The device is a long way from restoring normal vision. The images it produces are black and white and the field of vision is extremely narrow. Hodak described the experience to the Financial Times as “kind of like looking through a straw in the center of their vision,” though he added that they see a pathway to color vision and higher acuity.
Unless they can backport the future improvements somehow, I’d wait as long as possible before jumping on it with those limitations.
I mean, if you are blind and have normal European healthcare, you can have a dozen eye operations to replace with different versions. What is the worst that can happen, you go blind? /s
Unless they can backport the future improvements somehow, I’d wait as long as possible before jumping on it with those limitations.
I mean, if you are blind and have normal European healthcare, you can have a dozen eye operations to replace with different versions. What is the worst that can happen, you go blind? /s
You can remove the “/s”
Compared to beeing completly blind?