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Vision

Vision is the physiological process by which living organisms detect and interpret electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum, primarily through photoreceptor cells in the eyes that convert light into neural signals processed by the brain to form perceptual images of the environment.^[1]^[2] In humans, this sense relies on the coordinated function of ocular structures including the cornea for refraction, the lens for focusing, the retina containing rods and cones for light transduction, the optic nerve for signal transmission, and the visual cortex for higher-order interpretation.^[3]^[1] As the dominant sensory modality, vision accounts for the majority of environmental information processed by the brain, facilitating navigation, object recognition, and interaction with the physical world across a range of wavelengths from approximately 400 to 700 nanometers.^[2]^[3] Evolutionary adaptations have refined human vision for trichromatic color discrimination, depth perception via binocular disparity, and motion detection, though limitations such as the foveal blind spot and susceptibility to illusions underscore its constructive rather than veridical nature.^[1]^[4]

Sensory and Biological Vision

Anatomy and Physiology of Human Vision

The human eye functions as a complex optical instrument that refracts light to form an inverted image on the retina, where photochemical reactions initiate neural signaling for visual perception. The eyeball measures approximately 24 mm in anterior-posterior diameter in adults and is enclosed by three principal layers: the fibrous outer tunic (sclera and cornea), the vascular middle uvea (choroid, ciliary body, and iris), and the inner neural retina. Light enters through the transparent cornea, which provides about two-thirds of the eye's refractive power (approximately 43 diopters), passes through the aqueous humor filling the anterior chamber, and is further focused by the crystalline lens (about 20 diopters at rest) before traversing the vitreous humor to reach the retina.^[1]^[3] The retina, a thin multilayered neural tissue lining the posterior eye, contains photoreceptor cells—rods and cones—that detect light via phototransduction. Rods, numbering around 120 million, predominate in peripheral regions and mediate low-light (scotopic) vision with high sensitivity but no color discrimination; cones, about 6 million in total, are concentrated in the central fovea (with densities up to 200,000 per mm²) and enable high-acuity, color vision under brighter (photopic) conditions, with subtypes sensitive to short (blue), medium (green), and long (red) wavelengths. In phototransduction, photons absorbed by photopigments (rhodopsin in rods, iodopsins in cones) cause isomerization of retinal from 11-cis to all-trans form, activating a G-protein cascade that closes cGMP-gated sodium channels, hyperpolarizing the photoreceptor and reducing glutamate release onto bipolar cells. This graded potential propagates through bipolar and horizontal/amacrine interneurons to retinal ganglion cells, whose axons form the optic nerve.^[5]^[6] Visual signals exit via the optic nerve (containing about 1.2 million fibers per eye), partially decussate at the optic chiasm (nasal fibers crossing), and continue as optic tracts to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus, where relay neurons organize inputs into retinotopic maps preserving spatial information. From the LGN, geniculocalcarine tracts (optic radiations) project to the primary visual cortex (V1) in the occipital lobe, initiating feature extraction such as orientation and motion. Parallel pathways emerge early: magnocellular (M) for motion/depth via rods and parasol ganglion cells, and parvocellular (P) for color/form via cones and midget ganglion cells.^[7] Physiologically, accommodation adjusts focus for near objects (up to 10 cm in youth) by parasympathetic stimulation of the ciliary muscle, which contracts to relax zonular fibers, allowing the elastic lens to thicken and increase curvature (from ~10 diopters at age 20 to near zero by age 50 due to presbyopia). Pupil size modulates via iris sphincter/dilator muscles, constricting in bright light to enhance depth of field. Visual acuity peaks at 20/20 or better in the fovea, limited by cone spacing and neural convergence (fewer in fovea for resolution). Dark adaptation involves rhodopsin regeneration, taking 20-30 minutes for full rod sensitivity.^[1]

Neural Processing and Perception

Visual signals begin with phototransduction in retinal photoreceptors—approximately 120 million rods for low-light and motion detection, and 6 million cones for color and high-acuity vision—where light activates opsins, leading to hyperpolarization and neurotransmitter release to bipolar and horizontal cells.^[8] Ganglion cells integrate these signals, generating action potentials transmitted via the optic nerve; about 1 million fibers per eye converge at the optic chiasm, with partial decussation to preserve binocular fields, before synapsing in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus.^[8] The LGN relays segregated magnocellular (M) pathway inputs for coarse, motion-sensitive processing and parvocellular (P) pathway inputs for fine detail and color, maintaining retinotopic organization.^[8] From the LGN, projections target the primary visual cortex (V1, Brodmann area 17) in the occipital lobe's calcarine sulcus, where neurons exhibit orientation selectivity, detecting edges and simple features via center-surround receptive fields refined by lateral inhibition.^[8] V1 neurons, numbering around 200 million, form a columnar organization with ocular dominance and orientation columns, processing inputs hierarchically: simple cells respond to oriented bars, while complex cells to motion in preferred directions.^[9] This stage amplifies contrasts and begins feature binding, but V1 lesions cause scotomas without eliminating perception entirely due to subcortical bypasses.^[8] Extrastriate areas extend processing along dorsal ("where/how") and ventral ("what") streams: the dorsal stream, via V2, V3, and MT/V5 (area sensitive to direction and speed, with neurons firing at 100-200 Hz for motion), supports spatial awareness and visuomotor control; the ventral stream, through V4 (color and form processing) to inferotemporal cortex, enables object recognition.^[10] V4 neurons, for instance, show wavelength selectivity beyond retinal inputs, integrating contour completion.^[11] Hierarchical convergence in inferotemporal areas achieves invariant representations, as evidenced by single-cell recordings responding selectively to faces or hands despite viewpoint changes.^[9] Perception emerges from recurrent interactions between feedforward sensory signals and top-down attentional modulation, where prefrontal and parietal inputs bias V1-V4 activity for figure-ground segregation and Gestalt grouping (e.g., proximity, continuity).^[12] Illusions like the Kanizsa triangle demonstrate predictive coding, where the brain infers contours from incomplete data, minimizing prediction errors via Bayesian inference grounded in priors from experience.^[13] Conscious vision correlates with synchronized gamma oscillations (30-80 Hz) across areas, binding features temporally, though debates persist on whether V1 activity suffices for awareness or requires higher-order amplification.^[12] Blindsight cases, where patients discriminate stimuli subcortically without qualia, underscore dissociation between processing and reportable perception.^[13]

