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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2m

Revisiting the mental imagery debate: New evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Revisiting the mental imagery debate: New evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging

In this viewpoint letter, I critically examine the longstanding debate regarding the nature of mental imagery—specifically the tension between depicti…

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 36m

Where can one find the Morgan Stanley report titled "Neuralink: AI in your brAIn"? www.morganstanley.com/search?text=...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 12h

Neuralink captures Wall Street's eye, sparks debate over brain interfaces and future "neuro elite" thedebrief.org/neuralink-ca... by @chrissynewton.bsky.social ; this reads much like a #Neuralink infomercial; #BCI #NeuroTech

Neuralink Captures Wall Street’s Eye, Sparks Debate Over Brain Interfaces and Future “Neuro Elite”

A new report examines how Wall Street is turning its attention toward deep tech and bioscience, specifically BCI companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2d

Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation (in mice) www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #crossmodal #integration #plasticity #V1 #neuroscience

Frontiers | Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation

IntroductionThe functional connectivity topology of the primary visual cortex (V1) shapes sensory processing and cross-modal integration, yet how different s...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h

#iFixit: There's groundbreaking waveguide tech inside #Meta's $800 #AR glasses but don’t count on fixing them www.ifixit.com/News/113543/... "Don't count on fixing anything in these $800 glasses"

There’s Groundbreaking Waveguide Tech Inside Meta’s $800 AR Glasses But Don’t Count on Fixing Them

Imagine an AR repair guide that follows along with your repair. We’re excited by the possibility, but you won’t be able to fix these glasses just yet.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h

Space impacts temporal processing via a visual-dependent spatially organized neural architecture doi.org/10.1523/jneu... "spatial features affected the temporal processing of sighted but not blind people, regardless of age."

Space impacts temporal processing via a visual-dependent spatially organized neural architecture

Establishing the temporal relationship between stimuli challenges the brain, requiring some tolerance for asynchronies to form coherent representations. Based on the theory of implicit causal inferenc...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... #multisensory #crossmodal #BCI #NeuroTech

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiologic...

Intra-cortical microstimulation (ICMS) is a technique to provide tactile sensations for a somatosensory brain-machine interface (BMI). A viable BMI must function within the rich, multisensory environm...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h

The #aphantasia-#hyperphantasia spectrum www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @bencenanay.bsky.social; mental imagery

The Aphantasia-Hyperphantasia spectrum

Research into imagery vividness in recent year has been predominantly about the difference between aphantasics and the rest of us (or, more rarely, be…

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h

"Hearing car" detects sounds for safer driving - AI and microphones are helping vehicles detect unseen hazards spectrum.ieee.org/fraunhofer-h... "With EV adoption rising, automakers began to see why ears mattered as much as eyes."

AI-Powered Microphones Boost Vehicle Safety

What happens when a car can hear as well as see? Dive into the world of multisensory vehicles with Fraunhofer's latest innovation.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h

My proposed hypothesis: visual-to-auditory sensory substitution does not give functional vision to the totally blind. Please tear apart.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h

Many years ago I did some work on blind accessibility in VR using VRML and X3D www.seeingwithsound.com/winvrml.htm Beware that many of the old external links are now broken, but the completely general interface with The vOICe for Windows still works.

Accessible VRML/X3D for the Blind - The vOICe

Orientation and mobility in 3D virtual environments

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h

(YouTube) From LSD to AI with Switzerland's brain explorers www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnA... via @trackingactions.bsky.social

From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h

#RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for blind and low-vision people arxiv.org/html/2510.06... by @xinyc.bsky.social @djain.bsky.social et al.; #blind #a11y of #VR using #LLM #AI

More information at bsky.app/profile/xiny...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe the gut has free will? ;-)

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

Or would you rather get a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Think different: The vOICe or Neuralink Blindsight

Why The vOICe vision BCI for the blind can likely defeat Neuralink Blindsight (and other brain implants for restoring vision)

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

For noninvasive pixel-level (low-level) and semantic (high-level) vision for the totally blind:

- #AI compatibility mode for The vOICe for Android www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#...

- #AI compatibility mode for The vOICe web app www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web...

Augmented Reality for the Blind? There's an app for that: The vOICe for Android

Vision Technology for the Blind with Talking Color Identifier, Talking Compass, Talking Face Detector & Talking Locator

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

Coastal town sight-seeing using The vOICe blindza.com/voice_coasta... Can the girlfriend now be replaced by The vOICe's AI compatibility mode + AI scene description by Google Gemini Live or ChatGPT screen sharing?

BlindZA.com - Coastal town sight-seeing using the vOICe

blindza.com

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

To ChatGPT: How does LLM image description work? How does that complement low-level (pixel-level) scene description for the blind through visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? chatgpt.com/share/68e689... #blindness #blind #a11y #AI #LLM scene description

ChatGPT - LLM image description process

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

(YouTube) The science of imagination: Away from the here and now (Part 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUdc... via @champalimaudr.bsky.social

7. The Science of Imagination: Away from the Here and Now (Part 1)

YouTube video by Champalimaud Foundation

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 1d

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I was just prodding ChatGPT on related concepts in providing complementary pixel-level (low-level) and semantic (high-level) vision to the totally blind bsky.app/profile/seei...

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

Grok's thoughts on this at x.com/grok/status/...

Grok on X: "@seeingwithsound LLM image description uses vision encoders (like ViT) to turn pixels into embeddings, bridged to language models for semantic captions. It complements pixel-level sensory substitution (e.g., The vOICe) by adding high-level context—like "a dog under a table"—to raw soundscapes" / X

@seeingwithsound LLM image description uses vision encoders (like ViT) to turn pixels into embeddings, bridged to language models for semantic captions. It complements pixel-level sensory substitution (e.g., The vOICe) by adding high-level context—like "a dog under a table"—to raw soundscapes

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

To ChatGPT: How does LLM image description work? How does that complement low-level (pixel-level) scene description for the blind through visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? chatgpt.com/share/68e689... #blindness #blind #a11y #AI #LLM scene description

ChatGPT - LLM image description process

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 1d

I love that analogy! Do you perhaps have (or know of) a paper about it?

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andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · Aug 30

These LLM AIs are all suffering from a sort of synthetic Anton's syndrome - they have absolutely no capacity for spatial experience (or simulation of it) and yet are unaware of it - they have all the "high level" stuff you get from seeing, so why not behave as though it's *all* really there?

Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Aug 28

oh, nice write up in The Register about Illusion Illusions:

www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/v...

original paper here:

arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613

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