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What would the world look like to someone with a bionic eye?
From MedicalXpress:
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The black and white images show visual distortions that might result from electric prostheses that enable vision by stimulating the retina. Credit: Ione Fine and Geoffrey Boynton / University of Washington
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Various sight recovery therapies are being developed by companies around the world, offering new hope for people who are blind. But little is known about what the world will look like to patients who undergo those procedures.
A new University of Washington study seeks to answer that question and offers visual simulations of what someone with restored vision might see. The study concludes that while important advancements have been made in the field, the vision provided by sight recovery technologies may be very different from what scientists and patients had previously assumed.
In a paper published Aug. 3 in the journal Philosophical Transactions B, UW researchers used simulations to create short videos that mimic what vision would be like after two different types of sight recovery therapies. Lead author Ione Fine, a UW associate professor of psychology, said the simulations are unprecedented.
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The black and white images show visual distortions that might result from electric prostheses that enable vision by stimulating the retina. Credit: Ione Fine and Geoffrey Boynton / University of Washington
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Various sight recovery therapies are being developed by companies around the world, offering new hope for people who are blind. But little is known about what the world will look like to patients who undergo those procedures.
A new University of Washington study seeks to answer that question and offers visual simulations of what someone with restored vision might see. The study concludes that while important advancements have been made in the field, the vision provided by sight recovery technologies may be very different from what scientists and patients had previously assumed.
In a paper published Aug. 3 in the journal Philosophical Transactions B, UW researchers used simulations to create short videos that mimic what vision would be like after two different types of sight recovery therapies. Lead author Ione Fine, a UW associate professor of psychology, said the simulations are unprecedented.
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