Practical Sensory Substitution In Real And Virtual Worlds: Development, Accessibility And Neuroscience

The main proposition behind this work is that current technology and recent results allow us to create new Sensory Substitution Devices which can break the barriers limiting their practical adoption, significantly increase the accessibility of computerized information and graphical virtual environments and open the door to fascinating possibilities in creating new augmented senses and exploring the neural basis of using them.

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