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Alcon tops 175 million IOL units
Alcon has announced that more than 175 million of its intraocular lenses (IOLs) have been implanted globally since it started offering them about thirty years ago. The tally includes over 6 million units of the company’s latest generation of presbyopia-correcting IOLs, notably PanOptix (4 million) and Vivity (2 million). ...
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SightGlass Vision presents two new DOT lenses studies
SightGlass Vision, the joint venture between CooperVision and EssilorLuxottica, presented the results of two new clinical studies on its DOT myopia management lenses at the 2025 Netherlands Contact Lens Congress on March 9, 2025. Based on two different 12-month clinical trials – one in North America with Caucasian ...
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Alain Afflelou launches audio glasses private label
Alain Affelou is launching Magic Connect, a pair of modular audio glasses, across its retail network in France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Portugal. Weighing 30 grams and connected by Bluetooth to a nearby smartphone, the glasses integrate touch pads, speakers and a microphone for audio functionalities such as placing ...
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Rokid bolsters open AI glasses ecosystem with Gemini integration
Rokid has announced the addition of the integration of Gemini, Google’s AI agent, in the international version of its Rokid Glasses which already support Open AI, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. The update enables users to switch between models for tasks such as real-time translation and multimodal interactions. “By bridging ...
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ArticleReported Meta-Essilux arm-wrestling on AI glasses pricing highlights diverging priorities
Meta and EssilorLuxottica are working through disagreements over the pricing and promotion strategy of their Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, with the tech giant pushing for lower prices and the eyewear group pushing in the opposite direction, according to “people familiar with the matter” quoted by Bloomberg News earlier this week. ...
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News briefsSmart glasses a no-no in California court
A judge threatened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others on Feb. 18 with charges of contempt of court should they use their Ray-Ban Meta glasses to record the proceedings, according to Forbes. Apparently, Zuckerberg and at least some of his personnel entered the court wearing the smart glasses. At issue ...
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Vuzix adds 'native' Teams, Zoom to enterprise smart glasses portfolio
Vuzix is expanding its enterprise smart glasses portfolio with the launch of Remote Assist, a new deployment featuring native Microsoft Teams and Zoom software for hands-free remote assistance. The so-called deployment kits – including the company’s LX1 or M400 smart glasses, pre-loaded software and accessories – are meant to facilitate ...
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ArticleLeaked Apple AI glasses plans suggest group is mostly playing catch-up in category
Apple is planning to start the production of its smart glasses in December this year before a commercial launch in 2027, according to “people with knowledge of the plans” cited by Bloomberg. The business news outlet already reported in October last year that Apple was shifting priorities from VR headsets ...
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Meta reportedly working on facial recognition feature for its AI glasses
Meta is considering the launch of a facial recognition function to its AI glasses, perhaps as soon as this year, according to a report by The New York Times, based on a leaked internal document from May last year. “Name Tag”, by its code name, would allow the glasses wearers ...
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News briefsSynsam has a new ‘Made in Sweden’ brand
Synsam Group (Stockholm) is introducing a new brand, Isak V, whose eyewear will be designed and produced in Sweden – and therefore expand the company’s “Made in Sweden” portfolio. The line consists of 14 models of ophthalmic glasses and three models of sunglasses. Their design will be “modern,” “timeless,” “masculine” ...
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ArticleIOT aims for last-mile manufacturing with new, sustainable lens tech
If you have never heard about frontal photopolymerization, you are not alone. We too never had. However, if the promise made by Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) with its new Light-Form Technology is fulfilled – no less than “a true paradigm shift in prescription lens manufacturing” – the industry may soon ...
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HOYA unveils 6-month clinical trial data for new MiYOSMART iQ
HOYA Vision Care presented the results of a six-month clinical trial for MiYOSMART iQ, the new generation of its myopia management lens, at the 41st Asia-Pacific Ophthalmology last week in Hong Kong. Called DIMS TED, for Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments Triple Enhanced Design, the new lens technology is based on ...
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ArticleTenpoint wins FDA approval for presbyopia drops, raises $235m
Tenpoint Therapeutics has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Yuvezzi (carbachol and brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution – formerly called Brimochol PF), which the company describes as “the first and only dual-agent eye drop for the treatment of presbyopia in adults.” Tenpoint expects to begin US ...
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News briefsSnap establishes subsidiary for AI glasses
Snap plans to introduce to the market this year the smartglasses it has been working on for a decade, called Specs. To this end it has established within itself a wholly owned subsidiary, also called Specs. By Snap’s rationale, Specs Inc. will afford “operational focus and alignment,” “partnerships and capital ...
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ArticleHouse of Modo launches $200 smart audio glasses, revs up growth plans with new investors
House of Modo has entered the smart eyewear market with a new brand called EyeFly, which made its debut at the MIDO trade fair with audio-only smart glasses set to come with an average price tag of about $200. “It’s our take on smart glasses,” Giovanni Lo Faro, CEO International, ...
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Evonik launches new recycled polyamide with Italian partner
Evonik is launching a recycled version of its TROGAMID material, which is used in sunglass lenses among other applications, in partnership with Poliplastic, an Italian-based supplier of specialty polyamides. The recycling loop for the new material, TROGAMID R, starts with the collection of scrap-production shards from manufacturers of optical non-prescription ...
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ArticleMacron’s Davos shades put Henry Jullien in the spotlight
French president Emmanuel Macron did not go unnoticed at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this week. He wore a pair of high-end reflective aviator sunglasses during his speech, indoors. The unusual look was intended to cover a burst blood vessel in his eye, his office explained. ...
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Japanese autofocus glasses startup joins Silicon Valley incubator
Elcyo, a Japanese-based startup developing autofocus glasses, has been selected as a co-working member of Japan Innovation Campus, an innovation center organized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Palo Alto, California. The company says it plans to use its presence in Silicon Valley to connect with ...
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HOYA launches VTO service for ECPs in North America
HOYA Vision Care is launching HOYA LensPreview, a virtual try-on service for its premium lens ranges, in the US and Canada. The tool allows eye care professionals to show their patients a preview of their lenses in a true-to-color and interactive environment for products such as the Sensity Family, the ...
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Essilux presents two clinical studies on Nuance Audio Glasses performance
Up to 29 percent of Nuance Audio Glasses wearers reported improvement in speech understanding in challenging acoustic conditions, according to a study of the Western University in Canada with 21 participants, EssilorLuxottica has announced. Users also noted a “significant reduction in listening effort as measured through standardized rating scales,” the ...
