A wireless brain implant designed to restore artificial vision has been successfully implanted in a third blind participant as part of an ongoing clinical study in the United States. The procedure was carried out at Rush University Medical Center, marking another step in testing the scalability of the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) system.
The ICVP device bypasses the eye entirely. Instead of relying on damaged retinas or optic nerves, it directly stimulates the brain’s visual cortex to generate patterns of artificial sight. The system uses multiple miniaturized wireless stimulators implanted into the brain, each carrying electrodes that deliver controlled electrical pulses.
Ghennon on
Can’t wait to pay a subscription for basic body function
Cooz78 on
crazy how smart these scientists are
one day we will have 360 degrees vision implant thx to these guys
JustAtelephonePole on
But boss, I don’t want to kill cockroaches anymore….
TipsyRoger on
Can I have „special subscription“ for looking through hot chicks dress?
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The future of VR, bypass the eyes and stream that shit right to the brain.
Imicus on
Oh cool, I can’t wait for unskippable adverts streamed straight to my brain
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Just so no one reads too much into this, visual cortex stimulation produces a sense of a brief flash of light in a particular area. electric stimulation can’t produce fine or color, and will never be able to as the neurons are too mixed up. Great for blind people, useless for the rest of us.
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Reminds me of Robert J Sawyer’s Wake Watch Wonder series
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As easy as it is to be cynical with for-profit medical corporations, „curing“ blindness, to include complete eye loss, is amazing.
Yes, the cyberpunk reality is entirely possible, but this is truly an optimistic event.
And I’m a cynical bastard through and through.
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A wireless brain implant designed to restore artificial vision has been successfully implanted in a third blind participant as part of an ongoing clinical study in the United States. The procedure was carried out at Rush University Medical Center, marking another step in testing the scalability of the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) system.
The ICVP device bypasses the eye entirely. Instead of relying on damaged retinas or optic nerves, it directly stimulates the brain’s visual cortex to generate patterns of artificial sight. The system uses multiple miniaturized wireless stimulators implanted into the brain, each carrying electrodes that deliver controlled electrical pulses.
Can’t wait to pay a subscription for basic body function
crazy how smart these scientists are
one day we will have 360 degrees vision implant thx to these guys
But boss, I don’t want to kill cockroaches anymore….
Can I have „special subscription“ for looking through hot chicks dress?
The future of VR, bypass the eyes and stream that shit right to the brain.
Oh cool, I can’t wait for unskippable adverts streamed straight to my brain
Just so no one reads too much into this, visual cortex stimulation produces a sense of a brief flash of light in a particular area. electric stimulation can’t produce fine or color, and will never be able to as the neurons are too mixed up. Great for blind people, useless for the rest of us.
Reminds me of Robert J Sawyer’s Wake Watch Wonder series
As easy as it is to be cynical with for-profit medical corporations, „curing“ blindness, to include complete eye loss, is amazing.
Yes, the cyberpunk reality is entirely possible, but this is truly an optimistic event.
And I’m a cynical bastard through and through.