New Visual Assistants for a Restored Vision

Jean-Louis DeBougrenet de la Tocnaye, Professor and Head of Optics Department at IMT Atlantique (France)

Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom

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Abstract

We present some thoughts about the recent developments, made possible by technological advances and miniaturization of connected visual prostheses, linked to the visual system, operating at different levels of the retina, as well as in the visual cortex. While these objects represent a great hope for people with impaired vision to recover partial vision, we show how this technology could also act on the functional vision of well-sighted persons to improve or increase their visual performance.

Biography

Professor, head of the Optics Department at IMT Atlantique (France), specialist in composite liquid crystals, diffractive and vision optics. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (TU Munich), Churchill College Fellow, University of Cambridge (Engineering Department) and Optica Fellow. Author of 65 patents, Founder of six companies. Winner of the Cambridge Entrepreneurship (2002), the SPIE Technical Achievement Award (2006), Grand Prix laureate of the French Académie des Sciences (2022). Current acting Cylensee CTO (Pittsburgh) designing and manufacturing cyborg contact lenses for various uses in optics.