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These where the first days of creation of the bionic eye by Gregg Suaning and Nigel Lovell.
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In early 2002 Gregg Sauning moved to the Univerisity of Newcastle for more training.
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In 2004 it was declared that 50,000 people were legally blind in Australia and so the bionic eye was seen as unnecersary.
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Gregg Suaning and Nigel Lovell attend Eye and Chip Congress in Detroit, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmolgy.
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In late 2007 Gregg Sauning returns to UNSW (Univerisity of New South Wales) as an associalte professor.
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Over a four year period begining on the 1st of January Australian Federal Government awarded a $42 million ARC grant to Bionic Vision Australia to develop bionic vision technology.
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Kevin Rudd launched Bionic Vision Australia, a group fromed of Australian Vision Prosthesis Group at UNSW, University of Melbourne, University of Western Sydney, Australian National University, Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bionic Ear Institute and NICTA.
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The first advanced prototype of the bionic eye was released.
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BVA are approximately a year away from completing the fifteen year project.
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The first human trials are planned to take place.
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The bionic eye is on track to be finished by 2014
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The high definition prototype consisting of 1000 electrodes is to be ready for testing.