This is awesome for people with the right type of blindness. Â
However, what really excites me personally is that it's only a short amount of time until these are better than a regular human retina. Â They'll have Bluetooth 6.0 (or whatever) and overlay images over what you're seeing (think Google Glass). Â The image quality will be better than any screen, so say good bye to phone screens, computer screens, TV screens, movie screens.
In fact, they will be able to completely subsume everything you see. Â That is, such an implantable device will be able to completely replace what you see with a virtual environment. Â Imagine Call of Duty where you're not looking through a screen into a virtual world, but you're just looking around in a virtual world without any intermediary screen between you and that world.
Of course, this is definitely a technology I wouldn't want to be an early adopter of…what with the surgery on your eyeballs.
A distinct advantage of the Alpha IMS is that, unlike other similar devices such as the recently released Argus II, it does not rely on an external camera. Instead, light is detected inside the eye, enabling the patient to look around by moving his eyes rather than the head. It also has a much higher resolution grid and is implanted under the retina, allowing the middle layer of the retina to process the input before it is sent to the visual cortex.
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Retinal Implant Alpha IMS Brings Sight to Blind in New Study (w/video)
Retina Implant AG, a German developer of subretinal implants to help restore sight of people with retinitis pigmentosa, has announced publication of result
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