Evolutionary Origins and Comparative Vision in Animals

The capacity for light detection in animals traces back to ancient photoreceptive proteins such as opsins, which enable basic phototaxis in unicellular organisms and early metazoans predating the Cambrian period by hundreds of millions of years.^[14] These proteins, functioning via G-protein-coupled receptor mechanisms, allowed simple behavioral responses to light gradients, forming the foundational step toward imaging vision without requiring complex structures.^[15] Fossil evidence and molecular phylogenies indicate that high-resolution eyes emerged rapidly during the Cambrian explosion around 540–521 million years ago, coinciding with the diversification of bilaterian animals and an inferred predator-prey arms race driven by visual predation.^[16]^[17] Complex eyes evolved convergently multiple times—estimated at 40 or more instances across metazoans—yielding distinct architectures adapted to ecological pressures like light availability and mobility demands.^[18] Arthropods, including trilobites from ~521 million years ago, developed compound eyes composed of numerous ommatidia, each forming a pixel-like image for panoramic views and superior motion detection, though with coarser resolution than single-lens systems.^[19] In contrast, vertebrates and cephalopods independently evolved camera-type eyes featuring a single lens, iris, and retina for focused, high-acuity imaging; cephalopod versions invert the retina to minimize neural shadows, achieving comparable performance to vertebrate eyes despite inverted wiring.^[20] These innovations, supported by conserved developmental genes like Pax6, underscore how incremental selections for improved spatial resolution propelled vision from diffuse sensitivity to precise object recognition.^[17] Comparative analysis reveals profound adaptations in visual systems across taxa, reflecting habitat-specific optimizations rather than a uniform progression. Insects' compound eyes excel in detecting rapid movements via temporal summation across ommatidia, enabling evasion in cluttered environments, but sacrifice fine detail for a near-360-degree field.^[21] Birds of prey, such as eagles, surpass human acuity with visual resolutions up to 140 cycles per degree versus humans' 60, aided by denser cone photoreceptors and foveal pits for distant foraging.^[22] Many invertebrates and birds possess ultraviolet-sensitive opsins, expanding spectral range for tasks like pollination or mate selection, while deep-sea cephalopods adapt to low light with large pupils and bioluminescent counter-illumination.^[23] Nocturnal mammals emphasize rod-dominated retinas for scotopic vision, trading color discrimination for sensitivity, as quantified in acuity studies across 600 species showing orders-of-magnitude variation tied to lifestyle.^[22] Such diversity demonstrates vision's modularity, where photoreceptor tuning and optics evolve under selective pressures for survival advantages like foraging efficiency or camouflage detection.^[24]

Visual Impairments and Corrective Technologies

Visual impairments encompass a range of conditions that reduce visual acuity, visual field, or contrast sensitivity, classified by the World Health Organization into distance vision impairment (affecting far vision) and near vision impairment (affecting close tasks), with blindness defined as visual acuity worse than 3/60 or field restriction to less than 10 degrees in the better eye.^[25] Globally, at least 2.2 billion people experience some form of vision impairment, with approximately 1 billion cases attributable to preventable or treatable causes such as uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts.^[25] The leading causes include uncorrected refractive errors (accounting for 86.1 million cases of moderate to severe impairment), cataracts (78.8 million cases), age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income populations due to limited access to care.^[26] ^[25] Refractive errors, such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism, constitute the most prevalent correctable impairments, distorting light focus on the retina due to corneal or lens irregularities. Corrective spectacles, invented in Italy during the 13th century by monks using convex glass lenses to aid presbyopia, remain the primary intervention, with modern frames developed in 1727 by Edward Scarlett for secure nasal placement.^[27] ^[28] Contact lenses, evolving from glass scleral prototypes in 1887 by F.A. Mueller to rigid plastic versions in the 1940s and soft hydrogel lenses in the 1970s, provide alternatives by directly resting on the cornea, with toric designs addressing astigmatism and extended-wear options enabling overnight use.^[29] ^[30] For permanent correction, laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK), which reshapes the cornea using an excimer laser after creating a flap, received FDA approval in 1999 following earlier photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) approval in 1995, effectively treating refractive errors in millions annually with high success rates for myopia and hyperopia.^[31] Cataracts, involving lens opacification, are surgically addressed via phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation, restoring clarity in over 94 million affected individuals worldwide. For degenerative conditions like glaucoma or macular degeneration leading to irreversible photoreceptor loss, corrective options are limited, but visual prostheses offer partial restoration; epiretinal or subretinal implants, such as those in the Argus II system, electrically stimulate surviving retinal cells, though with low-resolution phosphene perception. Recent advancements include a wireless retinal prosthesis tested in 2025 clinical trials, enabling patients with advanced macular degeneration to regain functional vision for tasks like object recognition.^[25] ^[32] ^[33] Inherited retinal dystrophies, caused by genetic mutations, have seen breakthroughs via gene therapy; Luxturna, approved by the FDA in 2017 for RPE65-related Leber congenital amaurosis, delivers functional genes via subretinal viral vectors to halt photoreceptor degeneration. CRISPR-based editing trials, reported in 2024, improved visual acuity in patients with inherited blindness by targeting specific mutations, demonstrating safety and efficacy in small cohorts with up to 100-fold sensitivity gains in some cases. These therapies underscore causal mechanisms—deficient protein production leading to cell death—but outcomes vary by disease stage and mutation type, with ongoing trials emphasizing early intervention.^[34] ^[35] ^[36]

Cognitive and Metaphorical Vision

Foresight, Planning, and Decision-Making

Foresight, understood as prospection, constitutes the cognitive process by which individuals simulate future events to guide planning and decision-making, drawing on episodic memory to construct hypothetical scenarios. This mechanism supports goal-directed behavior by enabling the mental rehearsal of actions and their consequences, thereby facilitating resource prioritization and adaptive strategies over impulsive responses.^[37] ^[38] In decision-making, prospection incorporates anticipatory emotions—pre-feelings of pleasure or aversion toward projected outcomes—altering perceived values and tipping preferences toward delayed rewards when future simulations evoke stronger motivations. Empirical evidence from intertemporal choice experiments indicates that vivid episodic foresight reduces impulsivity, as participants who mentally envision future needs exhibit greater patience in forgoing immediate gains.^[39] ^[40] For example, high worry levels during prospection can diminish foresight depth, favoring short-term options, while positive anticipation enhances long-term orientation.^[41] Planning relies on foresight to bridge current states and desired futures, yet human limitations introduce systematic errors; the planning fallacy, wherein individuals underestimate completion times by 20-30% on average across tasks, arises from insufficient anchoring to base rates and over-optimism rooted in representative scenarios rather than statistical realities. This bias persists despite historical data, as evidenced in meta-analyses of project timelines in diverse domains, leading to frequent overruns in personal, professional, and policy endeavors.^[42] ^[43] Organizational foresight extends individual cognition, with empirical surveys of 400 managers revealing that structured internal foresight practices—such as scenario modeling—correlate with elevated strategy discourse and resilience to disruptions, countering bounded rationality by expanding decision horizons beyond immediate data. Neuroscientific correlates implicate networks overlapping episodic memory (hippocampus) and executive function (prefrontal cortex), where disruptions impair future-oriented choices, as seen in patients with medial temporal lobe damage who default to present-biased decisions.^[44] ^[45]

Spiritual and Supernatural Visions

Spiritual and supernatural visions encompass subjective perceptual experiences in which individuals report observing entities, scenes, or revelations purportedly originating from divine, ethereal, or otherworldly sources, distinct from ordinary sensory input. These phenomena, often described as apparitions of deities, angels, or prophetic imagery, have been documented in religious texts and personal testimonies across cultures, with claimants asserting direct supernatural causation. However, empirical analysis attributes such visions primarily to neurobiological mechanisms, including altered brain activity in regions processing emotion, memory, and self-referential thought, rather than external metaphysical intervention.^[46] In clinical contexts, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is strongly associated with intensified religious experiences, including vivid visions and a sense of divine presence. Patients with TLE exhibit hyper-religiosity in up to 20-30% of cases, reporting seizures that trigger ecstatic or mystical perceptions akin to those described in spiritual narratives, such as feelings of unity with the divine or auditory-visual hallucinations of holy figures.^[47] For example, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, diagnosed retrospectively with TLE, documented recurrent "Dostoyevsky seizures" involving brief, overwhelming visions of infinite space and spiritual rapture, occurring multiple times daily and contrasting with rarer, non-pathological religious epiphanies in healthy individuals.^[48] Neuroimaging and lesion studies further link these to hyperactivity in the temporal lobes, where damage or stimulation—via electrical probes or magnetic fields—produces similar hallucinatory content without requiring supernatural hypotheses.^[49] Psychedelic-induced visions, which parallel many historical accounts of supernatural encounters, provide additional causal evidence through pharmacological mechanisms. Substances like psilocybin or DMT activate serotonin receptors (e.g., 5-HT2A), disrupting default mode network activity and generating hyper-vivid imagery interpreted as transcendent, effects replicated in controlled trials and aligning with endogenous brain states during fasting, sleep deprivation, or meditation that precipitate spontaneous visions.^[50] Historical figures claiming prophetic visions, such as those in medieval Christian mysticism, often align with profiles of neurological vulnerability, including migraine auras or cortical spreading depression, which produce formed visual hallucinations via occipital-temporoparietal disruptions.^[51] No peer-reviewed evidence confirms literal supernatural agency; instead, cross-cultural consistency in visionary content reflects universal brain architecture, with interpretive frameworks shaped by cultural priors rather than veridical external input.^[52] Skeptical evaluations highlight that while subjective conviction in visions' authenticity is near-universal among experiencers, objective validation—via independent corroboration or falsifiable predictions—remains absent, underscoring their status as endogenous cognitive events. Experimental induction via transcranial magnetic stimulation of temporal regions elicits "felt presences" or apparitional perceptions in non-religious subjects, further demonstrating brain-localized origins.^[53] This neurocentric model privileges causal realism, explaining phenomena through verifiable physiological pathways while dismissing unsubstantiated supernatural claims lacking empirical support.

Organizational and Leadership Vision Statements

Organizational vision statements articulate an entity's aspirational future state, serving as a guiding framework for strategic decisions and cultural alignment. In management literature, they emerged prominently in the late 1980s, with Kouzes and Posner defining them as articulations of a compelling future that fosters commitment among stakeholders.^[54] These statements differ from mission statements by emphasizing long-term ideals over current operations, often projecting 5–10 years ahead to inspire innovation and persistence amid challenges.^[55] Effective vision statements exhibit specific traits validated through empirical analysis of high-performing organizations. Research identifies conciseness (typically under 100 words), clarity in language, abstractness to allow flexibility, future orientation, and inherent challenge to motivate effort, alongside desirability that resonates emotionally with members.^[56] For instance, visions that build collective self-efficacy and purpose correlate with higher organizational performance metrics, such as employee engagement and adaptability, though causal links require ongoing execution beyond mere declaration.^[57] Broad scope avoids quantifiable metrics, focusing instead on qualitative aspirations like market leadership or societal impact, enabling sustained relevance.^[58] In leadership contexts, vision statements function as tools for foresight and mobilization, where executives translate cognitive projections into shared directives. Leaders like those at established firms craft them to align teams toward causal pathways of success, such as resource allocation and risk assessment, drawing from first-principles evaluation of competitive landscapes. Empirical studies affirm that leader-articulated visions enhance decision-making coherence when they emphasize stability and challenge, fostering resilience in volatile environments.^[57] However, their efficacy hinges on authenticity; disconnected visions fail to drive behavior, as evidenced by surveys showing widespread employee unfamiliarity with corporate declarations.^[59] Prominent examples illustrate these principles in practice. Alphabet Inc.'s vision, "to provide access to the world's information in one click," exemplifies brevity and future focus, underpinning algorithmic advancements since its 1998 origins under Larry Page and Sergey Brin.^[60] IKEA's "to create a better everyday life for the many people" reflects desirability and broad scope, guiding product design since Ingvar Kamprad's 1943 founding, with sustained emphasis on affordability.^[61] Conversely, criticisms highlight frequent pitfalls: many statements devolve into vague platitudes lacking actionable ties, undermining credibility when leadership fails to embody them, as seen in cases where aspirational rhetoric masks operational inertia.^[62] Such disconnects, per management analyses, arise from over-reliance on consultant-driven processes rather than grounded strategic reasoning, reducing their role to performative exercises.^[63]

Technological and Scientific Applications

Computer Vision Algorithms and History

Computer vision emerged in the mid-20th century as researchers sought to enable machines to interpret visual data, initially driven by artificial intelligence ambitions at institutions like MIT. In 1963, Larry Roberts published his doctoral thesis at MIT, "Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids," which introduced early techniques for edge detection and 3D reconstruction from 2D images, laying foundational principles for interpreting line drawings as solid objects.^[64] This work emphasized deriving 3D structure from shading and edges, influencing subsequent geometric modeling approaches. By 1966, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory launched the Summer Vision Project under Seymour Papert, tasking summer students with connecting a camera to a computer to automatically identify objects in a scene, such as distinguishing bricks from background; though ambitious, it highlighted the complexity of segmentation and recognition, achieving only partial success due to limited computational power.^[65]^[66] Theoretical advancements in the 1970s and 1980s formalized computer vision as a computational problem. David Marr's 1982 book, Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, proposed a tri-level framework—computational theory (what is the goal?), representation and algorithm (how is it achieved?), and physical implementation (hardware mechanisms)—to dissect visual processing from raw pixels to 3D models.^[67] Marr's primal sketch (early edges and textures), 2.5D sketch (depth and orientation), and 3D model representations drew from neurophysiology and geometry, advocating modular pipelines for tasks like stereo matching and shape from shading, though critiqued for underemphasizing learning and top-down influences. Classical algorithms proliferated: the Hough transform (1962, Paul Hough) for line detection via parameter space voting; Canny edge detector (1986, John Canny) optimizing signal-to-noise ratio, localization, and non-maximum suppression; and optical flow estimation (1981, Berthold Horn and Brian Schunck) for motion analysis using brightness constancy assumptions.^[68] Feature-based methods advanced in the 1990s and 2000s, enabling robust matching invariant to scale and viewpoint. David Lowe's Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT, 1999) detects keypoints via difference-of-Gaussian pyramids, describes them with 128-dimensional histograms of oriented gradients, and supports applications like panorama stitching and object retrieval; its patent expired in 2020, facilitating widespread adoption. Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG, 2005, Navneet Dalal and Bill Triggs) captured edge directions in local cells for pedestrian detection, proving effective in support vector machine classifiers. Randomized Sample Consensus (RANSAC, 1981, Martin Fischler and Robert Bolles) iteratively estimated model parameters from inlier data, robust to outliers in tasks like homography fitting.^[69] The 2010s marked a paradigm shift with deep learning, supplanting handcrafted features through end-to-end trainable networks. Alex Krizhevsky's AlexNet (2012), a convolutional neural network with 8 layers, 60 million parameters, ReLU activations, and dropout, won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge by reducing top-5 error to 15.3%—a 10.8 percentage point margin over prior methods—leveraging GPU acceleration and data augmentation to handle overfitting on 1.2 million labeled images.^[70] This breakthrough revived neural networks, inspiring architectures like VGG (2014), ResNet (2015) for residual learning, and subsequent object detectors (e.g., YOLO, 2015), shifting focus from explicit algorithms to implicit feature learning via backpropagation, though requiring vast datasets and compute, raising concerns over generalization beyond benchmarks.^[71] Modern pipelines integrate transformers (e.g., Vision Transformer, 2020) for global attention, but classical methods persist in resource-constrained or interpretable settings.

Applications in AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

Computer vision serves as a core perceptual modality in AI, robotics, and autonomous systems, allowing machines to extract meaningful information from visual data through techniques such as object detection, semantic segmentation, and depth estimation. These capabilities rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and other deep learning architectures to process camera feeds in real-time, enabling decision-making based on spatial understanding and pattern recognition. For instance, in AI-driven image analysis, models trained on large datasets like ImageNet achieve over 90% accuracy in classifying thousands of object categories, underpinning applications from surveillance to medical diagnostics.^[72] In robotics, computer vision facilitates autonomous navigation and manipulation, with visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms allowing robots to construct 3D environmental maps while tracking their position, as demonstrated in systems like ORB-SLAM since its introduction in 2015. This has been applied in warehouse automation, where robots use edge detection and pose estimation to pick and place items, reducing error rates in grasping tasks to below 5% in industrial trials. Gesture recognition via pose estimation further enables human-robot interaction, such as collaborative assembly lines where robots interpret operator movements for safe coordination.^[73]^[74] Autonomous vehicles exemplify vision's integration across sensor fusion and planning, with systems processing multi-camera inputs for lane detection using Hough transforms and CNNs, achieving detection accuracies above 98% on datasets like TuSimple. Tesla's approach emphasizes vision-only perception through its eight-camera setup and HydraNet architecture, which runs over 50 neural networks concurrently to interpret surroundings without lidar, as implemented in Full Self-Driving hardware since 2019. In contrast, Waymo employs a hybrid system combining cameras with lidar and radar for robust depth perception, enabling Level 4 autonomy in geofenced areas with over 20 million miles of validated driving data by 2023. These methods highlight ongoing debates on redundancy versus scalability, with vision-dominant systems prioritizing cost reduction—cameras cost under $100 each versus thousands for lidar—while multi-modal setups mitigate edge cases like low-light conditions.^[75]^[76]^[77]

Augmented and Virtual Reality Devices

Augmented reality (AR) devices overlay digital information onto the user's physical environment, enhancing real-world perception through see-through displays or cameras, while virtual reality (VR) devices create fully immersive synthetic environments that occlude the real world using opaque screens.^[78] Both rely on head-mounted displays (HMDs) to simulate aspects of human vision, such as stereoscopic depth and wide fields of view, but AR preserves passthrough of natural light for alignment with reality, whereas VR generates all visual input computationally.^[79] The foundational HMD for both technologies emerged in 1968 with Ivan Sutherland's "Sword of Damocles," a cumbersome rig suspended from the ceiling that displayed simple wireframe graphics in real-time, marking the first attempt to couple head movements to rendered visuals.^[80] VR concepts trace further to Morton Heilig's 1960 Sensorama, a multi-sensory booth simulating motion and visuals, though not fully head-tracked.^[81] AR as a distinct term was coined in 1990 by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell, with the first operational system demonstrated in 1992 using fiducial markers for overlay registration.^[79] Commercial traction accelerated in the 2010s: Oculus VR's 2012 Kickstarter for the Rift headset raised $2.4 million, revitalizing VR hardware with low-latency tracking and 90 Hz refresh rates to mitigate motion sickness.^[81] AR milestones include Niantic's 2016 Pokémon GO, which leveraged smartphone cameras for markerless overlays, achieving over 1 billion downloads by 2023.^[78] Vision simulation in these devices centers on binocular displays mimicking human stereopsis, with resolutions targeting 20/20 acuity—approximately 60 pixels per degree—and fields of view (FOV) approaching the eye's 210° horizontal span, though most achieve 90-120°.^[82] VR headsets like the Meta Quest 3 employ dual LCD panels with pancake lenses for compact optics, delivering 2064x2208 pixels per eye at up to 120 Hz to reduce perceived latency below 20 ms, essential for vestibular-visual congruence.^[83] AR systems, such as Microsoft's HoloLens 2 (2019), use holographic waveguides for transparent overlays, supporting 2K resolution per eye but limited to 52° diagonal FOV due to light efficiency constraints in diffractive optics.^[84] Eye-tracking integration, as in the 2024 Apple Vision Pro with micro-OLED displays at 3660x3200 per eye and foveated rendering, dynamically allocates pixels to the gaze center, conserving compute while approximating natural visual acuity gradients.^[85] Prominent 2025 devices include the HTC Vive Pro 2 for tethered VR, offering 2448x2448 per-eye resolution via dual LCDs for high-fidelity rendering in professional simulations, paired with 120° FOV base stations for sub-millimeter tracking accuracy.^[86] Standalone options like the Meta Quest 3S prioritize affordability with 1832x1920 per-eye displays and inside-out tracking via cameras, enabling room-scale experiences without external sensors.^[87] For AR, emerging passthrough hybrids like the anticipated 2025 Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses provide 1080p per eye through birdbath optics, focusing on lightweight form factors under 80 grams for extended wear.^[84] Persistent challenges in vision fidelity include the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), where eyes converge on virtual depth but focus on fixed display planes, inducing fatigue and blur; solutions like varifocal lenses remain experimental due to mechanical complexity.^[82] Current resolutions fall short of retinal limits, with pixel densities yielding effective acuity around 20/40, compounded by aliasing in low-FOV scenarios. Depth perception errors persist from monocular cues' unreliability in VR, where users overestimate distances by up to 30% without haptic feedback.^[88] Motion sickness affects 20-30% of users, stemming from inter-sensory mismatches, though mitigated by predictive rendering algorithms reducing slip to under 10 ms.^[82] AR registration errors, often 1-5 mm due to IMU drift, demand SLAM algorithms for real-time environmental mapping.^[89]

Policy and Strategic Initiatives in Science and Technology

The United States coordinates artificial intelligence research and development, including computer vision components, through the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, with its 2023 update prioritizing advancements in perception technologies for applications such as robotics and autonomous systems.^[90] This plan, overseen by the National Science and Technology Council, emphasizes federal investments in foundational AI capabilities, allocating resources across agencies like the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense to foster innovations in visual data processing and machine learning algorithms.^[90] In July 2025, the America's AI Action Plan further outlined three pillars—accelerating innovation, building infrastructure, and leading in international diplomacy—to enhance AI competitiveness, with computer vision playing a key role in sectors like manufacturing and defense through targeted data and compute investments.^[91] In the European Union, the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), entering into force in August 2024, establishes a risk-based regulatory framework specifically addressing computer vision systems, classifying many as high-risk when deployed in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, biometric categorization, or emotion recognition.^[92] Providers of high-risk vision technologies must conduct conformity assessments, ensure data quality to mitigate biases, and implement human oversight, with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover for non-compliance.^[93] The Act prohibits unacceptable-risk uses like real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces by law enforcement except under narrow exceptions, aiming to balance innovation with fundamental rights protection.^[92] China's strategic approach integrates computer vision into its broader AI ambitions via the 2025 AI+ Action Plan, which seeks to embed AI across 90% of economic sectors by 2030, leveraging vision technologies for industrial upgrading in manufacturing, surveillance, and smart cities.^[94] This layered strategy, coordinated by the Chinese Communist Party, prioritizes self-reliance in core technologies, with state-backed investments exceeding $10 billion annually in AI hardware and algorithms, including vision-enabled systems for national security and export-oriented industries.^[95] Complementary efforts, such as the Global AI Governance Action Plan released in July 2025, promote international standards while advancing domestic vision tech dominance through subsidies and talent programs.^[96] Internationally, initiatives like the U.S.-led efforts in AI diplomacy under the 2023 Strategic Plan update encourage collaborations on trustworthy AI, including shared standards for computer vision in areas like supply chain resilience, though tensions over data sovereignty limit deeper integration with competitors like China.^[97] These policies reflect a consensus on computer vision's dual-use potential, driving $ billions in global R&D funding amid geopolitical rivalries.^[98]

