--- description: Find out why Luminopia is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: Luminopia: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6dd86d8f65c10e7/698a41a247ca381d0e3bb423/best-inventions-2023-luminopia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Ditching the Eye Patch Luminopia by [Jeffrey Kluger](/author/jeffrey-kluger/) ## Jeffrey Kluger Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large  Some 3% of all children have amblyopia—or “lazy eye”—meaning one eye’s input is processed clearly by the brain, leaving the other out of focus. A traditional treatment is unideal: wearing a patch over the good eye at least a few hours a day for weeks or longer to retrain the weaker eye. Scott Xiao, co-founder and CEO of [Luminopia](https://luminopia.com/about-us "undefined"), created an alternative: a virtual reality headset that can display cartoons with different portions of the image shown to each eye that are blurred or eliminated, forcing the brain to better combine the input from both eyes. Children need to use the headset for just one hour a day, six days a week; vision can improve in as little as three months. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324356/luminopia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324356/luminopia/"},"headline":"Ditching the Eye Patch","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:22:33.701Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324356/luminopia/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6dd86d8f65c10e7/698a41a247ca381d0e3bb423/best-inventions-2023-luminopia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"creator":"Jeffrey Kluger","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6dd86d8f65c10e7/698a41a247ca381d0e3bb423/best-inventions-2023-luminopia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324356/luminopia/","name":"Ditching the Eye Patch"}}]}] ```