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You already can (if you are willing to be a clinical trial guinea pig). There are nanoparticle eye drops that enables that.

Could you elaborate or give some links?

An article about it working in mice: https://newatlas.com/nanoparticle-near-infrared-vision/58686...

Assume that they are now doing human trials.

Probably worth mentioning that although the headline of that article refers to "eye drops", the sources that it cites say that the testing was actually done with an injection into the retina itself.

We are still a good way off replicating the resolution of the human eye in an implant, and generally we have a hard time matching the impressive dynamic range of our eyes. Give it another 20 years.

Until then something that converts infrared and UV to the visible range is a lot more reachable (whether that's an implant like an intraocular lens, simple contact lenses, or just eye drops)

I love the idea, but there may be privacy implications. It reminded me of learning about cameras that can accidentally see through clothes that manufacturer had to to recall to remove.