High Visibility - Special Glasses Help Faltering Eyesight

For 54-year-old John Balogh, the world is blurry and even the faces of the
people he loves slip away into a gray mist. 

"It is very similar to looking through a film," Balogh told Good Morning
America. "The colors are not as sharp and clear as they used to be and the
blurriness is a big issue."  

Balogh has optic neuropathy, a condition that causes parts of his vision to
melt away. Even while wearing magnifying lenses, simple pleasures like
reading to his two grandchildren became a chore. 

But researchers have developed a cutting-edge technology to help Balogh and
the more than 13 million Americans who have similar debilitating vision
conditions, such as macular degeneration (increasingly blurred or distorted
vision) or glaucoma. 

A tiny computer chip placed in the center of a pair of special glasses
captures and projects images via a liquid crystal display, directly onto the
patient's retina at 25 to 60 times their normal size. 

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