Makes me think of Star Trek's Geordie LaForge, a blind engineer whose VISOR[0] not only gave him vision back, it extended it into IR, UV ranges and beyond[1].

Makes me think of Star Trek's Geordie LaForge, a blind engineer whose VISOR[0] not only gave him vision back, it extended it into IR, UV ranges and beyond[1]. (Curiously, for a show from 1990s, the visualization of what he sees[2] is eerily similar to images produced by misconfigured diffusion models.) -- [0] - Then futuristic; these days, I'm rather confident you could hack it up with VR glasses and enough sensors, leaving only the direct brain interface in the realm of sci-fi. Alas, the necessary suite of real sensors is still stupidly expensive AFAIK, way beyond a budget of a hobby project or even a product prototype. [1] - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/VISOR#Capabilities https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/VISOR#Capabilities [2] - There's some screencaps in the MemoryAlpha article I linked; can't link directly, because the site detects hotlinking.