Developing and evaluating vision science methods require robust and efficient
tools for assessing their performance in various real-world scenarios. This
study presents a novel virtual reality (VR) simulation tool that simulates
real-world optical methods while giving high experimental control to the
experiment. The tool incorporates an experiment controller, to smoothly and
easily handle multiple conditions, a generic eye-tracking controller, that
works with most common VR eye-trackers, a configurable defocus simulator, and a
generic VR questionnaire loader to assess participants' behavior in virtual
reality. This VR-based simulation tool bridges the gap between theoretical and
applied research on new optical methods, corrections, and therapies. It enables
vision scientists to increase their research tools with a robust, realistic,
and fast research environment.

本研究提出了一种新颖的虚拟现实模拟工具，用于模拟真实光学方法，并在实验中提供高度的控制能力。该工具包括一个实验控制器，平滑和轻松处理多种条件，一个通用的眼动追踪控制器，适用于大多数常见的虚拟现实眼动追踪器，一个可配置的散焦模拟器，以及一个通用的虚拟现实问卷加载器，用于评估参与者在虚拟现实中的行为。这种基于虚拟现实的模拟工具弥合了新光学方法、矫正和治疗的理论研究与应用研究之间的差距。它使得视觉科学家能够增加他们的研究工具，获得一个稳健、逼真且快速的研究环境。