By stimulating thousands of individual cone cells, researchers made volunteers see a blue-green color of 'unprecedented saturation.'
Black Mirror, eat your heart out. Researchers have apparently just figured out how to make people see a color completely new to humanity.Friday in Science Advances. Using a technique called Oz, the research team induced human volunteers into seeing a color beyond the “natural human gamut.” Oz could allow scientists to conduct experiments previously not possible before, the authors say, and the lessons we learn from it might even someday help color-blind people regain their missing color vision.
Rather than trying to mix and match different wavelengths of light to produce color, their Oz system stimulates individual cone cells using safe microdoses of laser light. By applying these doses in just the right spatial pattern to only activate people’s M cones—something that isn’t naturally possible—they’ve figured out how to produce the perception of a brand new color.
Scientists have been able to stimulate a few cone cells at a time before, but the Oz system demonstrates that it’s possible to stimulate thousands of cone cells all at once. And the researchers are hopeful that Oz can have all sorts of potential uses down the line.
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