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Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

Science Corp. received CE mark such that they may start selling their PRIMA retinal implant in Europe (implant originally developed by Pixium in France) #blindness

Science Corp. Announces European Commercial Launch of PRIMA, the Only Treatment to Restore Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a Leading Cause of Blindness | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

How many people affected by AMD (age-related macular degeneration) will opt for the PRIMA retinal implant of Science Corp., given that it is mostly limited to restoring very slow reading after much training, while e.g. talking OCR is way faster and noninvasive? #AMD #blindness

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

I'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").
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Artificial Vision 2026 - International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, Aachen, Germany. Call for abstracts, deadline September 16, 2026 #BCI