Seeing Into the Future

The next generation of visual prosthetics could enable people who've lost their sight to find a door—or even recognize a friend again.

By Nikhil Swaminathan
Aug 19, 2014 3:48 PMNov 12, 2019 4:46 AM
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From top left: What a mouse would naturally see; two simulations of the output from Nirenberg's retinal prosthetic making use of neural code; and the view with a current retinal implant (bottom right).

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