{"id":2121064,"date":"2025-10-28T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2121064"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:42:12","slug":"crunchyroll-anime-is-now-being-used-to-treat-lazy-eye-and-its-fda-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/crunchyroll-anime-is-now-being-used-to-treat-lazy-eye-and-its-fda-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Anime Is Now Being Used to Treat Lazy Eye \u2014 and It\u2019s Fda-Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">How ubiquitous is anime? It\u2019s now being used to treat lazy eye in children.<\/p>\n<p>Anime giant <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0251163\/\">Crunchyroll<\/a> has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia). This isn\u2019t just some random press release PR stunt: the therapy is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0088387\/\">Fda<\/a>-approved and doctor-prescribed.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, what is approved and prescribed is Luminopia\u2019s treatment, which straps a VR headset on kids and forces them watch TV for one hour a day, six days a week. Crunchyroll anime is a new programming option, joining <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1074587\/\">Nickelodeon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0171371\/\">PBS Kids<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0058596\/\">Sesame Workshop<\/a> and, recently, hundreds of episodes of the original <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0168366\/\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> animated series. With the pre-existing lineup, it\u2019s actually a bit of a surprise that Crunchyroll took this long: Crunchyroll is a subsidiary of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0001799\/\">Sony<\/a>, and Sony (through its Sony Innovation Fund) is an investor in Luminopia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ubiquitous is anime? It\u2019s now being used to treat lazy eye in children. Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia). This isn\u2019t just some random press release PR stunt: the therapy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2121065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2121064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Crunchyroll-Anime-Is-Now-Being-Used-to-Treat-Lazy-Eye.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121066,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121064\/revisions\/2121066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}