Neuralink Cofounder Says New Company's Eye Implant Could Be "Ultimate" VR Tech - Futurism

"We deliberation we spot a mode to make what ends up arsenic the eventual AR/VR show exertion without meaningful surgery."

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After leaving Elon Musk's Neuralink in 2021, Max Hodak is backmost with a caller brain-computer interface startup, and it's moving connected a next-generation prosthetic oculus that helium hopes volition some supply a caller attraction for blindness and yet pave the mode for the aboriginal of virtual and augmented reality.

In a caller interview with Futurism, Hodak told america astir his institution Science Corp's "Science Eye," which combines cistron therapy with a microLED show implicit the retina to reconstruct vision.

As the neuroscience entrepreneur notes, the Science Eyes person already been implanted successful some bunnies, which helium says are "doing well." Human trials are inactive a ways disconnected — "eighteen months, hopefully!" — but helium thinks a saltation connected the tech utilizing "different underlying technology, not the microLED film" could pb to immersive virtual acquisition that permission today's clunky headsets successful the dust.

"We deliberation we spot a mode to make what ends up arsenic the eventual AR/VR show exertion without meaningful surgery," Hodak told Futurism.

Different Strokes

Science Corp, Hodak emphasized, is "extremely different" from Neuralink — though as Bloomberg reported a fewer months back, the startup is present the second-highest-funded brain-computer interface institution retired determination with $160 cardinal successful capital, trailing lone Neuralink itself.

And successful spite of the flashy VR concept, wide Hodak has expressed a precise cautious imaginativeness for the company's trajectory.

"The method attack we're processing is highly antithetic from what Neuralink was doing," helium told us. "Ultimately, though, our imaginativeness goes good beyond conscionable objective ocular prostheses. But we privation to fto ambition turn with occurrence alternatively than making large statements astir things we whitethorn oregon whitethorn not bash successful the aboriginal astatine this point."

For now, Science Corp is "focused connected getting our archetypal merchandise into patients" — and erstwhile it does, we're excited to spot wherever the startup goes next.

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