ChatGPT 5: "Unlike speculations about Neuralink Blindsight, everything about The vOICe is fully substantiated and open to independent review" https://chatgpt.com/share/68d1ae58-aee8-8004-91fb-c08a4bfc4206

A light and smart wearable platform with multimodal foundation model for enhanced spatial reasoning in people with blindness and low vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10875v1

Residual gaze behavior during navigation in blindness and low vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11530v1

Multi-path sensory substitution device navigates the blind and visually impaired individuals https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141938225002379

March 2025 Nature Outlook: Vision - Looking to the future of blindness prevention and treatment https://www.nature.com/immersive/vision/index.html

Early blind user of The vOICe vision BCI today: "This past weekend I went exploring some caves using The vOICe. I used the Android app since I had it already loaded on my phone, and there was no service once inside. I was able to see where the other people were even […] [Original post on mas.to]

Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63020-1 phased-array #tFUS #TUS #FUS #BCI #NeuroTech "Experiments demonstrated selective modulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus (#LGN#neurotech#bci#FUS#tus#tfus connected visual cortex regions […]

Auditory midbrain encodes training-induced plasticity in sound localization behavior (in ferrets) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677707v1 "changes in neural decoding performance matched improvements in localization accuracy of individual animals when ferrets were trained to […]

China issues first industry standard for brain-computer interface medical devices https://technode.com/2025/09/17/china-issues-first-industry-standard-for-brain-computer-interface-medical-devices/ 我国第一项脑机接口医疗器械标准发布 https://www.ithome.com/0/883/421.htm #BCI #neurotech

It looks like Phosphoenix has pulled away from visual cortical prosthesis development in view of fierce competition from Neuralink Blindsight and ReVision Implant, and is now instead targeting the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) for a visual prosthesis, much like Garrett Stanley and John […]

(YouTube, Chinese w/o captions but graphical English subtitles) Blind patient treated with ZM-02 optogenetic gene therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFOhopQZFo Zhongmou Therapeutics; #RP #blindness #optogenetics

ChatGPT: "Here's a direct, technical, and respectful argument you might present to Elon Musk to explain why the Neuralink "Blindsight" brain implant is unlikely to restore meaningful vision in people born blind" https://chatgpt.com/share/681baf6f-157c-8004-b2ad-601496402773

Example soundscape sequence for a virtual reality scene that shows a path lined with pillars, next approaching a wall with a gate, and with a sphere and cube behind the wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6lBRwUDEU Use stereo headphones.

A deep learning framework for predicting functional visual performance in bionic eye users https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.23.660990v1

Static or temporal? Semantic scene simplification to aid wayfinding in immersive simulations of bionic vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10813

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/ijcb/2651763 #BCI #neurotech

Add-on update for the NVDA screen reader: AudioScreen 2025.1.2 released, 2025.2 (64-bit compatible version) incoming https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/message/26850 Latest version on GitHub at https://github.com/josephsl/audioScreen/ AudioScreen contains a version of The vOICe in the […]

Neurons and Pixels https://www.neurotechreports.com/pages/publishersletterJul24.html by James Cavuoto on Neuralink Blindsight and the graveyard of commercial failures: Optobionics, Retina Implant, Second Sight, Pixium Vision and others.

Bayesian optimization of cortical neuroprosthetic vision using perceptual feedback https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/adeae9 "The challenge in cortical neuroprosthetic vision is determining the optimal, safe stimulation patterns to evoke the desired light perceptions […]

Multitarget neurostimulation of the deep brain: clinical opportunities, challenges, and emerging technologies https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ae08ea There's more than electrode arrays in the future of #BCI #neurotech#bcifor treating medical conditions.

Click-baity title: Your camera sensor is mostly blind, but that could be about to change https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/your-camera-sensor-is-mostly-blind-but-that-could-be-about-to-change/ar-AA1EqKao "Dutch start-up #eyeo has secured €15 million in seed funding to develop new image […]

(YouTube) This is how Neuralink built a human head for surgical practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evdImdnqG0A Very helpful in preparing for a motor cortex implant. Will it also be realistic enough for practicing pushing the occipital lobes aside and such for Neuralink Blindsight? #bci

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision […]

Early blind user of The vOICe vision BCI today: "This past weekend I went exploring some caves using The vOICe. I used the Android app since I had it already loaded on my phone, and there was no service once inside. I was able to see where the other people were even […] [Original post on mas.to]

