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News briefsZeiss to release AI research platform
“The future of healthcare is in the data,” says Euan S. Thomson, head of the Digital Business Unit at Zeiss Medical Technology. In line with this belief, the German firm has collaborated with the pharmaceuticals multinational Boehringer Ingelheim to create the Zeiss Research Data Platform (Zeiss RDP). Source: ...
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ArticleAmazon-backed autofocus glasses startup raises $36m, aims for distribution in the ECP channel
The raised capital will enable IXI to continue its product development and to kickoff its commercial operations. The strategy is to distribute primarily through the optical retail channel. The company is looking to disrupt the market with its technology aimed at replacing progressive lenses.
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VSP Vision launches second eye care experience innovation challenge
VSP Vision has announced the launch of the second edition of its Innovation Challenge, in partnership with MATTER, a Chicago-based healthcare and innovation hub. The competition is aimed at global companies innovating with new technologies to enhance patients’ eye care experience. They have until June 8, 2025 to send their ...
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ArticleGoogle and Samsung to release their own smart glasses and platform
Shahram Izadi, Vice President and General Manager of Android XR, introduced Google’s most recent move in smart eyewear at TED earlier this month. Readers might recall the demise, two years ago, of a previous endeavor – Google Glass. Google has been working with Samsung and Qualcomm to develop both a ...
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News briefsNew countries, features for Ray-Ban Meta
EssilorLuxottica, owner of Ray-Ban, announced on April 23 that the Ray-Ban Meta will soon be available in Mexico, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Meta, for its part, announced on the same day that it was extending access to the smart eyewear’s AI to seven European countries: Germany, Austria, ...
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News briefsApple to compete with Ray-Ban Meta?
Apple CEO Tim Cook apparently believes the same thing as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg – that eyeglasses are the ideal “form factor” (Zuckerberg’s words) for computing. “Cook has made this idea a top priority for the company and is hell-bent on creating an industry-leading product before Meta can. ‘Tim cares ...
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Marcolin celebrates Christian Louboutin Eyewear launch
Marcolin held on April 10 a cocktail party at The Nines, a club in New York City, with celebrities and “Friends of the House” to celebrate the launch of its first Christian Louboutin Eyewear collection. The frames are fitted with exclusive ZEISS lenses, the company said. They are available from ...
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ArticleA high-end complement to the Ray-Ban Meta?
Meta has a new prototype for smart glasses in the works, according to Bloomberg, which cites “people familiar with the matter.” The code name this time is Hypernova, and the glasses are purported to have a screen, for the display of photographs and apps, and to be controllable with gestures ...
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News briefsMicrooled, Quanta and STM partner on AR sports smart glasses blanks
Three companies have come together to produce blanks for augmented-reality (AR) smart glasses. Their idea is to produce a frame with built-in electronics but leave the rest open for third parties to “customize” with their own services or additional tiny devices. They’re calling it a “reference design” and aiming it ...
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Ray-Ban Meta red carpet debut just a start?
In partnership with Coperni, a French ready-to-wear and accessories brand, Meta and EssilorLuxottica launched a limited series of their Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at the fashion week in Paris a few days ago. A declination of the Wayfarer style, the limited edition glasses feature a transparent black frame, grey mirror ...
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Kubota Glass myopia control technology patented in the US
Kubota Vision, a subsidiary of Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings, has announced the issuance of a patent covering its Kubota Glass technology from the US Patent and Trademark Office for both glasses-based and contact-lens devices. Designed to slow down the progression of myopia, the technology works by projecting images slightly in front ...
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ArticleElectronics blue light specialist steps into eyewear, aims to establish new standards
Partnering with global consumer electronics brands such as Dell, HP or Samsung, Eyesafe has focused until now on devices for its blue light products. The company is now entering the eyewear market in the US with a wholesale and direct-to-consumer approach.
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ArticleEssilux to ramp up Ray-Ban Meta annual capacity to 10m pairs
Product innovations by EssilorLuxottica, most notably Ray-Ban Meta and to a lesser extent Nuance Audio, were the main focus point during the group’s financial results presentation yesterday. They were also very much at the center of questions by investors in the Q & A session during which Francesco Milleri, Chairman ...
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News briefsEssilux to coordinate French research program in myopia
With several other entities, EssilorLuxottica has inaugurated a five-year research program in personalized optical myopia treatment, with the objective of diagnosing myopia in childhood and slowing its progress. Called Premyom, the program will make use of large-cohort studies, clinical trials, data analytics, digital modeling, biomechanical simulation of the myopic eye, ...
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Ocumetra launches new myopia management web-based platform
Irish-based software and services supplier Ocumetra is launching mEYE Suite, a new web-based and multilingual platform aimed at assisting eye care professionals (ECPs) in the treatment of myopia management and communication with parents. Ocumetra says that mEYE Suite is based on a global database of over one million records. Its ...
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ArticleZEISS launches new connected eye care service and screening device
ZEISS Vision Care presented ZEISS EyeCare Network, a digital system connecting opticians and optometrists with ophthalmologists, and ZEISS VISUREF 1000, a new multifontion device at the recent opti trade show in Munich.
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Nuance Audio cleared to launch in both the US and the EU
EssilorLuxottica has announced that it has received the FDA clearance for its over-the-counter Nuance Audio glasses and that is has also simultaneously received all the necessary authorizations, including the CE marking under the Medical Devices Regulation, to market the product in the European Union. Essilux has said that it ...
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ZEISS Vision Care launches new coating and sun lens colors at opti
ZEISS Vision Care is expanding its coating portfolio with the launch of ZEISS DuraVision Gold UV, a new lens coating in the premium-tier segment that the company says offers even greater cleanability and improved scratch resistance. The upgraded durability and scratch resistance is enabled by multiple densely packed metal oxide ...
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Blue light specialist Eyesafe to enter the eyewear market
Eyesafe, a US-based company that presents itself as “the world leader in blue light management”, has announced that it will launch Eyesafe Eyewear, its own line of blue light glasses. According to the company’s presentation, its product represents a breakthrough in quality and performance compared to any other glasses on ...
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ArticleLaclarée could have commercial autofocals next year, thanks to seed round
The French start-up adds a Chinese shareholder.
