Hacker News with Generative AI: Vision

Gene therapy surgery restores some vision to legally blind children (newatlas.com)
Scientists in the UK have successfully used gene therapy to restore some vision to legally blind children with an inherited retinal condition.

Gene Therapy, Medicine, Science, Children, Vision

6 points by geox 7 days ago | 0 comments

Cross Views (wordpress.com)
Your camera has the ability to take three dimensional photos. Your screen has the ability to display three dimensional photos. You’ve probably never used either. This isn’t a hidden feature of some new phone hardware release, it’s a feature of your brain. All your brain needs to see in 3D is two pictures, and you can trick your brain into seeing 3D on a flat screen using just your eye muscles. I will teach you how.

Vision, Perception, 3D, Technology, Neuroscience

173 points by moultano 10 days ago | 116 comments

The secret behind sharp vision: the benefits of tiny eye movements (medicalxpress.com)
Even when we think we are holding our gaze perfectly still, our eyes make tiny, involuntary movements. While these "fixational eye movements" might seem like they would blur our vision, new research reveals they actually help us see fine details more clearly.

Vision, Neuroscience, Human Biology, Research

7 points by bikenaga 24 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game (vidzert.com)

Games, Vision, Color Vision, Human Perception

31 points by vidzert 35 days ago | 41 comments

REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex (2021) (nlm.nih.gov)
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be taken over by its neighbors.

Sleep, Neuroscience, Brain Activity, Vision, Visual Cortex

30 points by mhb 71 days ago | 2 comments

'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain (news.yale.edu)
Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.

Neuroscience, Vision, Psychology, Perception

230 points by gnabgib 137 days ago | 102 comments

Meta Llama 3 vision multimodal models – how to use them and what they can do (theregister.com)
Meta has been influential in driving the development of open language models with its Llama family, but up until now, the only way to interact with them has been through text.

Meta, Generative AI, Vision, Multimodal

10 points by rntn 153 days ago | 1 comments

Hallucinations from flickering lights: What happens in our brain? (medicalxpress.com)
A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity.

Neuroscience, Vision, Hallucinations, Brain Activity

8 points by PaulHoule 168 days ago | 1 comments

Gene Therapy Restores Vision (neurosciencenews.com)
After the treatment, one patient saw her first star. Another saw snowflakes for the first time. Other patients were newly able to navigate outside of the home or to read the labels on their child’s Halloween candy.

Gene Therapy, Medical Research, Vision, Biology

3 points by bookofjoe 183 days ago | 0 comments

Health, Medicine, Side Effects, Vision

13 points by ggm 244 days ago | 4 comments

Blue field entoptic phenomenon (wikipedia.org)

Optical Illusions, Biology, Vision

117 points by thunderbong 289 days ago | 38 comments

Covid-19 May Damage Vision (neurosciencenews.com)

Covid-19, Health, Vision, Neuroscience

13 points by amichail 297 days ago | 1 comments

Outdoor time is good for kids' eyesight (text.npr.org)

Health, Children, Vision, Research

41 points by jimmytucson 300 days ago | 29 comments

Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)

Nearsightedness, Health, Childhood, Vision

228 points by pseudolus 318 days ago | 172 comments

Vision can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis, study finds (sciencealert.com)