Extended Reality

Archived: the Smart Bionic Eye effort has grown into several of our current research areas. This page is kept so that existing links continue to work.

BionicVisionXR is an open-source virtual reality toolbox for studying simulated prosthetic vision during natural head and body movement.

SimpleXR is an archived open-source Unity toolbox developed by Justin M. Kasowski during his PhD to simplify the creation of visual and behavioral experiments in virtual and augmented reality.

Rather than pursuing a (degraded) imitation of natural sight, bionic vision might be better understood as a form of neuroadaptive XR: a perceptual interface that forgoes visual fidelity in favor of delivering sparse, personalized cues shaped (at its full potential) by user intent, behavioral context, and cognitive state.