Bloomberg, September 18, 2025: China's brain implant startups take on Musk's Neuralink in new tech race https://archive.ph/wsvBh "America’s leadership in the cutting-edge field of brain technology is being challenged as Chinese startups rise with the support of a full-throttle policy drive." […]

Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics #blind #blindness

#Multisensory vs. #unisensory#multisensorylearning: how they shape effective connectivity networks subserving unimodal and multimodal integration https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1641862/full "cross-modal training alters significantly the effective connectivity […]

(YouTube) Think different: If I ask you to visualize an apple, can you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMBhDv4sik See things differently through mental imagery

Supramodal and modality-specific neural information supports multi-feature prediction errors across cortical levels https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.149 predictive coding, #multisensory #perception

WAChRs are excitatory opsins sensitive to indoor lighting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675947v1 retinal implant

Skoltech: Mathematical model of memory suggests 7 senses are optimal https://www.skoltech.ru/en/news/mathematical-model-memory-suggests-7-senses-are-optimal The critical dimension of memory engrams and an optimal number of senses https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-11244-y

Engineering infrared light detection in blind human retina using ultrasensitive human TRPV1 channels https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016777992500318X #BCI #neurotech

Visual image reconstruction from brain activity via latent representation https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-vision-110423-023616 by @ykamit et al.; mental imagery, #neuroscience

Vivani Medical announces record date for spin-off of #cortigent neuromodulation subsidiary to shareholders https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/09/17/3151620/0/en/Vivani-Medical-Announces-Record-Date-for-Spin-off-of-Cortigent-Neuromodulation-Subsidiary-to-Shareholders.html $CRGT […]

How tree shrews see the world - A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09441-w #neuroscience #vision

Auditory augmented reality for wellbeing https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1211573 #AR #aar

(WIRED 2024) The next frontier for brain implants is artificial vision https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-frontier-for-brain-implants-is-artificial-vision-neuralink-elon-musk/ Archived at https://archive.ph/DtKM4 "Bussard only sees phosphenes in the lower left part of his visual field", like […]

"Blindsight would probably require a separate study from PRIME and CONVOY. As such, Neuralink might need FDA approval in the United States to start human trials for Blindsight." FDA's breakthrough device designation alone does not suffice for that purpose […]

(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrLaDCTOwA University of California Television (UCTV); #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

To ChatGPT 5: Will The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind disrupt the market for invasive visual prostheses such as the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? https://chatgpt.com/share/68c33028-95a4-8004-80f4-d83ecd843546 "Short answer: yes - if […] [Original post on mas.to]

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02055-5 "neurons that encode sensory inference are specialized for receiving and locally broadcasting top-down information"

Encoding visual stimuli by striatal neurons (in mice) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676378v1 "Although visual object encoding is considered a cortical attribute, subcortical areas also contain visual processing circuits."

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.672180v1 "Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery"; #neuroscience "'same but different' relationship between […] [Original post on mas.to]

(video) NOVA: Artificial vision using brain implants https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvbs-sci-artificialvision/artificial-vision-using-brain-implants-nova/nova-premium-collection/ on the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) of the Illinois Institute of […] [Original post on mas.to]

Space Tango partners with LambdaVision on NASA Phase II InSPA Award to advance artificial retina manufacturing in space https://spacetango.com/latest/pressreleases/space-tango-partners-with-lambdavision-on-nasa-phase-2-inspa-award-to-advance-artificial-retina-manufacturing-in-space/ […]

Archived PDF: The vOICe or Neuralink Blindsight https://ia601000.us.archive.org/1/items/neuralink_202509/neuralink.pdf September 14, 2025

WIRED: OpenAI ramps up robotics work in race toward #AGI https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/ hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. To cover up recent lack of progress in #ai#agi

Neuralink co-founder Suh says brain chips will remove life constraints https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-science/2025/09/15/WDOKJCVQFBGKXBT5YUR3VWEFKA/ Interview with DJ Seo, Gangnam-style, err... Gangnam District, Seoul. Neuralink Blindsight goal of clinical trials in 2026. #BCI #neurotech

NVDA 2025.3 screen reader for the blind released (Microsoft Windows) https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3/ The #NVDA #audioscreen#nvdaadd-on (containing a version of The vOICe) has been updated at https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=167 for the NVDA 2025 screen reader. You can add or change […]

Exploring cortical connectivity of visual prosthesis users: resting-state study https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/81/1/20 "This study reveals significant changes in cortical connectivity before UEA Utah Electrode Array] implantation and after its explantation." #BCI […] [Original post on mas.to]