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ArticleGoogle kicks off smart glasses platform with multiple eyewear partnerships, including investment in Warby Parker
“As you know, we have been building glasses for over ten years. And we have never stopped,” said Shahram Izadi, Vice President and General Manager of Google’s Android XR unit, at the group’s I/O developers conference yesterday before opening its smart glasses presentation. The introductory remark was probably meant to ...
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News briefsMister Spex offering eyewear subscriptions
Mister Spex has introduced the subscription service mentioned in our report on its Q1 results. Called Mister Spex Switch, the service covers prescription glasses and sunglasses and is operative in all 65 of the stores Mister Spex operates in its home country of Germany. A monthly fee starting at €9 ...
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News briefsVSP Vision releases new ‘Oculomics’ report
VSP Vision has announced the release of “The Future of Oculomics,” its newest report exploring the connections between eye health and broader body health. While the term ”oculomics,” defining the study of the eye for biomarkers linked to systemic health issues, remains relatively unknown by eyecare providers (87 percent of ...
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Specsavers partners with Elton John on eyewear collection
Specsavers launched earlier this week an exclusive collection of Elton John Eyewear, in partnership with the British pop music star. The collection includes 12 optical frames and two limited-edition sunglasses inspired by Elton John songs or career moments. The frames are available at Specsavers stores and online shop in the ...
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SightGlass Vision announces new clinical research results
SightGlass Vision, a joint venture between EssilorLuxottica and CooperVision, is presenting new clinical research related to its Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT) at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) currently taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah. SightGlass Vision says that a recent study ...
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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 ...
