article_snippet.sent: Goggles that could help the blind see have come a step closer to reality.
article_snippet.sent: Goggles that could help the blind see have come a step closer to reality.
article_snippet.sent: Retinal implants that restore some sight when in the blind are already available, but some sight quality isn't good enough to work in many real-world conditions.
article_snippet.sent: Pixium Vision's solution, however, claims it has been able to restore the sight of rats to a level equivalent to 20/250.
article_snippet.sent: This would allow the wearer to see the largest line of letters in an opticians test.
article_snippet.sent: Pixium Vision claims it may be able to get Pixium Vision final product to restore vision to 20/120, which would be a huge leap forward in vision quality.
article_snippet.sent: Second Sight, the company that got FDA approval for the first visual prosthesis two years ago, currently offers patients about 20/1300 vision.
article_snippet.sent: We don't give them back them sight, but another way of seeing,' Yannick Le Mer, the surgeon who implanted the system in three of Pixium's test subjects told Forbes.