New eye implants and augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again

A surgically implanted chip and augmented-reality glasses are helping people who've lost sight read again.

- SKYLER WARE

In a small trial, about 80 per cent of people who had lost vision due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were able to read letters and words a year after receiving the treatment. “In the history of artificial vision, this represents a new era,” said Mahi Muqit, an ophthalmologist at University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital. “Blind patients are actually able to have meaningful central vision restoration, which has never been done before.”