This reminds me of how my visual psychology professor was attempting to help those with poor vision 15 years ago, but didn't appear to get anywhere with at the

This reminds me of how my visual psychology professor was attempting to help those with poor vision 15 years ago, but didn't appear to get anywhere with at the time. The idea was a simple (but clever) one - use virtual reality to segment the world into solid blocks of identified objects. The solid blocks are identifiable to those with poor vision in a way that the real world is not. Essentially this meant processing an image, identifying items e.g. cars, fences, roads etc and then colouring them solid. So instead of a confusing scene of blur, you have a blurred but still identifiable scene of a solid strip of grey for the road, a solid blob of red for the car, another solid yellow stip for a fence etc. A poorly sighted person could still identify from this something that made sense in a way that they couldn't in the real world. What was required was an input, real time visual processing and then display back to the user - all of which was fantasy 15 year ago. However, attempt this today with a visual feed, real time processing like this, and then near instantaneous display of the results back to the person with e.g. google glass, and you might have a viable way to show the world categorised in a visual way that will help those with poor vision. Interesting times.