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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Grok's thoughts on this at https://x.com/grok/status/1975956880364331013

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

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? https://chatgpt.com/share/68e689a7-e7ec-8004-bc80-2c9d8b00eba1 #blindness #blind #a11y #ai #llm scene description

ChatGPT - LLM image description process

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation (in mice) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1678035/full #crossmodal #integration #plasticity #V1 #neuroscience

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Bloomberg: Engineered protein that responds to light could help restore sight https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-07/engineered-protein-that-responds-to-light-could-help-restore-sight Archived at https://archive.ph/46Olz #optogenetics

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"The lack of transfer of learning from video game training to object recognition suggests that gamification-based rehabilitation for sight recovery technologies may have limited utility and may be most effective when targeted on learning specific visual tasks."

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Perceptual learning of prosthetic vision using video game training https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2810927 "A key limitation shared by both electronic and optogenetic sight recovery technologies is that they cause simultaneous rather than complementary firing within on- and […]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

PDF at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12496445/pdf/10.1177_24741264251376042.pdf

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Long-term outcomes and patient experiences with the Argus II retinal prosthesis system https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/24741264251376042 "Argus II provided potential benefits but also presented significant challenges related to device performance, cognitive demands, and long-term […]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Raster scanning can improve task performance in simulated prosthetic vision https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11193827 "Our findings underscore the importance of sequentially presenting visual information"; #bci #neurotech #blindness

A) Simultaneous stimulation. B) Dynamic stimulation. C) A demonstration of presentation methods at different refresh rates, without persistence. D) We used MRI scans from real subjects combined with plausible implants planning to derive a more realistic phosphene map. E) Tasks we used to evaluate simulated prosthetic vision.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Anyone who can ask the same question to Google's AI co-scientist? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-co-scientist "Is there any competition for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind?"

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

To Grok: Is there any competition for a #neuralink #blindsight brain implant for the blind? https://x.com/i/grok/share/i43wvJg7tGTDul0iUNbkiXXwh #blindness

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

OK, so you are an #ai? That don't impress me much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFLXayD6e8

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

One still needs to take ChatGPT 5 by the hand: Is there any competition for a #neuralink #blindsight brain implant for the blind? https://chatgpt.com/share/68e41030-6030-8004-8ac8-fa2c154d6133 #blindness

ChatGPT - Neuralink Blindsight competition

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

There may finally come a first peer-reviewed publication about Neuralink with human data, but for now still no details https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/startups/musks-neuralink-submits-brain-implant-patient-data-journal Submitted to New England Journal of Medicine; Neuralink: no […]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@neptune22222 On Twitter/X: "Natural-light activation (no external devices required), enabling functional object recognition and mobility in everyday environments." https://x.com/seeingwithsound/status/1974551267122053524 and "Patients regain the capacity to identify objects with different […]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@neptune22222 Some of the latest optogenetic therapies (from Zhongmou Therapeutics) do not need glasses at all: no external devices anymore.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 3d

An ultra-flexible neural electrode with bioelectromechanical compatibility and brain micromotion detection https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.202503101 #bci #neurotech

Matching brain tissue stiffness matters. "While thread-like implants (e.g., Neuralink's electrodes) […]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

The optimism of #optogenetics https://ophthalmologymanagement.com/issues/2025/julyaugust/the-optimism-of-optogenics/ "Vision rehabilitation: Patients receiving optogenetic therapy need training to interpret new visual signals, which requires specialized rehabilitation protocols." #blindness #rp

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Interest in sensory substitution (not only for blindness) seems more or less stable https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22sensory%20substitution%22&filter=years.1995-2025&sort=date&timeline=expanded

"sensory substitution" - Search Results - PubMed

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

According to PubMed, scientific interest in visual prostheses is waning https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22visual%20prosthesis%22&filter=years.1995-2025&sort=date&timeline=expanded #bci #blindness

Screenshot of PubMed, showing the number of publications about "visual prosthesis" in the past 30 years.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

The #audioscreen add-on for the #nvda screen reader for Windows bundles 32-bit and 64-bit libraries in separate folders https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/message/26877 More about AudioScreen on GitHub at https://github.com/josephsl/audioScreen

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Still zero news media coverage about results reported during this event?

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4d

With a background in industrial R&D never bothered about doing so, but I now finally created an ORCID presence FWIW https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6975-4014

Peter B.L. Meijer

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 5d

On screen readers for the blind: #nvda 64-bit with on-device image description alpha build now available https://groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.org/g/nvda-users/c/Th41cGvjsPI #blind #a11y #ai

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Seeing like Meta: Smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality https://www.abc.net.au/religion/meta-ai-smart-glasses-and-the-ethics-of-augmented-reality/105849612 #ar/#XR

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