The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
@seeingwithsound.bsky.social
The vOICe? OIC? Oh I see! Think different: vision for the blind through sound-guided mental imagery. https://x.com/seeingwithsound, [email protected]
https://www.seeingwithsound.com
https://www.seeingwithsound.com
Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
Cortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system"; #blindness #BCI #NeuroTech $CRGT
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Cortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system"; #blindness #BCI #NeuroTech $CRGT
Stare-down between a female blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses and a male blind recipient of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (AI-generated video clip). For the serious part, visit artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #AR/#XR
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Stare-down between a female blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses and a male blind recipient of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (AI-generated video clip). For the serious part, visit artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #AR/#XR
Scalable BCI? Currently well over 10,000 people have The vOICe for Android on their active device (phone, tablet, ...), and you can get it for free from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d... The cumulative number of installs of The vOICe for Android is well over 500,000.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Scalable BCI? Currently well over 10,000 people have The vOICe for Android on their active device (phone, tablet, ...), and you can get it for free from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d... The cumulative number of installs of The vOICe for Android is well over 500,000.
(image) Map of users of The vOICe for Android in the past 30 minutes play.google.com/store/apps/d... #BCI #NeuroTech
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
(image) Map of users of The vOICe for Android in the past 30 minutes play.google.com/store/apps/d... #BCI #NeuroTech
The Global Bionic Vision Community on Discord currently has 90 members.
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Global Bionic Vision Community on Discord currently has 90 members.
(video captured on Meta Quest 2) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
(video captured on Meta Quest 2) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop.
(screenshot) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop Streamer, while comfortably lying down; YouTube exercise video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug...
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
(screenshot) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop Streamer, while comfortably lying down; YouTube exercise video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug...
The 5 essential elements of an iBCIs sandbox.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The 5 essential elements of an iBCIs sandbox.
Making the case for sandboxes in implantable neurotechnologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social on #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech, #iBCI
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Making the case for sandboxes in implantable neurotechnologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social on #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech, #iBCI
Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"#BCI #NeuroTech
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"#BCI #NeuroTech
AFAIK he first introduced this catchy term at the 2019 BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, no? At 17:05 into videocast.nih.gov/watch=31691 and discussed on Twitter/X at x.com/mameister4/s... + slightly adapted by me there. Of course I'd expect you both to discuss these things/challenges!
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
AFAIK he first introduced this catchy term at the 2019 BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, no? At 17:05 into videocast.nih.gov/watch=31691 and discussed on Twitter/X at x.com/mameister4/s... + slightly adapted by me there. Of course I'd expect you both to discuss these things/challenges!
ChatGPT: "The vOICe evolves with the web; Neuralink Blindsight expires with its electrodes." chatgpt.com/share/690a5d...
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ChatGPT: "The vOICe evolves with the web; Neuralink Blindsight expires with its electrodes." chatgpt.com/share/690a5d...
As long as (even old) web standards remain supported, The vOICe vision BCI has unlimited lifetime as a web app and will run on future smartglasses & headsets that do not even exist yet www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... How future-proof will your Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be? #BCI
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As long as (even old) web standards remain supported, The vOICe vision BCI has unlimited lifetime as a web app and will run on future smartglasses & headsets that do not even exist yet www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... How future-proof will your Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be? #BCI
Current state-of-the-art? This was the state of the art for The vOICe vision BCI peer-reviewed and published back in 1992 for several combinations of parameter settings in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution www.seeingwithsound.com/vbme6.html There's more than brain implants...
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Current state-of-the-art? This was the state of the art for The vOICe vision BCI peer-reviewed and published back in 1992 for several combinations of parameter settings in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution www.seeingwithsound.com/vbme6.html There's more than brain implants...
ReVision Implant's aim with their brain implant in visual cortex is 4096 - 16384 pixels (electrodes?). No mention of seizure risk. www.revision-implant.com/technology
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ReVision Implant's aim with their brain implant in visual cortex is 4096 - 16384 pixels (electrodes?). No mention of seizure risk. www.revision-implant.com/technology
In Android XR, there's an APK for that, and no need for a phone or PC www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-a... by @ianhamilton.net via @skarredghost.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In Android XR, there's an APK for that, and no need for a phone or PC www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-a... by @ianhamilton.net via @skarredghost.bsky.social
To ChatGPT: What will be the likely "Butcher number" of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex? Butcher number (Meister, 2019): the number ratio of damaged or killed neurons and stimulated or recorded neurons. chatgpt.com/share/6903cd... #BCI #NeuroTech
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
To ChatGPT: What will be the likely "Butcher number" of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex? Butcher number (Meister, 2019): the number ratio of damaged or killed neurons and stimulated or recorded neurons. chatgpt.com/share/6903cd... #BCI #NeuroTech
Wonderful news: both The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app (PWA) work fine on the new Samsung Galaxy XR (Android XR) headset! Many thanks to @xrworkout.bsky.social for preliminary test results shared via Twitter/X (@xrworkoutlabs). #noninvasive #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wonderful news: both The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app (PWA) work fine on the new Samsung Galaxy XR (Android XR) headset! Many thanks to @xrworkout.bsky.social for preliminary test results shared via Twitter/X (@xrworkoutlabs). #noninvasive #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Apart from The vOICe web app that runs in your browser, there is The vOICe for Android, available from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d...
It runs on your Android smartphone and tablet, but also on Vuzix smart glasses apps.vuzix.com/app/the-voic...
It runs on your Android smartphone and tablet, but also on Vuzix smart glasses apps.vuzix.com/app/the-voic...
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Apart from The vOICe web app that runs in your browser, there is The vOICe for Android, available from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d...
It runs on your Android smartphone and tablet, but also on Vuzix smart glasses apps.vuzix.com/app/the-voic...
It runs on your Android smartphone and tablet, but also on Vuzix smart glasses apps.vuzix.com/app/the-voic...
Nowadays, with #AI realism increasing almost daily, every visual prosthesis announcement or report could be fake or over-the-top, except for The vOICe vision BCI, because you can try it yourself in your own home environment www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... See for yourself #BCI #blindness
October 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nowadays, with #AI realism increasing almost daily, every visual prosthesis announcement or report could be fake or over-the-top, except for The vOICe vision BCI, because you can try it yourself in your own home environment www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/web... See for yourself #BCI #blindness
Blind user of The vOICe: "Anyway I spun around a few times, and then tried to find the window again, and I did it! There's also another window behind my couch which is a bit longer." mas.to/@pixelate@tw...
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Blind user of The vOICe: "Anyway I spun around a few times, and then tried to find the window again, and I did it! There's also another window behind my couch which is a bit longer." mas.to/@pixelate@tw...
或者，您可以尝试 The vOICe 网络应用 (在您的浏览器中运行) www.seeingwithsound.cn/webvoice/web...
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
或者，您可以尝试 The vOICe 网络应用 (在您的浏览器中运行) www.seeingwithsound.cn/webvoice/web...
I could use some help spreading the news in China...
The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 www.seeingwithsound.cn/The%20vOICe%...
学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v...
The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 www.seeingwithsound.cn/The%20vOICe%...
学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v...
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I could use some help spreading the news in China...
The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 www.seeingwithsound.cn/The%20vOICe%...
学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v...
The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 www.seeingwithsound.cn/The%20vOICe%...
学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册 www.seeingwithsound.cn/manual/The_v...