[optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and funding methodologies
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:09:49 -0500
Nick, I am utterly astounded by your story and devastated that you can't
continue with the device. After last night's back and forth, I realized that
with undeveloped optic nerve, I probably could not qualify, but I was so
hopeful for you and had no idea you'd have to give it up. I'm afraid I'd be
giving them a bad time about that one, if I had the opportunity for a device
that gave me any vision at all. I did have partial vision as a child, and
anything is better than nothing, I can say from experience.
DOG - Depend on God,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:58 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and
funding methodologies
We guinea pigs get to use it for a year. Mine ends in March.
I also realize what I understand as color is actually gray-scale data, but
it is the closest I've experienced to the visual textural differences I can
rerecognize as particular colors as my sighted cohorts see/experience them.
And, there is much I'd like to be able to see that I just can't yet or
possibly ever interpolate rapidly enough to make it useful in a particular
context.
For instance, I'd like to be able to get useful data from pictures on the
internet to see various buildings, air and space craft, animals, people,
Etc. but practically I'm not going to learn that in a year anymore than an
infant can learn to use their visual sensorum in all of its facilities in
their first year, nor do all sighted people use their sight with equal
efficacy... However, I suppose for a congenitally blind child, energy
levels and refractory time would be much improved... And, as I alluded to
before, looking at an object and isolating it from its surroundings in
varying lighting conditions isn't a particularly easy trick either.
Whereas, with the Optacon, one has more control of and relatively fewer
variables to contend with in the print environment and the essentially
binary nature of the reading experience, that is, a reed is either vibrating
to indicate a pixel in the matrix or it isn't. (smile)
Nick
D.O.S. Depend On Science
-----Original Message-----
From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of H & C Arnold
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:27 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and
funding methodologies
Nick, how long did it take you to adjust to the brain port? Did it take a
few months or a couple of years? Although I was born with some partial
sight, I realize that anyone without sight for a period of years would have
to learn to see like a stroke patient has to learn to walk again.
DOG - Depend on God,
Carolyn
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