Vision for the future
This technology combines a surgically implanted retinal prosthesis, video-camera-enabled glasses, and a video processing unit that is worn at the waist or carried.
In a healthy eye, the rods and cones of the retina convert light into tiny electrochemical impulses that are sent by the optic nerve into the brain, which decodes them into images. However, in RP, a person’s delicate photoreceptors are damaged over time.