rraskar

Very good question. Even today, when I see the coke bottle video (http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//trillionfps/) I see new intriguing details. The video was captured by our scientist Andreas Velten and our large team.

There is a reversal of the sequence of events recorded in the video compared to the real world!

You can see great details in this publication below. This was not covered in the popular media. Andreas Velten, Di Wu, Adrian Jarabo, Belen Masia, Christopher Barsi, Everett Lawson, Chinmaya Joshi, Diego Gutierrez, Moungi G. Bawendi, and Ramesh Raskar. Capturing and Visualizing Light in Motion. SIGGRAPH 2013

PDF link: http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~diegog/ficheros/pdf_papers/femto.pdf

Negative light!

You should join our efforts to address preventable blindness at http://lvpmitra.com in collaboration with LVP Eye Institute in Hyderabad.

It is very much possible to create a bionic eye. But my guess is that bionic eye will be more effective for augmented reality than for any clinical applications. There are other shortcuts you will see. (1) Prevention: diagnostics and procedures to prevent blindness. This is probably the most exciting and impactful area. (2) Using other parts of retina by clever optics (3) Sensory substitution: Map visual signals to other human senses like touch or sound. (4) SynthBiology: channelrhodopsin manipulation on the retinal pigment to make it light sensitive (5) Neural stimulation bypassing the optical path and more.

You can see many more videos you may not have seen in popular media here: http://www.mit.edu/~velten/press/content/

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