{"id":340888,"date":"2017-05-15T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1489476"},"modified":"2017-05-15T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:37:23","slug":"revive-is-a-vr-solution-for-diagnosing-adhd-built-by-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/revive-is-a-vr-solution-for-diagnosing-adhd-built-by-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"reVive is a VR solution for diagnosing ADHD built by high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first team to go onstage at the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon showed off\u00a0reVIVE, a virtual reality solution to diagnosing ADHD.\u00a0The team of three high school juniors wanted to create a solution that would simplify the lengthy and expensive process of diagnosing the illness.<\/p>\n

The team tells me that ADHD normally takes six to nine months to diagnose and that process alone can cost\u00a0patients thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

The reVIVE tool is composed of three different tests that gauge the user\u2019s motor skills, sustained concentration and reaction time. Users are asked to perform tasks like navigating a maze, touching colored objects as they light up certain colors and standing still within a defined space. The team created a scoring system to measure a user\u2019s performance that will allow medical professionals to gain a clearer picture of their situation within minutes.<\/p>\n

Akshaya Dinesh, 17;\u00a0Sowmya Patapati, 16; and\u00a0Amulya Balakrishnan, 17, built the virtual reality app for\u00a0the HTC Vive using Unity. The team of New Jersey high school students met and became friends at the hackathon. Balakrishnan and Patapati work\u00a0with the organization\u00a0#BUILTBYGIRLS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really wanted to quantify ADHD diagnoses,\u201d said Dinesh \u201cWhen you\u2019re immersed in a 360 environment, patients\u00a0experience the environment as if they\u2019re really there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team isn\u2019t trying to replace the role of therapists\u00a0when it comes to treatment, but they believe that the app can serve as a telemedicine tool, alerting a user\u2019s therapist to their latest performance inside the app, while analyzing the data over time thanks to IBM Watson.<\/p>\n

Medical diagnosing and treatment\u00a0have already proven to be a major use case for virtual reality. Companies like MindMaze<\/a> have already achieved unicorn status catering their VR solutions directly to medical professionals. The team\u00a0believes that\u00a0diagnosing illnesses is one of\u00a0\u201cthe best use cases possible for VR.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" The first team to go onstage at the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon showed off\u00a0reVIVE, a virtual reality solution to diagnosing ADHD.\u00a0The team of three high school juniors wanted to create a solution that would simplify the lengthy and expensive process of diagnosing the illness.
\nThe team tells me that ADHD normally takes six to nine months to diagnose and that process alone can cost\u00a0patients… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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