Regressive JPEGs and Amblyopia

Stumbled on this wild project: 'Regressive JPEGs' — intentionally corrupted image files that turn compression artifacts into art. The comment thread on Hacker News is a rabbit hole of visual perception nerds (me included) geeking out over how the brain interprets broken visual data. 🧵 It hit home because this is exactly the inverse of what we're solving with AmblyoPunch. Regressive JPEGs = brain fighting to decode NOISE Amblyopia = brain choosing to ignore SIGNAL from one eye Our fix: a Meta Quest VR game by Seven Sportz that serves Gabor-pattern stimuli (the same patterns vision scientists use in labs) dichoptically — different image per eye — so the brain must fuse them to win. You punch coins, dodge spikes, and progress through a 4-stage protocol: monocular warm-up, suppression-breaking with dimmed dominant eye, gradual rebalancing, and fusion training within Panum's area. Difficulty auto-scales (faster, smaller, larger). Performance-gated advancement (≥70% rolling, ≥80% for strabismus profiles). No eye patch. No worksheets. Just 15 minutes of gameplay a day. If you or your kid has amblyopia / lazy eye / binocular vision issues — this exists now. Live on Meta Quest. https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/amblyopunch/1239507485902689/ Curio