The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and Second Sight are developing glasses with embedded vision and eye tracking sensors to be used with a new retinal prosthesis system. The system will identify obstacles, doorways, hallways, and household objects and their relative positions. The information will be projected into the retinal prosthesis, bypassing the damaged rods and cones in the retina.
The components are meant to enable APL‘s broader vision of a semiautonomous controller for assistive robotic manipulators and remote devices, called Hybrid Augmented Reality Multimodal Operation Neural Integration Environment (HARMONIE).
Wearable Tech + Digital Health NYC 2015 – June 30 @ New York Academy of Sciences