<story><title>A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials</title><url>https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/opening-eyes-to-a-frontier-in-vision-restoration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miki123211</author><text>Many people who are blind since birth (including myself) are pretty skeptical of such technologies. There&amp;#x27;s some research claiming that sight is almost useless if you get it past the age of five. An adult brain just can&amp;#x27;t make sense of those impulses.&lt;p&gt;Even if that wasn&amp;#x27;t true, re-learning how to do literally everything with sight would be extremely hard. With such low resolutions, it probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t even be worth it, considering how much modern tech makes our lifes easier.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still a huge thing for blind newborns and those who could see in the past, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials</title><url>https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/opening-eyes-to-a-frontier-in-vision-restoration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>This is an interesting area of research but I&amp;#x27;m skeptical of any world first claims. I remember a camera going to a visual area implant like... 15 years ago? And the guy got something like a hundred pixels. Not super practical but he could see things crossing his field of vision, locate certain shapes reliably etc. For a blind person that can be life changing for sure but it was a short term thing and a prototype.&lt;p&gt;Love seeing new research in this space but the science is nowhere near ready. Neuralink type stuff and other bleeding edge tech gets us like 5% of the to making this kind of thing practical for everyday life. By all means make it rain on researchers doing this stuff but don&amp;#x27;t expect miracles. The human vision system is incredible and we barely know how it works let alone how to imitate its functions. Fund basic research!!</text></comment>