Blind people could one day regain their vision with a simple pair of glasses, thanks to technological and medical advances. A team of Israeli researchers from the Haifa Institute of Technology has developed a prototype of glasses capable of stimulating the vision of people with degenerative diseases of the retina, one of the main causes of blindness in the West.
The study, published by the journal Nature Communication, explains how these specialists in optogenetics (a mixture of optics and genetics), created a pair of glasses which manage, thanks to a camera, to record images and transmit them in real time to holographic projectors, installed on the branches .
This high definition hologram is then aimed at the retina and makes it possible to overcome the dysfunction of the photoreceptors of the eye. This sophisticated technique could replace surgery and implants in the long term, once the prototype is ready to be launched on the market.
