How mobile games are tracking vision degradation in patients

In 2016, Gasser and Sahel met, and Sahel pitched his idea for a gaming tool to more frequently monitor his patients who had chronic diseases of aging. The result of that meeting was the first Tilak Healthcare product: OdySight, an app Gasser describes as a highly-engaging, clinically-validated, medical mobile game to help monitor patients with chronic eye diseases of aging such as AMD and diabetic retinopathy. Gasser is CEO of Tilak and hails from the video game industry. Before cofounding Tilak he was Studio Director at Gameloft Madrid, a company developing and editing videogames. While Gasser brings the video game expertise, his co-founder, Jose-Alain Sahel brings the medical expertise. Dr. Sahel is chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is a scientific co-founder on several companies focusing on innovative vision…