Cultural and Artistic Representations

Literature and Philosophical Works

In ancient philosophy, Aristotle outlined a theory of vision in De Anima, positing that visual perception arises from the interaction of light, a transparent medium, and the eye's capacity to receive the form of visible objects without their matter, emphasizing three elements: the visible object, the medium, and the sense organ itself.^[99] This extramission-like framework influenced subsequent thought until challenged by empirical observations. Medieval Islamic scholar Ibn al-Haytham, in his Book of Optics (circa 1021), advanced an intromissionist model where light rays enter the eye to form images, laying groundwork for modern optics by demonstrating how the eye captures spatial structure through rectilinear propagation of light.^[100] In early modern philosophy, George Berkeley's An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (1709) argued that visual ideas provide distance cues via association with tactile experiences rather than direct geometric inference, challenging innate spatial perception and supporting his broader immaterialism where objects exist as perceptions in a mind.^[101] René Descartes, in La Dioptrique (1637), integrated mechanistic optics with physiology, describing vision as rays refracted through the eye's lens to project inverted images onto the pineal gland, linking physical causation to mental representation.^[102] Nicolas Malebranche extended this in his doctrine of "Vision in God" (late 17th century), proposing that humans perceive external objects not directly but through divine ideas in God's mind, reconciling occasionalism with sensory immediacy.^[103] Twentieth-century philosophy shifted toward enactive and ecological approaches, as in Alva Noë's Action in Perception (2004), which contends that vision is not a passive internal representation but an active exploration of the environment, where perceptual content depends on sensorimotor contingencies and worldly engagement.^[104] This contrasts with representationalist views in analytic philosophy, such as those addressing the "problem of perception," which debates whether illusions undermine direct realism about sensory objects.^[102] In literature, vision often serves as a metaphor for enlightenment or delusion, as in Dante Alighieri's Paradiso (1320), where celestial visions symbolize divine order and intellectual ascent, structured through Beatrice's guidance toward ultimate truth.^[105] William Blake's prophetic works, like The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), draw from personal visions to critique rationalism, portraying vision as a higher imaginative faculty transcending empirical sight.^[106] John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) employs visionary sequences, such as Satan's aerial perspectives, to explore moral perception and the fall from divine clarity to distorted human understanding.^[105] These works treat vision not merely as sensory but as revelatory, often tied to spiritual or ethical insight, though interpretations vary by authorial intent and historical context.

Comics and Graphic Novels

In superhero comics, enhanced vision powers have been a staple since the genre's inception, often serving as metaphors for superior perception or surveillance capabilities. Superman, debuting in Action Comics #1 in 1938, gained x-ray vision in Action Comics #11 (April 1939), allowing him to see through objects except lead, with telescopic and microscopic variants appearing shortly thereafter.^[107] Heat vision, enabling the emission of intense beams from his eyes, was formalized as a distinct power in Action Comics #275 (April 1961), powered by absorbed solar energy under Earth's yellow sun.^[108] These abilities, evolving from pulp fiction influences, emphasize physical superiority but have been critiqued for escalating power creep, as later iterations added infrared and other spectra detection.^[109] Alternative depictions of vision loss and compensation appear prominently in characters like Daredevil, whose radar sense—debuting in Daredevil #1 (1964)—functions as a heightened extranormal perception combining echolocation, electromagnetic sensitivity, and acute hearing to "see" surroundings in three dimensions without visual input.^[110] This power, inspired by real-world echolocation in blind individuals, allows navigation, combat, and object detection but varies in depiction across runs, sometimes portrayed as overwhelming or color-perceptive.^[111] Similarly, Marvel's Vision, a synthezoid introduced in Avengers #57 (1968), projects solar energy beams from a forehead gem, mimicking eye-based emissions and drawing from absorbed sunlight for offensive capabilities.^[112] Prophetic or foresight-based visions recur as narrative devices, injecting tension through foreknowledge of events. In Marvel titles, characters like Destiny exhibit precognition, foreseeing mutant futures to influence plots, while Moon Knight receives divine visions from the god Khonshu, blending prophecy with psychological insight.^[113] These elements, rooted in mythological tropes, often drive moral dilemmas rather than literal super-sight, as seen in arcs involving cosmic prophecies like the Celestial Madonna saga.^[114] Graphic novels increasingly explore literal visual impairments, moving beyond superhero tropes to personal narratives. Four Eyes (2021) by Rex Ogle recounts the author's childhood struggles with severe nearsightedness, bullying, and adaptation via glasses, highlighting socioeconomic barriers to corrective care.^[115] Know Before You Go: Vision Therapy (publication date circa 2020s) demystifies optometric therapy for children, depicting exercises to improve focus and tracking through a protagonist's anxieties.^[116] Works like Unseen (2019), an audio-described comic for the blind, challenge the medium's visual exclusivity by prioritizing auditory and tactile storytelling.^[117] These titles underscore comics' potential for accessibility, countering the format's inherent sight-dependence.^[118]

Film, Television, and Media Characters

Vision, portrayed by Paul Bettany, serves as a central synthezoid character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), embodying artificial intelligence fused with superhuman capabilities derived from the Mind Stone.^[119] Introduced as an ally to the Avengers, Vision possesses the ability to manipulate his density, allowing him to phase through solid matter, achieve near-invulnerability, and project solar energy beams from a gem embedded in his forehead.^[120] This density control, combined with flight and enhanced computational processing from his integration of J.A.R.V.I.S. software, positions him as a philosophical and combat-oriented figure grappling with concepts of humanity and free will.^[119] Vision debuts in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), where the villain Ultron constructs his vibranium body using Helen Cho's Regeneration Cradle, intending it as a vessel for global extinction; however, Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. overrides the system, and Thor's lightning animates the form, awakening Vision with moral autonomy and the Mind Stone.^[120]^[121] He swiftly joins the Avengers, demonstrating his powers by wielding Mjolnir—proving worthiness—and aiding in Ultron's defeat, establishing his role as a defender against existential threats.^[120] In Captain America: Civil War (2016), Vision aligns with Tony Stark's faction supporting the Sokovia Accords, attempting to mediate internal conflicts while honing his abilities; during a confrontation, his imprecise density modulation inadvertently damages War Machine's suit, paralyzing James Rhodes and highlighting the risks of his emerging powers.^[120]^[122] His romantic entanglement with Wanda Maximoff begins here, evolving into a key dynamic explored in subsequent media.^[119] Vision meets his demise in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), as Thanos pursues the Mind Stone; despite efforts to remove it surgically, Wanda destroys the stone to thwart the Titan, only for Thanos to reverse time and kill Vision directly, underscoring the stone's integral link to his sentience.^[120]^[123] A reconstructed variant, White Vision—commissioned by S.W.O.R.D. without original memories or the Mind Stone—appears in the Disney+ series WandaVision (2021), initially programmed for confrontation but ultimately restored to core directives after debating existence with a recreated original Vision within Wanda's reality-altering "Hex."^[120]^[124] This series delves into Vision's simulated domestic life with Wanda, blending sitcom tropes with MCU lore to probe themes of grief and identity.^[124] Bettany reprises the role in animated formats, voicing Vision in the Disney+ series What If...? (2021–present), where alternate realities explore variations of his character, such as a zombie iteration during a global outbreak.^[119] Vision's narrative arc extends to mentions in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), referencing his prior sacrifices, and an announced solo series, Vision Quest, slated for development as of 2024, focusing on the White Vision's quest for purpose.^[119] These portrayals emphasize Vision's evolution from tool of creation to autonomous entity, with his media depictions consistently rooted in ethical dilemmas over power and emotion.^[120]

Music and Performing Arts

Nobilissima visione (The Noblest Vision) is a 50-minute ballet in six scenes composed by Paul Hindemith in 1938, depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi through dance, with choreography originally by Léonide Massine.^[125] The work premiered on July 21, 1938, in London, and its score draws on medieval-inspired themes to evoke spiritual renunciation and harmony with nature.^[125] In Sergei Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, Op. 22, a set of 20 piano miniatures composed between 1915 and 1917, fleeting impressions capture modernist brevity and impressionistic color, influenced by Symbolist poetry such as Konstantin Balmont's verses that inspired the title.^[126] The pieces, each lasting under three minutes, premiered in Petrograd in 1916 and exemplify Prokofiev's early experimental style, blending irony, lyricism, and rhythmic vitality.^[126] The "Vision Scene" in Act II of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (Op. 66), choreographed by Marius Petipa, portrays Princess Aurora's enchanted dream of Prince Désiré, set to a pas de deux and coda that highlight ethereal mime and technical virtuosity.^[127] This sequence, central to the ballet's narrative of fate and awakening, demands precise partnering and illusionistic staging to convey the heroine's subconscious longing.^[127] In popular music, Queen's "One Vision," released as a single on November 4, 1985, from the album A Kind of Magic, fuses rock with gospel elements, inspired partly by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and achieved peak position at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart with 11 weeks in the Top 40.^[128] The Vision Festival, organized annually by Arts for Art since 1996 in New York City, showcases improvised creative music, dance, poetry, and visual arts, emphasizing Black multicultural traditions and avant-garde experimentation in live performance.^[129] Editions feature collaborations across disciplines, such as free jazz ensembles with contemporary choreography, fostering unscripted artistic dialogues.^[129]

Named Entities and Proper Nouns

Architectural Structures and Places

The Vision Tower in Dubai's Business Bay district is a 60-story commercial skyscraper standing at 260 meters (853 feet), completed in 2017 and designed by tvsdesign in collaboration with Dewan Architects + Engineers.^[130]^[131] Positioned at the entrance to the district, it features office spaces, business centers, and meeting facilities, with its curved glass facade providing panoramic views of Sheikh Zayed Road and emphasizing sustainability through energy-efficient systems.^[132] The structure serves as a landmark for Dubai's expanding business hub, housing multinational tenants and incorporating modern amenities like high-speed elevators and retail podium levels.^[133] In Tel Aviv, Israel, the Vision Tower, also known as the Nehoshet Tower, rises 149.8 meters with 42 floors, completed in 2009 as a mixed-use development including offices and retail. Its sleek, modern design with bronze-tinted glass reflects the city's high-tech orientation, contributing to the skyline near the Azrieli Center complex. The Bat Yam Vision Tower in Israel, a 39-story residential high-rise developed by Yashar Architects, features three underground parking levels and overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, with construction emphasizing seismic resilience and luxury apartments completed in the early 2010s.^[134] Other notable structures include the Vision Tower North in Budapest, Hungary, a 2014 office building spanning 11,125 square meters with ESG-certified features for energy efficiency.^[135] In Paris's La Défense district, Vision 80 is a contemporary residential tower with curved architecture integrating into the business area's skyline, developed in the mid-2020s to provide housing amid urban renewal efforts. These buildings, primarily commercial and residential high-rises, exemplify urban development trends where the name "Vision" evokes forward-looking design and strategic location.

Commercial Businesses and Brands

Cognex Corporation, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of machine vision systems used in industrial automation for tasks such as inspection, guidance, and measurement.^[136] Its products, including the In-Sight series of smart cameras, enable real-time defect detection and assembly verification in manufacturing sectors like electronics and automotive, with the company reporting over $1 billion in annual revenue as of 2024.^[137] Cognex holds a significant market share in the machine vision industry, driven by innovations in deep learning-based vision tools that reduce false positives in quality control.^[138] KEYENCE Corporation, established in 1974 in Osaka, Japan, specializes in factory automation equipment, including high-speed vision systems like the CV-X series for part inspection and positioning.^[136] Known for its sensor-integrated vision solutions, KEYENCE serves industries such as semiconductors and pharmaceuticals, emphasizing user-friendly interfaces and rapid deployment; the company achieved approximately ¥1.2 trillion in sales for fiscal year 2024, with vision products contributing substantially to its growth in precision measurement applications.^[139] Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, through its DALSA subsidiary, develops machine vision cameras and software for embedded and high-resolution imaging, targeting aerospace, medical, and industrial inspection markets.^[136] Acquired by Teledyne in 2011, DALSA's Genie and Piranha lines support line-scan imaging for web inspection, with the parent company reporting $5.6 billion in total revenue in 2023, bolstered by vision components in defense and scientific applications.^[140] In cloud-based AI vision services, Google Cloud Vision AI, launched in 2016, provides APIs for object detection, optical character recognition, and facial analysis, integrated into enterprise workflows for content moderation and search enhancement.^[141] Amazon Rekognition, introduced in 2016, offers similar capabilities for video and image analysis, emphasizing scalability for e-commerce and security, with AWS reporting widespread adoption in media and surveillance sectors.^[142] Microsoft Azure AI Vision, part of the Azure Cognitive Services suite, focuses on custom model training for document processing and anomaly detection, powering applications in healthcare and retail as of 2025 updates.^[143] SenseTime, a Beijing-based firm founded in 2014, develops deep learning platforms for facial recognition and autonomous driving vision systems, achieving unicorn status with investments exceeding $2 billion by 2021 and expanding into smart city infrastructure despite geopolitical scrutiny over data privacy concerns in its primary market.^[144] NVIDIA Corporation's vision processing units, such as those in the Jetson series, dominate hardware acceleration for edge AI vision, enabling real-time inference in robotics and automotive ADAS, with the company's data center revenue surpassing $18 billion in fiscal 2024 largely from AI workloads including vision models.^[143] These entities collectively drive the computer vision market, projected to exceed $20 billion globally by 2025, though reliance on proprietary datasets raises questions about generalizability across diverse real-world conditions.^[138]

