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Krys Group launches full OFG lens range
KRYS GROUP has announced that CODIR, its industrial and logistics subsidiary located outside Paris, was launching a complete range of Origine France Garantie (OFG)-certified lenses. More rigorous than the Made in France marking, the OFG certification guarantees that at least 50 percent of the product’s added value was acquired in ...
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ArticleEssilux unveils Nuance, announces U.S. and Europe launch dates at CES
EssilorLuxottica unveiled its new Nuance Audio technology at a press conference on the eve of the CES show in Las Vegas (Jan. 9-12). The group announced that its goal is to “revolutionize” the hearing market and penetrate an industry where, similar to eye care decades ago, consumers are averse to ...
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ArticleAI comes to Meta and Ray-Ban’s smart glasses
Meta is providing “early access” in the US to multimodal AI in the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses – the equivalent of a beta launch for software. The company is seeking feedback from customers, presumably to help tune the AI. Customers can opt in through the latest version of the Meta ...
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LVMH’s Pucci eyewear license stays with Marcolin
Marcolin has announced the renewal of its exclusive eyewear license agreement with Pucci, a brand of LVMH Group’s portfolio, for the design, manufacturing and global distribution of the brand’s sunglasses and optical frames. The relationship between Pucci and Marcolin started in 2015 and the license has been renewed until Dec. ...
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Thélios relaunches Tag Heuer eyewear
Thélios and Tag Heuer, two entities of French luxury group LVMH, have announced their licensing agreement for the design, production and distribution of Tag Heuer-branded eyewear. The first collections, which the partners said would build on “the brand’s undisputed eyewear legacy,” will be revealed during LVMH Watch Week on Jan. ...
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ArticleKarün Eyewear to get a Walmart boost
Karün Eyewear, the Chile-based brand of eyewear made from recycled and traceable materials, has signed a nationwide, but non-exclusive, partnership with Walmart for the distribution of its frames in the U.S. retail giant’s Walmart Vision Centers. ”We chose to work with Walmart as our U.S. national retailer to expand access ...
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News briefsTom Davies goes full Wonka with giraffe-milk smelling frames
Tom Davies has partnered once again with Warner Bros. Discovery to design bespoke frames for two characters in Wonka, the upcoming movie inspired by Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory children book and starring Timothée Chalamet. Previous collaborations between the British eyewear designer and U.S. studio included eyewear featured ...
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ArticleShamir launches myopia management lens
Shamir Optical Industry, the Israeli-based lens manufacturer, has announced the launch of Optimee, its first lens in the child myopia management segment. The launch follows the first-year results of a clinical trial with 126 children in Israel which showed that the new lens slowed by 43 percent the axial elongation ...
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ArticleSmart glasses win at CES 2024
Four pairs of smart-eyewear are among the winners of the latest Innovation Awards from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), whose 2024 edition is scheduled for Jan. 9-12, 2024, in Las Vegas. Ampere First up – in alphabetical order by company – is Dusk Rx, which the producer, Ampere, describes as ...
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Microoled updates app to tap Strava’s 100 million users
MICROOLED, the French-based supplier of micro displays for eyewear and other products, has announced a major update in its ActiveLook smart eyewar application for Apple Watch that will make it compatible with Strava. Strava is one of the leading subscription platforms for sports enthusiasts with over 100 million users in ...
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Moncler eyewear license goes to EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica and Moncler have announced the signature of an exclusive licensing agreement for the design, production and global distribution of Moncler-branded eyewear, including eyeglasses and sunglasses. The agreement will be in effect from January 2024 until December 2028 with an automatic renewal option for five more years, and the first ...
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Spanish eye health tech start-up enters U.S. market
Wivi Vision, a Barcelona-based start-up focusing on children eye health, has announced the signature of a partnership with Vision Rehab Technologies for the distribution of its products and services in the U.S. Wivi Vision has developed a technology that evaluates visual disfunctions in children, such as dislexya for example, and ...
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75% of French opticians offer myopia management lenses, poll finds
According to a poll by French website Acuité, only 25 percent of optical shops in the country do not sell myopia management lenses for children, indicating a strong penetration of the relatively new product category in the retail channel. Over 900 optical stores, or about 7 percent of the total ...
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French company to launch mosquito-repellent glasses
15-1 Diffusion, the French eyewear company behind some fashion eyewear licenses such as Mauboussin or Armor-Lux, has developed and patented a new technology that enables to encapsulate active substances into micro capsules that are both oxygen-proof and sufficiently porous to release them under certain conditions, like body heat for example. ...
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Japanese myopia eye drops research enters clinical trial phase
Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical is partnering with Tsubota Laboratory for research and developement of a new myopia management eye drop solution. The eye drops, which were successfully tested on mice according to an article by Nikkei Asia, aims at slowing myopia progression by suppressing the thinning of the sclera, thereby reducing ...
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Flö-Optics signs with three U.S. labs
Flö-Optics, the additive manufacturing company that recently signed a partnership with PPG, has announced that it has signed agreements with three U.S. ophthalmic labs - Cherry Optical Lab, Encore Optical and Superior Optical Labs - which will be the first ones to make use of its coating technology. Orders were ...
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IOT enters myopia management market
IOT, the Spanish and U.S.-based lens manufacturer, has announced that it was entering the myopia management segment with the launch of MyoLess, a new lens developed to slow down the progression of axial elongation in chidren’s eyes. “The lens incorporates asymmetric positive defocus on the back surface, calibrated to the ...
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The Vision Council updates Lens Product Desciption Standard
The Vision Council has announced the completion of Version 1.00 of its Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS), a reference industry standard for lens manufacturers to provide technical information on their lenses and lens blanks. The new standard, which was unanimously approved by the U.S. association’s LPDS committee at the recent ...
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ArticleMaterialise to 3D-print new translucent material
Right across from the Futurology space at this year’s Silmo was a booth for Materialise, the company that supplies frames for the Futurology companies Skugga and Lexilens, not to mention Morrow Eyewear, winner of one of this year’s Silmo d’Or awards. Founded 30-odd years ago, Materialise is headquartered in Leuven, ...
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News briefsMister Spex launches 3D-print customized range
Mister Spex is launching EyeD, its first custom collection of 3D-printed eyewear. The range includes six customizable different models in seven colors that are being offered at 37 Mister Spex stores in Germany and Austria for €249, plus the price of the lenses. The measurements - including parameters such as ...
