The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
banner
seeingwithsound.bsky.social
The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
@seeingwithsound.bsky.social
The vOICe? OIC? Oh I see! Think different: vision for the blind through sound-guided mental imagery. https://x.com/seeingwithsound, [email protected]

https://www.seeingwithsound.com
The Global Bionic Vision Community on Discord currently has 90 members.
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
(video captured on Meta Quest 2) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
(screenshot) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop Streamer, while comfortably lying down; YouTube exercise video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug...
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The 5 essential elements of an iBCIs sandbox.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Making the case for sandboxes in implantable neurotechnologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social on #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech, #iBCI
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"#BCI #NeuroTech
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
AFAIK he first introduced this catchy term at the 2019 BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, no? At 17:05 into videocast.nih.gov/watch=31691 and discussed on Twitter/X at x.com/mameister4/s... + slightly adapted by me there. Of course I'd expect you both to discuss these things/challenges!
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
ChatGPT: "The vOICe evolves with the web; Neuralink Blindsight expires with its electrodes." chatgpt.com/share/690a5d...
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
As long as (even old) web standards remain supported, The vOICe vision BCI has unlimited lifetime as a web app and will run on future smartglasses & headsets that do not even exist yet www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... How future-proof will your Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be? #BCI
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Current state-of-the-art? This was the state of the art for The vOICe vision BCI peer-reviewed and published back in 1992 for several combinations of parameter settings in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution www.seeingwithsound.com/vbme6.html There's more than brain implants...
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
ReVision Implant's aim with their brain implant in visual cortex is 4096 - 16384 pixels (electrodes?). No mention of seizure risk. www.revision-implant.com/technology
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In Android XR, there's an APK for that, and no need for a phone or PC www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-a... by @ianhamilton.net via @skarredghost.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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...
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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
October 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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.
October 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
(video, Russian news) November 18 2018 vk.com/wall24877879... Утро России, on The vOICe vision BCI.
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Utterly useless, but the Meta Quest 2 headset can now show and sound your avatar with The vOICe vision BCI web app running in its browser (Meta unfortunately still blocks access to the live passthrough camera view) www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web...
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Revolutionizing brain‒computer interfaces: overcoming biocompatibility challenges in implantable neural interfaces jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #BCI #NeuroTech
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
October 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM