Existing retinal implant technology allows for limited navigation, such as avoiding obstacles or identifying bright doorways, but does not replicate naturalistic vision with spatial detail, color, or complex object recognition.

“it's nothing remotely resembling what we understand as naturalistic Vision where we see spine spatial detail and color and objects and can navigate complex environments and all that stuff no chance you can't do anything remot remotely like that you can see that there's a bright doorway over that way and turn toward it which is a helpful step in your Human Experience but there's a long way to go”