Restoring functional vision need not start with brain surgery. The vOICe converts a live camera view into sound. Unlike brain implants, The vOICe vision BCI is 100% noninvasive and can simply be discarded if you don't like it. Try it on your smartphone:
https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm
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Both the Android version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe&hl=zh_CN and the web version https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?hl=cn of The vOICe vision BCI support Chinese. 用你的耳朵看！ #noninvasive #BCI #blindness
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[OT] Reuters: In China, the #AI #bubble has already burst https://archive.ph/BDyNc (archived from https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/)
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I have deleted my earlier posts about the paper "Sensory substitution systems and human-machine collaboration: A review of neuroplasticity, shared control, and communicative capital in assistive technology https://mindwellsci.press/journal/JHA/1/1/10.3390/s26144683" because of too many red flags https://chatgpt.com/share/6adfc98b-3a38-83ed-b20e-7f83d32dd1ae
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[OT] Brace for impact: Protecting people and the economy when the #AI #bubble bursts https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/report-brace-for-impact-protecting-people-and-the-economy-when-the-ai-bubble-burst
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Mathematical model for visual cortical development based on molecular mechanisms underlying the generation and elimination of dendritic spines https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.24.761552v1
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Crossmodal interference results before and after training with The vOICe sensory substitution device.
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Taxonomy and mechanisms of sensory substitution devices
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Sensory substitution systems and human-machine collaboration: A review of neuroplasticity, shared control, and communicative capital in assistive technology https://mindwellsci.press/journal/JHA/1/1/10.3390/s26144683 #BCI #NeuroTech
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Adaptive spatial calibration and co-adaptation under binary feedback for sensory substitution https://doi.org/10.31224/8579 #haptics
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You only learn effectively when you are wrong some of the time. Therefore, The vOICe exercise aims to give you a sound-guided mental imagery task that is neither too hard nor too easy: you'll often be wrong, but also be approximately right much of the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
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Low-invasive large-field retinal modulation using an extraocular temporal interference stimulation electrode array https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-026-10573-6
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Prefrontal cortex and striatum dissociate modality and learning order in cross-modal sensorimotor learning in mice https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-78921-y "Mice were able to transfer learned behavior from visual to auditory stimuli, but not the reverse." What about humans?
Specifically, what about blind people training for visual-to-auditory sensory substitution?
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Electrical stimulation modulates immune cells - on the role of microglia in brain-computer interface performance https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/electrical-stimulation-modulates by TK Kozai; #gliomodulation #BCI #NeuroTech #biology
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How does this compare to the PRIMA retinal implant from Science Corporation?
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Chinese eye hospital reports the country's first retinal-pathway visual implant in a blind patient https://neurotechguide.org/news/china-first-retinal-visual-bci-patient-wenzhou/ retinal implant, #BCI #blindness
"A 66-year-old woman blinded by retinitis pigmentosa can now recognize simple characters and pick up objects about two months after receiving a 320-resolution implant under the macula in a clinical trial, Chinese media report."
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Genetically modified cones rescue visual function in children https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.13.26363794v1 "Gene therapy can restore retinal signals absent since birth in animal models, yet the translation to humans remains challenging."
"After treatment in late childhood, we find clear evidence of new cone signals reaching visual cortex in 4 out of 7 patients."
"Recovery of foveal acuity and canonical colour vision remained limited, consistent with neuroplasticity constraints on specialised neurocircuitry beyond critical developmental windows."
"Together, these findings show that the human brain can incorporate a new sensory signal after years of complete congenital deprivation, while revealing selective bottlenecks that limit full visual recovery."