Figure 1.

Smart Bionic Eye. A visual prosthesis has the potential to provide visual augmentations through the means of artificial intelligence (AI) based scene understanding (here shown for visual search). For example, a user may verbally instruct the Smart Bionic Eye to locate misplaced keys, and the system would respond visually by segmenting the keys in the prosthetic image while the user is looking around the room (room image reprinted under CC-BY from Lin et al., 2014). To guide the development of such a device, we propose to develop a virtual reality prototype supported by simulated prosthetic vision. Figure reprinted under CC-BY from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20092640.v1.