The eyes have it in Panama City

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY PANAMA CITY, Fla. - The Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) at Panama City will begin using never-before-used eyewear technologies in June to track blood flow and oxygen levels in the brain during training. The glasses and headgear monitors biological conditions. The off-the-shelf eyewear, called Tobii Pro Glasses 2, monitors a user’s retina location and its accompanying headgear, called Artinis Brite23, tracks blood flow and oxygen levels in the brain during training. NEDU conducts biomedical research and saturation dives. It will be using the new technology to measure the effects of diving, which can take divers hundreds of feet deep and that could cause physical problems. Tobii and Artinis are commercial products developed by European-based companies, and used in tracking the eye in video game circles. It’s the first time that NEDU researchers are using the technology to collect data. Artinis is wireless, and the headgear assists the Navy by keeping “the edge” in human performance. “Hopefully in 10 years or so the Navy will have a “really good picture” of what “goes on inside the brain and body” as a result of diving, breathing different gases and changing temperature levels during dives, NEDU research psychologist Lt. Jennifer Jewell told the News Herald. (Source: Panama City News Herald 04/12/18)