The results and implications of fully functional visual prostheses are exciting.

Pham guessed it was a lot like a blind man learning to use a visual prosthesis.

Therefore, visual prostheses are developed to restore vision for the blind by using the stimulation.

An ocular prosthesis does not provide vision; this would be a visual prosthesis.

Heris wondered if the visual prosthesis allowed her to read displays, or could be hooked to a computer output, but she didn't like to ask.

That visual prosthesis is good enough for walking around without bumping into things, but it doesn't begin to substitute for real sight."

The long-term objective of this research is to develop a continuously wearable intracortical visual prosthesis device.

A visual prosthesis can create a sense of image by electrically stimulating neurons in the visual system.

He is also a pioneer in visual prosthetics, developing one of the first visual prostheses in the 1960s.

A cortical visual prosthesis is a promising subject of research because it targets neurons past the site of disease in most blind patients.

Several types of visual prosthesis are in development or trials in humans, and one device has been approved for sale in the European market.

Visual prosthesis for restoring visual capabilities of blind persons is still in more elementary stages of development.

A visual prosthesis system consists of an external (or implantable) imaging system which acquires and processes the video.

Therefore retinal, optic nerve and visual cortex stimulation are the three different methods used in visual prostheses.

The seminal experimental work towards the development of visual prostheses was done by cortical stimulation using a grid of large surface electrodes.

This first design of a flexible microelectrode array for visual prostheses that fBCIs can be versatile and not only limited to cortical measurements.

In February 2013, the Argus II became the first commercial visual prosthesis to be approved for use in the United States.

Brindley and Rushton (1974) used the phosphenes to create a visual prosthesis, in this case by using the phosphenes to depict Braille spots.

Flexible microelectrode arrays have also been shown to have potential in visual prosthesis technologies, as shown in 2011 by researchers at the Seoul National University.

The recent success of deep brain stimulation techniques targeting the midbrain has encouraged research to pursue the approach of LGN stimulation for a visual prosthesis.

Other applications include bladder prostheses; cochlear and brain-stem auditory prostheses and retinal and thalamic visual prostheses.

A visual prosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, is an experimental visual device intended to restore functional vision in those suffering from partial or total blindness.

Microsystem-based Visual Prosthesis (MIVIP)

Daniel Palanker and his group at Stanford University have developed an optoelectronic system for visual prosthesis that includes a subretinal photodiode array and an infrared image projection system mounted on video goggles.

The vOICe vision technology is one of several approaches towards sensory substitution (vision substitution) for the blind that aims to provide synthetic vision to the user by means of a non-invasive visual prosthesis.