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New motocross goggles from Red Bull Spect Eyewear
Red Bull Spect Eyewear has developed a new pair of motocross goggles, called Strive, in collaboration with Luc Ackermann, the FMX World Champion and holder of four world records. According to the company, the goggles expand the field of vision by 15 percent in comparison with older models thanks to ...
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GlassesUSA.com launches sale of audio glasses
The online retailer GlassesUSA.com has started the commercialization of Revel Tune audio glasses with customizable lens options, including, among others, Transitions lenses, sunglasses, blue light blocking lenses and polarized lenses. The collection starts retailing at $138 a pair. For clients without a prescription, the platform’s Prescription Scanner app can extract ...
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News briefsInspecs extends license agreement with O’Neill
Inspecs has agreed a new “long-term” license agreement with O’Neill, the international surf and snowwear brand. The companies have working together since 2013 and no further details on the length of the renewal were released. As part of O’Neill’s sustainability initiatives, Inspecs has recently created a frame for the brand ...
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Bollé launches augmented reality experience for contactless sales
This summer, Bollé launched an app that allows users to try out Bollé’s Phantom Glass technology directly on a smartphone, a first on the sports market. Now the company introduced a new augmented reality (AR) filter with the help of its partners QReal and M7 Innovations. Consumers can not only ...
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WhatsApp to add in-app purchases, enterprise message hosting
Facebook will soon be adding in-app purchases and enterprise message hosting to WhatsApp. Companies will be able to use Facebook Shops – the e-commerce platform that made its debut in May and feeds into all Facebook apps – to sell products through the messaging app. Companies will also be able ...
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Blenders launches winter collection
Safilo’s unit Blenders Eyewear of San Diego, California, has launched its winter collection, called Snow 2021, with new goggles and the company’s first accessories and helmets. There are 26 goggle models, 13 each in two collections called Aura and Nebula. All have been designed in consultation with Blenders athletes, among ...
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Marcolin puts out high-tech Adidas snow goggles
As the new licensee for Adidas eyewear, the Marcolin Group has announced the availability of two Adidas Terrex Snow Goggle models, each with a different lens and both made in Italy. The E-SUNTM VARIATM lens on the SP0039 has a toric shape and adjusts in less than 40 seconds to ...
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ArticleNew CEO and brand positioning for Hoya Vision Care
Hoya has announced the appointment of Alexandre Montague as the new CEO of Hoya Vision Care, the lens division of the Japanese group. The French eyewear industry veteran started in this position in August, after spending six months at the helm of Hoya Eye Care, the company managing the contact ...
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Bollé’s new lenses have computer-designed pigments
Bollé’s new lens, the Volt +, heightens contrast and color to improve depth perception. Technicians at Bollé’s R&D laboratory, called Epic and located in the French city of Lyon, used computers to sort through some 20 million light-wavelength combinations, fine-tuning the lens’s pigments to produce the proper transition curve. The ...
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ArticleMarchon to use Eastman’s sustainable acetate
Marchon announced that it will be the first eyewear company to produce frames using Acetate Renew, a sustainable material produced by the American specialty chemical company Eastman. Unlike other sustainable alternatives, Acetate Renew is indistinguishable from classic acetate, according to Marchon. It plans to start producing acetate sunglasses and ophthalmic ...
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Morel partners with architect Jean Nouvel
Morel, the French eyewear company, has partnered with the French architect Jean Nouvel, famous for the contemporary creations like the Agbar tower in Barcelona, the Cartier foundation in Paris, the New National Museum of Qatar and others. The capsule collection was first presented at the Silmo Hors les Murs Paris ...
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Dragon Eyewear adds two goggles to its line
Dragon Eyewear is releasing two goggles for the forthcoming winter season. The PXV2 is a new version of the PXV, with the addition of a Swiftlock on its lens. Meanwhile, the RVX OTG features a new version of the Swiftlock itself, Swiftlock 2.0, thanks to which it can be worn ...
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Roka and Machines for Freedom team up for sunglasses
Machines For Freedom of California and Roka of Texas have released two sunglass models for cycling. The GP-1 Series (retailing at $250) issues from Roka’s Advanced Performance line, and the Oslo ($175) from the company’s Modern Classics line. Both models have bendable titanium core wires, customizable no-slip Geko nose pads ...
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ArticleAnt Group debuts cross-border trade platform
Chinese fintech company Ant Group, part of e-commerce giant Alibaba, launched an international trade and financial service platform powered by its blockchain-based technology solution AntChain to facilitate the cross-border sale of products and services by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to reduce costs for financial institutions serving these companies. ...
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GlassesUSA to sell capsule collection by Champion
GlassesUSA.com will be the near-exclusive online retailer for a new unisex eyewear capsule collection by Champion, the American sportswear brand. Certain sunglass models will be sold through Champion’s website as well. Consisting of 18 eyeglasses and 14 sunglasses – with retail prices starting at $220 and $160 respectively – the ...
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Oakley factory to produce face shields
EssilorLuxottica’s frame unit Luxottica has converted part of Oakley’s Foothill Ranch factory in Orange County, California, to supply face shields to meet growing demand for protective equipment against the Covid-19 virus. The 550,000 square foot facility produces Oakley eyewear and goggles and the face shields will be manufactured alongside existing ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica, Facebook plan to launch Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2021
EssilorLuxottica and Facebook plan to launch a pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses in 2021. The two companies have entered a multiyear collaboration to develop the next generation of smart glasses. The announcement was made by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the online social media group, during ...
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Air_Art offers luxury eyewear cases
Air_Art, a new French luxury eyewear brand has signed an exclusive partnership for a collection of eyewear cases with Emmanuel Kirsch, a French designer brand of leather accessories. The collection includes cases in precious animal skins like crocodile, iguana or python and retail from €149. Launched last year by Frédéric ...
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Revo partners with Jeep on an eyewear collection
Revo has introduced a capsule collection that combines its polarized lenses – which draw from lenses developed at NASA to protect satellites from the sun – with design elements from the Jeep automotive brand. The Revo x Jeep Collection comprises four styles: Desert, an acetate navigator with a rubber Jeep ...
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ArticleMarcolin signs on Max Mara
Unsurprisingly, Marcolin has signed a licensing agreement for the design, production and worldwide distribution of Max Mara sunglasses and eyeglasses. The partnership with the Italian fashion house has a five-year duration starting from Nov. 1, and enlarges Marcolin’s product offer for the womenswear market. It follows last year’s license agreements ...
