For the first time ever, a patient has received a highly realistic 3D printed prosthetic eye. Before this new invention, creating a custom eye ball was very invasive and difficult. Now, the team can do a non-invasive 2.4-second scan that delivers a precise measurement of the eye socket. That data is combined with a color-calibrated image of the healthy eye and transferred over Fraunhofer's "Cuttlefish: Eye" system, which rapidly creates a 3D print model. The patient has said the eye feels comfortable and looks astonishingly real.

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