The United States Government As Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Attila Priplata

Minnan Xu

Conrad Wall, Iii

Joseph F Rizzo, Iii

The disclosure features visual assistive devices that include a detection apparatus configured to receive information about an environment surrounding a user of the visual assistive device, a communication apparatus configured to transmit information to the user, and an electronic processor coupled to the detection apparatus and the communication apparatus, and configured to: receive information about an activity of the user; filter the information about the environment surrounding the user based on the activity of the user; assign a priority rank to each element of the filtered information based on the activity of the user; and transmit at least some of the elements of the filtered information, according to the assigned priority ranks, to the user using the communication apparatus.

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Arlington, MA, United States of America

Attila Priplata