Sci-Fi Glasses Restores Vision Of Legally Blind Patients After A Fashion

There has been a lot of talk about humans becoming part machine in order to survive in the future, which still retains that farfetched air from when humans didn’t even have the internet yet. As of right now, there are several examples of this development occurring, with a good example being the new device that is helping legally blind people see again. It actually looks like a headset found in the Star Trek franchise.

Legally blind refers to people who haven’t completely lost their vision yet after an accident or a disease. For these patients, using the device called eSight 3 can help bring back their sense of sight via advanced augmented reality technology, CNET reports.

Making use of optical prisms and high-resolution displays, the headset doesn’t actually restore vision by healing anything. Rather, it increases the level of detail that the damaged eyes can see, thus helping the legally blind become less so. The publication spoke to one of the patients who tried out the device named Yvonne Felix, who explained what it was like to wear the device.

"I remember putting them on and looking up and I saw my husband who I'd been married to for eight years and had never seen before," Felix said. "And my 2-month-old son, who we had just brought home from the hospital and he was holding him and it was the most beautiful image, like it's burned in my mind for the rest of my life."

Based on Felix’s testimony, it would seem that the eSight 3 certainly has a considerable impact on restoring sight after being able to describe what people are wearing, what their facial expressions are, and certain patterns, USA Today reports. This is a huge development within the medical and technology industries, and could even provide hope for those who are permanently blind due to a birth defect or something else.