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The image is being painted onto the camera sensor instead of the retina.

Regarding "shooting lasers at your eyeball, which sounds unhealthy", this technology has existed since at least the early '00s. Microvision was showing off their Nomad laser HMD (https://www.google.com/search?q=microvision+nomad) around 2002 IIRC. It's reasonably well established as safe.

It shoots a laser (well 3) at a film which reflects into your eye.

It's a lot less confusing if you read the article lol.

The photo you are referring to is the laser painting directly onto the sensor array of the camera.

I was definitely expecting some sort of joke article, but the tech does seem interesting.

My $50 monitor blits pixels directly onto my retina. Be impressed.