The ViaOpta Apps

ViaOpta Daily

ViaOpta Daily is an app which has been specifically designed to help make life easier for patients with impaired vision.¹^a It acts as a ‘personal assistant’ to help you identify objects, places and more during your day-to-day activities.¹^a

The key features on this app help you to recognise text, colours and banknotes.²^a,b Just point your smartphone camera at real-world objects to receive descriptions or colour information, or take a photograph of some text and the app will read it out to you!²^b

ViaOpta Daily also allows you to send messages²^a and gives you access to instant video-call support.

ViaOpta Daily for Android

ViaOpta Daily for iPhone

Nav ViaOpta

Nav by ViaOpta is a navigation app designed to help people with low vision get from A to B.³^a It was created in partnership with visually impaired users.³^a

The app uses voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation to help you reach your destination.³^b You can use the app to give you your current position, simply by shaking your phone,³^b or use your phone to determine the right direction to take.³^b

You can also save your favourite locations and insert waypoints into your route to make it faster and more efficient.³^a

Nav by ViaOpta for Android

Nav by ViaOpta for iPhone

ViaOpta Simulator

ViaOpta Simulator is a vision simulator app for phone and tablet, designed to help healthcare professionals educate their patients about a range of eye conditions.⁴^a

ViaOpta Simulator for Android

ViaOpta Simulator for iPad

Using live video from a tablet camera, the healthcare professional can increase and decrease ‘severity’ by means of a slider control, to help the patient understand the visual impairments caused by certain eye diseases.⁵^a

These include:⁵^a

Age-related macular degeneration (wet and dry)
Retinal vein occlusion (central and branch)
Myopic choroidal neovascularisation
Diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic macular oedema
Glaucoma
Cataracts

References
ViaOpta Daily – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viaopta.daily&hl=en_ZA&gl=US AppAdvice Staff – ViaOpta Daily by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://appadvice.com/app/viaopta-daily/908408072. Nav by ViaOpta – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novartis.blind&hl=en_ZA&gl=US. ViaOpta Simulator – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novartis.visionsimulator&hl=en_ZA&gl=US. AppAdvice Staff – ViaOpta Simulator by Norvartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: appadvice.com/app/viaopta-simulator/778653985.

References

ViaOpta Daily – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viaopta.daily&hl=en_ZA&gl=US
AppAdvice Staff – ViaOpta Daily by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://appadvice.com/app/viaopta-daily/908408072.
Nav by ViaOpta – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novartis.blind&hl=en_ZA&gl=US.
ViaOpta Simulator – Apps on Google Play [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novartis.visionsimulator&hl=en_ZA&gl=US.
AppAdvice Staff – ViaOpta Simulator by Norvartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation [Internet]. n.d. [cited 2021 Feb 10]. Available from: appadvice.com/app/viaopta-simulator/778653985.