By News Staff on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Portable eye exam equipment aims to reduce barriers in rural healthcare Texas A&M graduates are developing a headset-style eye exam device designed to bring eye care to more patients.

By Emma Lawson, Texas A&M University Division of Marketing and CommunicationsAround 75% of American adults need vision correction, but access to eye care remains uneven, particularly in rural communities and for patients with mobility limitations.

To help close those gaps, Dr. Nick Panzo and Dr. Hamza Memon, graduates from the Engineering Medicine (EnMed) program offered by the Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, are developing portable eye exam equipment about the size of a virtual reality headset.