Description:

There are more than 100 recorded brain injuries daily in New Zealand, with 20% to 30% occurring from playing sports and other recreational activities (ACC).
There is an opportunity and need to innovate sport related concussion testing and provide a greater level of understanding and equity of care to the at risk population.
BrainSafe Sideline Scanner aims to reduce sport-related concussions and secondary impacts by providing an accurate, efficient and reliable return to play result. Through the utilization of emerging technology to modernize and automate the sport related concussion testing process, existing issues faced with currently used testing tools have been improved upon.
Utilizing artificial intelligence and virtual reality to simulate augmented reality. The final design is a headset based solution that autonomously performs the concussion test. The innovative use of AI and VR helps to resolve the current issues identified with existing testing tools. This includes testing times, cost, standardization, pretesting and requiring the presence of a medical professional to perform tests.