I was watching Lecture 4 of Nancy Kanwisher’s class “The Human Brain”, and it occurred to me that we could use augmented reality to simulate prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia, for those unfamiliar with the term, is “face blindness”. It affects about 2% of the population with varying degrees of severity, and those with prosopagnosia cannot recognize faces. In the in-person version of the course, the students observe demos to show off the importance of motion in vision, and color in vision...
