• Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    True, but couldn’t they make a visor that could do that for normally functioning eyes? Like, he could wear it as needed and see the world like normal too?

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      You would have to lose some sort of color if you use regular retinas to see a larger spectrum. You’d need new retinas with more cones to get new colors.

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      18 hours ago

      They address this at some point. Something about him not having eye nerves made direct access to his brain via the same neural pathways possible+ necessary. I believe the visor turns the entire EM spectrum directly into neural signals that his brain interprets as sight.