Bradley Greger, an associate professor at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), is working with Second Sight Medical Products to develop a brain implant to help give vision to those who have no retina.
Second Sight reportedly makes a retinal prosthesis that uses a patient's remaining retinal cells to gain some useful vision. Gregor is working on a cortical implant for those who have no retina — either they were born without one or it was destroyed by cancer, trauma or glaucoma. Gregor's device would reportedly be implanted directly on to the visual cortex, which developers believe may give them a more detailed result because the cortex is larger than the retina.
Image courtesy Second Sight Medical Products
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Source: Arizona State University