Visual Telepathy: How Bionic Eyes Could Transform Communication

The developments in bionic eye technology and neural interfaces brought direct visual communication, or visual telepathy, closer to the real world. An effort would be made here to explain what visual telepathy is, how it can work in different fields, and the kind of problems that can emanate because of it. From several literature pieces and opinions of experts, it can be proved that there are huge benefits as well as immense challenges with this new form of communication. Results show that while visual telepathy sounds fascinating, privacy and security have to be handled with care.