Israeli Company Makes Digital Glasses that Give Sight to the Legally Blind

(Israel21c) Leoni Jesner - Israeli company ICI Vision has developed Orama high-tech glasses with the potential to give millions of legally blind people the ability to see. Orama combines artificial intelligence, eye-tracking software, and computer vision, including a built-in 3D camera, to optimize the image in front of the user's eyes. The eyewear is personalized to each user through eye mapping to locate healthy retinal cells. "We can build a set of glasses which projects images onto the healthy part of the eye," explains CEO Tal Lotan. The working prototype has been tested on 60 patients, with many able to see for the first time.


2018-09-28 00:00:00

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