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On Tech & Vision With Dr. Cal Roberts

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Dr. Cal Roberts, President and CEO of Lighthouse Guild, the leading provider of exceptional services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals, interviews inventors, developers and entrepreneurs who have innovative tech ideas and solutions to help improve the lives of people with vision loss.
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Episodes

Extending Human Vision

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss. Today’s big idea is how the technology used in instruments that extend human vision to space is being relied on by vision technology developers in devices that help people with vision loss in everyday tasks here on Earth. Using substitute senses has allowed scientists across many fields to continue their work without the use of sight. The eSight is one such device that stimulates the remaining fu...

Jul 01, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5

The Development of Artificial Vision

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss. Today’s big idea is all about the cutting edge advancements in ocular bionic prosthetics. The Argus II is a device that uses a camera and a chip to stimulate the retina and send signals to the brain. Our guest, Dr. Mark Humayun, developer of the Argus II, speaks with Dr. Roberts about the development of this device, and the importance of the collaboration between developers and early adopters. He...

Jul 01, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4

A “Remapped Reality” — Using Virtual Reality to Remap the Visual Field

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss. Today’s big idea is the power of virtual reality - how people are using VR to remap sight and help people with vision loss in their daily lives Dr. Roberts visits with Grace Andruszkiewicz and Dr. Frank Werblin about how emerging technologies help people with low vision access the areas of vision they still have, by using a virtual reality system. They also talk about how sight works biologically...

Jul 01, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Integrating Touch and Sound

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss. Today’s big idea is how we can use touch and sound together to create spatial awareness. Just like learning to play the piano or another instrument, smart cane technology engages the both sound and touch to compensate for loss of vision. Kürşat Ceylan, the founder and CEO of WeWALK, shares how the WeWALK smart cane engages a number of senses to develop new autonomy for users, and how their techno...

Jul 01, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Seeing with Your Ears: Translating the Visual World to Audio

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss. Today’s big idea is seeing with your ears — exploring technology that uses audio to connect people with vision loss to the world around them. Dr. Cal Roberts speaks with Dr. Yonatan Wexler about the OrCam My Eye device. They explore the ideas of whether the brain can recreate a picture using audio alone, how well hearing can replace lost sight, and what are the discovery processes for using audio...

Jul 01, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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