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Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see

  • Written by: Matthew Petoe, Team Leader, Bionic Eye Psychophysics, Bionics Institute
imagePhosphenes are an experience of seeing light without light entering your eye. Bionic eye recipients use these to map out a visual scene. Eugene Peretz/Flickr, CC BY

Visual prostheses, or “bionic eyes”, promise to provide artificial vision to visually impaired people who could previously see. The devices consist of micro-electrodes...

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