GEORGE SKINDILIAS

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I see about half of what you do. So I “rebuilt” the device they gave me.

personal project · [year]–ongoing

I have hemianopia, no vision on my left side. Not darkness. Just absence. The fix I was offered was a plastic prism glued to a pair of glasses. This is what I've been building instead: signals that extend perception instead of interrupting it — visual, sonic, spatial.

Seeing more, one workaround at a time. ↘







Understanding partial vision



    To design for vision loss, I started by illustrating what it means to see with hemianopia.  


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Augmented Vision



My first thought experiments began with AR, VR, MR, XR.... Exploring how visual cues could compensate for blind spots.

Using gaze and environment data, subtle gradients or outlines could indicate unseen obstacles or key objects. The goal isn’t to overwhelm users, but to quietly enhance perception through light, contrast, and peripheral motion.




Let's start visualizing 


    Scenario: walking outside with some sort of enhanced vision
   Quick Idea

Picture this with low vision on the left side.
You're walking down the sidewalk; assuming you're looking straight, you might trip, or worse, walk into the tree if you're not paying attention.

In its simplest form, the blue line appears in the blind spot before a potential accident (calling attention to the obstacle being the tree)

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                                                                                            User experience preview rendered via image-to-video generation.


Enhanced vision can call attention to even more specific things in your surroundings, like someone in your peripheral vision.





Now that you get the general idea... here’s something a little more tangible





What I was offered as a “solution” is prism glasses    

More specifically, EP Horizontal Lenses. 
A type of visual field expander designed for individuals with homonymous hemianopsia

It's essentially a Fresnel Lens stuck onto glasses that redirects light from the blind spot in the peripheral visual field into the visible area.

It does work for some people, but it's mostly a blurry distraction

Now that we are in the future, it's the perfect transition for smart glasses!



Let's prototype the experience first 












Digital prism. 

Live customizable viewfinder overlay. A prototype reimagining the classic prism.





- Refined Generative prompt with GPT
- Quickly generate the .HTML with Claude artifacts


                           
With regular vision 



With Hemianopia
                *I don't see black; I just don't see,
if that makes sense



Notice how the blind spot is accessible in the viewfinder. Same fundamentals as the current prism glasses, just reimagined in higher fidelity.



This quick experience validated how a simple and classic visual layout can be repurposed functionally!


What the prism taught me

The medical version fails for a reason nobody mentioned: it's always on. It doesn't know when I need it, so it blurs the
rest of the time.  A digital one can. Same optical trick, but it only appears when there's something in the space I can't see.

A lens corrects vision. A system pays attention.

Next: mixed reality builds, and extending the other senses.


Some ways Vision-based tech can help those with low Vision

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