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News briefsVuzix says it can provide vision correction at scale for AR
Vuzix has begun integrating vision correction into its waveguides for augmented-reality (AR) glasses and head-mounted displays (HMDs). The corrective power extends from +2D to -8D diopters for now but will in time expand to cover the full range. According to the company’s press release, the product “can be produced in ...
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News briefsBlackfin partners with Barberini for AirGlass lenses
The Italian eyewear company Blackfin has partnered with mineral-glass lens producer Barberini, part of the EssilorLuxottica group, to introduce AirGlass lenses. The polarized lenses in ultra-thin glass will be paired with Blackfin’s titanium frames and make their debut on Blackfin’s new MAVERICKS eyewear. The lenses make use of Blackfin’s ultra-HDR ...
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Sponsored articleBioAcetate S70: Pioneering sustainable advancements in the eyewear industry
Wingram introduces BioAcetate S70, heralded as the next generation of acetate. This innovation seamlessly merges science and sustainability.
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ArticleSmart glasses and AR technologies on display at the CES
In our last CES 2024 report, after our previous articles on EssilorLuxottica’s Nuance launch and on the winners of the CES awards, we present a selection of other smart eyewear products and companies that caught our attention at the Las Vegas show that closed its doors last Friday. RayNeo, a ...
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Safilo announces two early licence renewals
Safilo Group has announced a few days apart the early renewals of two of its global eyewear licences, with HUGO BOSS and Aeffe. The agreement with HUGO BOSS, started in 2006, is renewed until 2030 for the BOSS and HUGO eyewear collections. The partnership with Aeffe covers the Moschino and ...
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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 ...
