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The vOICe vision BCI will be around after Neuralink Blindsight is long obsolete https://github.com/seeingwithsound?achievement=arctic-code-vault-contributor&tab=achievements
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To ChatGPT: At the time of writing, there is not a single mass media article comparing Neuralink Blindsight with The vOICe. Why? #BCI

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To ChatGPT: Why does it take Neuralink so long to even come up with a compelling monkey video showcasing the promise of their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind? https://chatgpt.com/share/69384562-e9a4-8004-89f3-f472209351e0
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(YouTube, #AI #slop) Neuralink 2026: The Year Humans Become Digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ArS-CBIjE Blindsight? Bette…

An electrode-based #Neuralink #Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex will not scale to large numbers of blind patients nor to normal-like vision beyond showing a few rough edges

Consensus AI: Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? https://consensus.app/search/why-will-the-voice-sensory-substitution-defeat-neu/dWrnJDjIR9uP48YkWTX_Ag/

Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? - Consensus
Restoring vision in blind individuals can be approached through invasive brain implants (like Neuralink or visual prostheses) or non-invasive sensory substitution devices (SSDs) such as The vOICe, which converts visual information into sound. Each method has distinct strengths and limitations. Current evidence suggests that sensory substitution devices like The vOICe offer unique advantages in safety, flexibility, and practical visual rehabilitation, but do not fully replicate natural vision.

Disclaimer: it's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that the invasive implantable alternatives are so bad #BCI

(IEEE Spectrum) 11 Amazing engineering events in 2026: Brain chip helps blind people see https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-technology-2026 on Elon Musk and Neuralink Blindsight: "some experts worry he is overpromising on the quality of the brain-computer interface";

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(YouTube) Neuralink overview, Fall 2025 #BCI

(LinkedIn) Generative human intelligence for images anyone? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_the-voice-for-android-apps-on-google-play-activity-7413499467846500352-sfcJ

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play | Peter Meijer
What is sensory substitution? When I speak to you and say, "Imagine a rising bright line", and you "see" a rising bright line in your mind's eye, that's mental imagery guided by sound, a form of sensory substitution. The vOICe vision BCI generalizes this such that it works for all images. And yes, being software-based, it is already in "mass production" well ahead of any Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, with well over 500,000 cumulative installs from Google Play https://lnkd.in/dGaF2br More…

Stare-down between a female blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses and a male blind recipient of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (AI-generated video clip). For the serious part, visit https://artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

ChatGPT about a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for people born blind: "For early-blind people, a Neuralink-style cortical visual prosthesis is very unlikely to be meaningfully available in the 2020s or 2030s." https://chatgpt.com/share/694e5e8a-ee78-8004-91fc-9ed48e261…

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"A high acuity is trivially obtained at the expense of field of view through suitable enlarging optics, so whenever a high acuity is claimed for a visual prosthesis one must also check if the corresponding field of view is better than tunnel vision." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink

Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…

While Elon Musk is pushing hard to get the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant out, The vOICe vision BCI can grow organically, no matter how long it takes https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Applied psychohistory

Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training & support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOIC…

The hoopla around Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant is reminiscent of the media storm around the Dobelle brain implant back in 2002, at the time making global front-page headlines on CNN and elsewhere https://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/06/13/bionic.eye/

To ChatGPT: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. https://chatgpt.com/share/6970cd96-60f4-8004-8b95-5fb1f3d58cf8 At …

To Elon Musk's xAI: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. At 16,000: N x N = 36.5 x 36.5 https://x.com/i/grok/share/72bac4fcff5

To ChatGPT: How does ReVision Implant stack up to Neuralink Blindsight? #BCI

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(PDF on Zenodo) White paper: Comparing The vOICe vision BCI for the blind with Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision #BCI

To Perplexity AI: Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training and support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind. Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOICe. https://www.perplexity.ai/s…

The market opportunities for invasive visual prostheses such as the much hyped Neuralink Blindsight brain implant are slowly eroding, in favor of smart glasses with AI scene description, talking OCR and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution.

Do you have aphantasia? If not, try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
The vOICe, the free and noninvasive Neuralink Blindsight alternative https://…

Bees, blindsight, and consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00285-2

Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…

Google's AI mode does a reasonable job of comparing Neuralink Blindsight with The vOICe https://share.google/aimode/5KEGhQ1znivyJWaeN Whether The vOICe resolution is limited compared to direct neural stimulation remains to be seen.

(LinkedIn) As of today, not only the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant has FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, but also ReVision Implant https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frederikceyssens_with-great-pleasure-im-announcing-that…

To ChatGPT: Compare Neuralink Blindsight, Revision Implant, Cortigent Orion and The vOICe, and give a market outlook for all, both short-term and long-term. https://chatgpt.com/share/6962abca-0d54-8004-9735-87baf0ff98b8

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(YouTube) Samarth by Hyundai: The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoT3eff0&t=692s Will Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision ever work for congenitally blind people? Probably not.

(YouTube) Samarth by Hyundai: The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoT3eff0&t=692s
Here wearing the heat-resistant Vuzix M400 Android smart glasses. Will Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant or Cortigent Orion ever work for people born bli…