Ray’s implant was installed in 1998 and he lived long enough to start working with the implant, eventually learning to control a computer cursor; he died in 2002 of a brain aneurysm.
Naumann je opisal svoje izkušnje z delom dr. Dobelle-a v knjigi Search for paradise: A Patient's account of the artificial vision experiment in se je vrnil na svojo kmetijo na jugovzhodu Ontaria v Kanadi k svojim vsakdanjim opravilom.