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"Science Corporation, a company developing a brain-computer interface akin to Neuralink, recently announced the results of a clinical trial testing their implant's ability to restore vision to the blind. According to reporting from Wired, the trial participants started with an average visual acuity of 20/450, far below the legal blindness threshold of 20/200, and ended with an average of 20/160. In practical terms, the implant allowed a group of previously blind people to read, recognize faces, play cards, and solve crossword puzzles."
"... The [38] patients in the trials had lost their central visual field, which makes them unable to read and struggle to recognize faces. The results showed that the PRIMA implant restored real form vision in these patients such that sequences of letters can be read with a clinically meaningful improvement of letter acuity.
”The results demonstrate a milestone in the treatment of blindness caused by geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration. For the first time it was possible to restore real form vision in a retina that has deteriorated due to age-related macular degeneration” ...
Patients show a notable improvement in their letter acuity while using the PRIMA implant to read a series of letters; some are able to read longer text. ...
”The results demonstrate a milestone in the treatment of blindness caused by geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration. For the first time it was possible to restore real form vision in a retina that has deteriorated due to age-related macular degeneration” ...
Patients show a notable improvement in their letter acuity while using the PRIMA implant to read a series of letters; some are able to read longer text. ...
The PRIMA system is a visual prosthesis which consists of a photovoltaic implant—totally cableless and autonomous—surgically implanted under the retina, a special pair of glasses with a camera and a projection system, and a pocket processor that processes the image for clarity and magnification. ..."
Science Announces Positive Preliminary Results For Vision Restoration In Pivotal Clinical Trial (company news release)
The PRIMA System Zoom is an assistive feature of the PRIMA system that changes the size of the features in the image on the retina and implant, but provides a correspondingly smaller field of view.
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