{
  "id": 18385852,
  "title": "From Dreambeans to binocular vision: my journey as a developer with amblyopia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/de-dreambeans-a-la-vision-binoculaire-mon-parcours-de-dev-atteint",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-05T22:17:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ashish_624379625242c5d263/de-dreambeans-a-la-vision-binoculaire-mon-parcours-de-dev-atteint-damblyopie-2b6j"
  },
  "original_language": "fr",
  "account": "A developer with amblyopia, a condition where one eye doesn't work properly due to the brain suppressing its image, has reported a remarkable recovery. For six years, the developer, who worked at Dreambeans, a web agency in Lille, coded with one eye, literally. After trying various treatments as a child, he was told it was too late to improve. However, in March 2023, he stumbled upon research by Levi, Li, and Ding on residual plasticity in adults and the concept of dichoptic therapy. Using a Meta Quest 2 headset and a platform that provides daily dichoptic exercises, he was able to recover some vision in his \"blind\" eye and even perceive depth in 3D. His progress was tracked through metrics and graphs, and he reported significant improvements in his coding experience and daily life, including catching a ball thrown by his daughter.",
  "summary": "From Dreambeans to binocular vision: my journey as a developer with amblyopia 🧑💻👁️🥽 I spent six years coding with an eye that was useless. Literally. My brain had decided, somewhere between the ages of three and five, that the image coming from my left eye was noise. So it cut it off. Deleted it. Like a git reset --hard on a branch you no longer want to merge.…",
  "key_points": [
    "Dreambeans, developer with amblyopia, coded with one useless eye for six years",
    "Brain, like git reset --hard, cut off due to amblyopia, a software issue",
    "March 2023, debugged using left eye capable of distinguishing forms, reactivated blind eye"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}