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"This curvature allows animals to see the world without distortion - unlike the images produced from cameras, which lose focus at the periphery."

What a load of bollocks...
The 'in focus' portion of vision is pretty small and central...peripheral vision tends to detect movement..
The macular is the most sensitive part of the retina...
(I reserve the right to be wrong, as I'm thinking human vision here....)

Del

"This curvature allows animals to see the world without distortion - unlike the images produced from cameras, which lose focus at the periphery."

This statement is true. The same could be said about visual optics (eyeglasses). Most people with 'mild' eye conditions won't notice it, but the higher your Rx goes (like your's trully) peripheral vision out of the lens becomes distorted (read up on abb (aberation) value and it's consequences on vision). Cameras are a series of lenses trying to put the whole optical area 'in focus' on a flat surface. Again...when looking at normal range shot (analogue or digital), all looks OK...but when you do macro shots, this distortion becomes evident.

Just my take

I can see many useful applications of this new development.

As far as "seeing the same as an animal" - the animal needs to be specified, because goldfish see differently from eagles, and eagles see differently from bees, which see differently from spiders....the differences are markedly clear, all we need to do is look, and we can see the differences.

Kind Regards....