The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺

Wonderful news: both The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app (PWA) work fine on the new Samsung Galaxy XR (Android XR) headset! Many thanks to @xrworkout.bsky.social for preliminary test results shared via Twitter/X (@xrworkoutlabs). #noninvasive #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

The Effects and Interactions of Epiretinal Electrical Stimulation Parameters on Direct and Network-Mediated Activation of Retinal Ganglion Cells Neuromodulation efficacy and efficiency hinge on optimization of stimulation parameters like charge, phase width (PW), pulse rate, and waveform shape. Studies have pursued optimization of stimulation ...

The effects and interactions of epiretinal electrical stimulation parameters on direct and network-mediated activation of retinal ganglion cells ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... retinal implant #NeuroTech

"Since the emphasis of this manuscript is on human clinical trials, we obtained the studies discussed herein through targeted searches on PubMed."
Meaningful review results from literature searches are highly sensitive to knowledgeable choices of search keywords and data sources.

Visual neurorestoration: An expert review of current strategies for restoring vision in humans www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

Apparently they have never heard of the Neuralink Blindsight cortical implant nor The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

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To ChatGPT: What will be the likely "Butcher number" of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex? Butcher number (Meister, 2019): the number ratio of damaged or killed neurons and stimulated or recorded neurons. chatgpt.com/share/6903cd... #BCI #NeuroTech

Snapshot of window with blinds.

Blind user of The vOICe: "Anyway I spun around a few times, and then tried to find the window again, and I did it! There's also another window behind my couch which is a bit longer." mas.to/@pixelate@tw...

Samsung Galaxy XR | AI-Powered XR Headset | Samsung US Meet Galaxy XR—your powerful yet lightweight headset for immersive experiences featuring conversational AI, a 4K micro-OLED display and external battery.

More information about the Samsung Galaxy XR headset at www.samsung.com/us/xr/galaxy... and at blog.google/products/and...

My bet: Neuralink will not dare do a full Neuralink Blindsight brain implant right away, but will in the name of a phased approach just implant some electrodes in easily reachable sections of V1 to show off that they can generate phosphenes (of course they can, that's the easy part).

The vOICe for Android is available from Google Play at play.google.com/store/apps/d... while The vOICe web app (PWA) runs inside your browser via www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web...

Wonderful news: both The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app (PWA) work fine on the new Samsung Galaxy XR (Android XR) headset! Many thanks to @xrworkout.bsky.social for preliminary test results shared via Twitter/X (@xrworkoutlabs). #noninvasive #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Do they? As long as they learn and understand that their study is under-powered and any associated publication at best a pilot study with potentially false positive (or false negative) outcomes, it's OK and cost-effective. I often see students reinventing the wheel, and that can be OK for learning.

I guess it is often not so much the publications that matter with small studies, but the student training: they learn a bunch of techniques, approaches, analysis types, etc despite those likely low-power false positives; teaching R&D to students who will later work on totally unrelated topics.

Vuzix Shield smart glasses

Apart from The vOICe web app that runs in your browser, there is The vOICe for Android, available from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d...
It runs on your Android smartphone and tablet, but also on Vuzix smart glasses apps.vuzix.com/app/the-voic...

Nowadays, with #AI realism increasing almost daily, every visual prosthesis announcement or report could be fake or over-the-top, except for The vOICe vision BCI, because you can try it yourself in your own home environment www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... See for yourself #BCI #blindness

Magic Leap Extends Partnership with Google Magic Leap showcases AR expertise in glasses prototype and extends its collaboration with Google, advancing the future of augmented reality.

Magic Leap showcases AR expertise in glasses prototype, extends Google partnership www.magicleap.com/newsroom/mag... #AR/#XR

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Mastering blind camera-hand coordination with The vOICe sensory substitution vision glasses [2]

(Russian) YouTube playlist at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1x... The vOICe звуковое зрение.

Maybe if and once it works for face recognition? No reports on that yet.

Video snapshot of blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses in Russia, 2018.

(video, Russian news) November 18 2018 vk.com/wall24877879... Утро России, on The vOICe vision BCI.

What is the business case? Blind people solving crossword puzzles and sudoku puzzles? Most regular print reading is done with greater efficiency and ease using talking OCR apps: these work for all causes of blindness, and also work for congenitally blind people.

Snapshot of window with blinds.

Blind user of The vOICe: "Anyway I spun around a few times, and then tried to find the window again, and I did it! There's also another window behind my couch which is a bit longer." mas.to/@pixelate@tw...

This is not quite true. One can debate what constitutes (form) vision, but The vOICe vision BCI definitely provides functional form vision as needed for reading letters and words. The video shows a blind Russian user in 2017 reading the word "АПТЕКА" (pharmacy) from a whiteboard.

Triangular Neural Synchronization Patterns in Visual Impairment: A Comprehensive Case Series Exploring Multi-node Network Dynamics and the Neural Triangle Index Background: Compensatory neural plasticity in visual impairment involves complex reorganization of multi-node networks that goes beyond conventional bilateral connection analysis. Triangular synchroni...

Triangular neural synchronization patterns in visual impairment: A comprehensive case series exploring multi-node network dynamics and the Neural Triangle Index (NTI) www.cureus.com/articles/409... "blind individuals can effectively 'see' via auditory substitution and echolocation"

Great tech, now testing investor patience.

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屏幕截图The vOICe网络应用

或者，您可以尝试 The vOICe 网络应用 (在您的浏览器中运行) www.seeingwithsound.cn/webvoice/web...

屏幕截图The vOICe为Android

I could use some help spreading the news in China...

The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 www.seeingwithsound.cn/The%20vOICe%...

学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v...

Note that we welcome independent scientific studies from all angles, without strings, non-disparagement clauses or NDAs attached www.seeingwithsound.cn/literature.htm In other words, if we don't like the results, so be it: we aim for facts, not advertorials.

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Neuralink Blindsight or The vOICe? Visualize the soundscapes ahead of source image appearance!

The vOICe vision BCI has its own universal visual language to convey images, but it might be that people who grew up with tonal languages like Mandarin Chinese are at an advantage in learning to interpret the image soundscapes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug...

学习从听去看

学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v... (platform-independent self-training manual)