How It Works

From Eye to Image: What Actually Happens

No cameras. No trackers. Just the signal your eye already sends your brain.

The Chain, Step by Step

  1. 01

    The eye

    Your eye sends an electrical signal down the optic nerve toward your visual cortex. The same signal doctors already measure in a standard clinical test called a Visual Evoked Potential (VEP).

  2. 02

    The sensor

    An externally worn EEG sensor reads that signal.

  3. 03

    The software

    Aktevy's patented software translates the signal into digital image data.

  4. 04

    The display

    An AR or holographic display projects that image back before your eyes.

Steps two and four already exist, in hardware Meta, Lockheed, and others already develop. Aktevy's invention is step three.

Established Science vs. Aktevy's Own Contribution

Established, decades-old science

A VEP test measures electrical activity traveling from the eye to the visual cortex. Doctors use it to check for damage along the optic nerve. Separately, MIT research has shown the brain can process and identify an entire image in as little as 13 milliseconds, evidence of how fast and specific this signal pathway really is.

  1. Odom et al., "ISCEV standard for clinical visual evoked potentials: (2016 update)," Documenta Ophthalmologica, 2016. doi.org/10.1007/s10633-016-9553-y
  2. Potter et al., "Detecting meaning in RSVP at 13 ms per picture," Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2014. doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0605-z

Aktevy's contribution

We intend to catalyze the software to read that same signal in far more detail, reconstruct the image, and keep a live display running.

Where Things Stand Today

The patents lay out how this works, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with filings active in eight more jurisdictions. The software comes next. This is where Aktevy is headed.

  1. CompletePatents granted
  2. TodaySoftware developmentWhere things stand
  3. AheadVirtual cockpit with a defense partnerThe proof point
  4. AheadLicensing into commercial AR and XRFollows the proof point