A surgically implanted chip and augmented-reality glasses are helping some people who have lost sight to read again.
In a small trial, about 80% 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, according to a study published Monday (Oct. 20) in The New England Journal of Medicine.
“In the history of artificial vision, this represents a new era,” study co-author Mahi Muqit, an ophthalmologist at University College London and the Moorfields Eye Hospital in the U.K., said in a statement. “Blind patients are actually able to have meaningful central vision restoration, which has never been done before.”
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