{"id":57370,"date":"2017-05-14T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/vivid-vision-raises-2-2-million-to-build-vr-tools-to-treat-lazy-eye"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:11","slug":"vivid-vision-raises-2-2-million-to-build-vr-tools-to-treat-lazy-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/vivid-vision-raises-2-2-million-to-build-vr-tools-to-treat-lazy-eye","title":{"rendered":"Vivid Vision raises $2.2 million to build VR tools to treat \u2018lazy eye\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vivid-vision-raises-2-2-million-to-build-vr-tools-to-treat-lazy-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seevividly.com\/\">Vivid Vision<\/a> said today it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as \u201clazy eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Vivid Vision raised the money from SoftTech VC\u2019s Jeff Clavier, as well as The Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund), CRCM Ventures, SOS Ventures, Anorak Ventures, and Liquid 2 Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm cofounded by Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Joe Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s VR treatment for binocular vision disorders is now available at more than 90 clinics across the world. More than 10 percent of Americans suffer from one or more binocular vision disorders, such as amblyopia, strabismus, or convergence insufficiency. These disorders, commonly known as \u201clazy eye\u201d and \u201ccrossed eyes,\u201d can cause issues with driving and playing sports, and can even limit career choices.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/05\/11\/vivid-vision-raises-2-2-million-to-build-vr-tools-to-treat-lazy-eye\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/05\/11\/vivid-vision-raises-2&#45...-lazy-eye\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as \u201clazy eye.\u201d San Francisco-based Vivid Vision raised the money from SoftTech VC\u2019s Jeff Clavier, as well as The Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund), CRCM Ventures, SOS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370\/revisions\/57559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}