Phase 2: CVI-SIM Virtual Reality Progress Videos
We continue our partnership with the charity CVI Scotland, and for the 2020/21 academic year worked with some exceptional students from the Department of Computer Studies, to develop our work creating simulations of the experience of CVI. Previous work has been explained with a video on the Dorsal Stream Dysfunction CVI Experience page.
The project originally started in 2018 and is an evolving process. We want to share the work with you as it develops.
The short film below explains the purpose of this project.
Narrated by Gordon Dutton
December 2020 – Introduction to the VR Landscape & Classroom
In the film below we introduce you to our new project. Before moving onto a virtual classroom created for us, we take a tour of the virtual landscape, seeing some of the functions that have been designed to show brain processes affected by CVI. In our virtual classroom, we show you how some to the settings, which are CVIs, alter the experience of the classroom, due to reduced visual acuity, reduced contrast sensitivity, lower visual field impairment and severe simultanagnostic vision.
Narrated by Andrew Blaikie
February 2021 – Clutter and noise interfere with learning!
In this video we use the VR classrooms and programme to show you how incredibly challenging learning in a classroom can be for a child with CVI, especially when there is clutter and noise.
We also look at a completely clutter free environment, called the tent room, and see the difference it makes to vision, by directly comparing the two different environments. Please note, the film is a little bit jerky due to the controls. This project is a work in progress and we are sharing updates, rather than the finished product.
Narrated by Andrew Blaikie
March 2021 – Special Needs Classroom & Lower Visual Field Impairment
In this video we introduce you to our special needs VR classroom, developed from film made for this project from a real special needs classroom. In the classroom we look at what is low down, and the challenges created for children with lower visual field impairments. How many children in a special needs school do you think may have a lower visual field impairment? Based on growing research, we think it might be quite a lot.
Narrated by Andrew Blaikie
November 2021
We have recently been asked to create a number of videos for different conferences, with several requests to make them available as a teaching and learning resource.
The videos below were made for slightly different audiences, so you may need to watch them to select the one most suitable for your needs. We show why different cerebral visual impairments require different approaches, and how learning suffers if visual needs are not met. Each features a one-minute clip from a film of two dogs on a beach we have previously used. The first three videos consider CVI in relation to both mainstream and complex needs children.
These, and all CVI Scotland videos, are free to share and download. Click here for download instructions.
10 Minute Lay Version Suitable for any audience including those who have never heard of CVI. Narrated by Gordon Dutton
Click here to watch the 10 minute lay version with subtitles.
Suitable for those with an understanding of technical terms used in relation to vision and the brain. Narrated by Andrew Blaikie
Click here to watch the 7 minute technical version with subtitles.
This uses lay language but is quite fast paced. Narrated by Gordon Dutton
Click here to watch the 5 minute lay version with subtitles.
January 2022
In a recorded interview as part of a presentation, Gordon Dutton was asked to explain more about the dynamic nature of CVI described and simulated in these videos. This four-minute video is a recording of his answer.
Univesrity of Edinburgh
This video is an excerpt from Gordon Dutton’s presentation at the CVI Art Exhibition. Click here to view the full presentation.
June 2022 – Hemianopia (Without Vision in One Half)
Using CVI-SIM to show what hemianopia is, and the important differences to understand if hemianopia is from birth or acquired, and how it can be successfully supported.
Narrated by Gordon Dutton
Click here to watch this video with subtitles.
October 2022 CVI & Severe Difficulties Learning
In this video we use CVI-SIM to take you on a journey through the visual world of a child affected by a combination of cerebral visual impairments (CVIs). We start with typical vision and one by one add reduced visual acuity, then reduced contrast sensitivity then a severe lower visual field impairment, as many in this group have. But these CVIs alone do not explain the profound difficulties learning these children have. Using our simulator we add dorsal stream dysfunction and see the enormous impact it has on vision, from the video “It seems like nothing makes sense, but this is their world, this is their normal.” Dorsal stream dysfunction we know can be pacified, and through CVI-SIM we show you how.
Narrated by Andrew Blaikie
Click here to watch this video with subtitles.