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CHARMANT launches new “Japanese Made” brand
CHARMANT is launching CHARMANT Japanese Made, a new extension of its flagship brand, in the US and Japan, with France to follow in June this year as a test market before a possible launch in other European countries. The Japan-based eyewear maker says the new collection offers unparalleled comfort thanks ...
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ArticleHOYA claims MiYOSMART IQ is first lens to halt myopia progression in children
Presenting the results of its latest clinical trial at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in Denver, US, yesterday, HOYA Vision Care announced that it has reached a milestone in myopia control. The breakthrough comes with a significant shift in language. While previous claims focused ...
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Warby Parker launches new sport collection
Warby Parker is launching Warby Parker Sport, a new eyewear range that “bridges the gap between everyday style and sport-specific functionality.” Made in Italy, the collection includes five designs fitted with polarized lenses available in three colors (gray, rosewood and brown). The glasses retail at $195 with plano lenses, $295 ...
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News briefsSpecs leak for Samsung’s first smart glasses
Images and an early spec sheet for Samsung’s first smart glasses have leaked via Android Headlines, which says the design is reconstructed from real-life photographs of a testing unit rather than official marketing material. Codenamed Jinju, the device runs Android XR with Gemini AI and has no display, relying instead ...
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ArticleSynsam aims to expand international outreach with 'major' investment in Haaland partnership
Synsam Group is partnering with Norwegian football star Erling Haaland for the launch of an eyewear collection including prescription eyewear, sunglasses and sport glasses. The Erlind Haaland Eyewear Collection-branded range will include a total of 64 different frames for women, men and children, as well as a capsule collection of ...
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Apple AI glasses reportedly coming in four acetate designs, many colors
Apple plans to release its AI glasses in four designs – rectangular and oval/round, each in large and slim sizes – with many color options, according to a recent Bloomberg report. The frames will reportedly use acetate for a higher-quality feel than the thermoplastic in Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They will ...
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Snap’s Specs signs long-term partnership with Qualcomm
Specs, the smart eyewear subsidiary of Snap, has signed a multi-year partnership with Qualcomm Technologies, a leading US-based multinational semiconductor and wireless technology company. “Through long-term strategic roadmap alignment and technical collaboration, both companies will work together to rapidly bring industry-leading capabilities to the Specs platform, including on-device AI, ...
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ArticleRay-Ban Meta Optics expected to widen consumer adoption, protect Essilux margins
Meta and EssilorLuxottica have officially announced two new Ray‑Ban Meta AI glasses, just days after FCC filings sparked media speculation, including in our publication. Called Ray‑Ban Meta Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Scriber Optics (Gen 2), the new products are described in the partners’ press release as “optical‑first styles designed ...
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ArticleNew Essilux-Meta glasses on the way, FCC filings suggest
The grantee known to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as 2AYOA, and to us as Luxottica Group, has filed documents pertaining to what appear to be two new models of Ray-Ban smart glasses – as reported first by Janko Roettgers’ Lowpass newsletter and then by Road to VR and ...
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Mondottica Group signs new eyewear licence with Italian men’s fashion brand
Mondottica Group and Antony Morato are partnering to launch the first eyewear collection under the Italian men’s fashion brand. It features four models available in ten colors that will exclusively be available at Antony Morato’s stores and e-commerce website for the first season, before expansion to online and offline wholesale channels and travel retail. Founded in 2007 and operating in ...
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ArticleAI startup takes aim at eyewear e-tail shortcomings
Eyvero.AI, a Balkans-based IT startup, is launching several AI-powered tools, covering areas such as virtual try-on, or rather “anatomic immersion” as the company puts it, progressive lens fitting analysis, and the creation of digital frame images and marketing materials. Eyvero.AI was founded by Artem Yukhnovskiy and Vladimir Meniailenko, two ...
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ArticleVSP Vision announces Innovation Challenge winners and finalists
The VSP Vision Innovation Challenge at this year’s Vision Expo – organized by RX and The Vision Council in collaboration with VSP Vision – has yielded two winners and two finalists, all start-ups. They not only pitched live but also exhibited at Vision Expo’s new Innovation Center, a showcase for ...
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ArticleLeading electronics ODM and Ray-Ban Meta supplier to form lens JV with Asahi Lite
Goertek Optical, a subsidiary of Goertek, a leading Chinese original design manufacturer and components supplier for smart hardware, is about to form a joint venture with Asahi Lite, as we have just learned. The announcement was made a few weeks ago by Conant Optical, the Chinese-based lens manufacturer that fully ...
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ArticleNIDEK modernizes refraction with lens-free, open-field system
In daily life, people naturally have an open-field vision environment with their two eyes open, so shouldn’t it be the same when they have their visual acuity checked? The answer to that question lies at the heart of PHANTOM, NIDEK’s new refraction system, with which the company is aiming to ...
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Mondottica International launches shape-memory eyewear brand
Mondottica International is launching ReForm Eyewear, a new brand of shape-memory eyewear, across its global distribution network. Originally inspired by the swimming goggle, ReForm Eyewear’s frames are made from a new castor oil-derived flexible polyamide, enabling the glasses to return to their original shape, whatever distortions the frames are submitted ...
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EssilorLuxottica and Dolce&Gabbana renew partnership until 2050
EssilorLuxottica and Dolce&Gabbana have renewed their eyewear license partnership until 2050, an exceptionally long duration for such a deal. As is customary, the collaboration encompasses the development, production and global distribution of prescription frames and sunglasses under the fashion brand name. “We are very proud of this new agreement, which ...
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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 ...