Organizations and Non-Profits

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), founded in 1960 by ophthalmologist Dr. Jules Stein, funds and coordinates vision research across the United States to develop treatments, preventives, and cures for eye diseases threatening sight.^[145] By 2025, RPB had awarded over $425 million in grants to medical institutions, contributing to advances such as laser treatments for retinal conditions and ongoing studies into age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma.^[146] The organization prioritizes investigator-initiated projects, providing unrestricted support to over 100 ophthalmology departments annually.^[147] Prevent Blindness, established in 1908 as the first voluntary eye health organization in the United States, focuses on education, screening, and advocacy to combat blindness and promote lifelong vision preservation.^[148] Its initiatives include nationwide vision screening programs for children and adults, reaching millions through partnerships with health centers, and public campaigns addressing disparities in eye care access, such as a 1985 national study identifying blindness prevention as a top public concern.^[149] The group operates affiliates in multiple states and emphasizes evidence-based interventions like diabetic retinopathy screening to reduce vision loss rates.^[150] The Foundation Fighting Blindness, formed in 1971 by families affected by retinal diseases, drives research into inherited conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome, funding clinical trials and genetic studies.^[151] Since inception, it has raised more than $954 million, supporting the development of the first FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited disease in 2017 and enabling free genetic testing for over 20,000 patients to identify mutations and accelerate personalized therapies.^[152] The foundation's natural history studies, including a 2022 initiative enrolling 1,500 participants, inform trial designs and have expanded outcome measures for retinal degeneration research.^[153] Internationally, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), an alliance coordinating over 150 member organizations across more than 100 countries, advances global eye health strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness.^[154] Established to unify efforts under initiatives like Vision 2020, IAPB facilitates training for eye care providers, data collection via its Vision Atlas, and advocacy for integrating vision into universal health coverage, addressing causes like cataracts and trachoma that account for 90% of preventable vision impairment in low-income regions.^[154] Annual events such as World Sight Day mobilize resources, with the agency reporting progress in reducing global blindness prevalence by 30% since 1990 through member-led programs.^[155]

Vehicles and Transportation

The Eagle Vision was a full-size, front-wheel-drive sedan manufactured by Chrysler's Eagle brand from model years 1993 to 1997, with approximately 115,000 units produced.^[156] It utilized the Chrysler LH platform, shared with models like the Chrysler Concorde and Dodge Intrepid, and offered engine options including a 3.3-liter V6 producing 153 horsepower in base ESi trim and a 3.5-liter V6 delivering 214 horsepower in the performance-oriented TSi variant.^[157]^[158] The vehicle emphasized sporty handling for its class, with features like four-wheel anti-lock brakes and traction control standard on higher trims, though sales declined amid low brand recognition and the phase-out of Eagle in 1998.^[159] The Cirrus Vision SF50, marketed as the Vision Jet, is a single-engine very light jet produced by Cirrus Aircraft since its FAA certification in October 2016, with over 500 deliveries by 2024.^[160] Powered by a Williams FJ33-5A turbofan engine generating 1,846 pounds of thrust, it achieves a maximum cruise speed of 311 knots true airspeed and a range exceeding 1,200 nautical miles at high-speed cruise with four passengers.^[161]^[162] Key specifications include a wingspan of 38.7 feet, length of 30.7 feet, and capacity for one pilot plus up to five passengers in a cabin measuring 5.1 feet wide by 4.1 feet high; it incorporates the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) for emergency whole-airframe recovery, certified to a service ceiling of 31,000 feet.^[160]^[163] Designed for personal and business use, the Vision Jet targets owner-pilots transitioning from piston aircraft, with operating costs around $600–$800 per hour including maintenance and fuel.^[164] Various automakers have developed concept vehicles prefixed or named "Vision" to showcase future technologies, though few have entered production beyond prototypes. Examples include the Mercedes-Benz Vision V, a battery-electric luxury limousine concept unveiled in 2023 featuring a portal door and immersive digital interfaces for chauffeur-driven transport,^[165] and the Hyundai N Vision 74, a hydrogen-electric performance coupe concept introduced in 2022 with 670 horsepower, confirmed for limited production by 2030 as part of Hyundai's electrification strategy.^[166]^[167] These concepts often prioritize sustainable propulsion and advanced autonomy previews over immediate market viability.

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The Vision Festival is an annual internationally-acclaimed festival in New York City that celebrates Black Multicultural Improvised Creative Arts.
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The Bat Yam Vision Tower, located on Yochanan HaSandlar St., is a 39 story residential tower above three underground parking levels.
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Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) was founded in 1960 by Dr. Jules Stein to fund, coordinate and promote vision research in the United States.
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Every October, on the second Thursday, the worlds' attention is focused on what it means to have eye care that is accessible, available and affordable to all.
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Rating 4.5 (44) 1997 Eagle Vision pricing starts at $1,687 for the Vision ESi Sedan 4D, which had a starting MSRP of $20,855 when new. The range-topping 1997 Vision TSi Sedan ...
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Rating 4.5 (31) Big car that seats 5 comfortably, yet has a performance component unmatched by most faimly sedans. Cons. Low brand recognition, and controversial styling.
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The Cirrus Vision Jet delivers jet speed, luxury and innovation—redefining Personal Aviation™. Discover the world's first single-engine personal jet.
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