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Typically, the user looks down for their reading distance and looks up for far distances. Bifocals have two lens powers–the top half of the lens for distance and the bottom half of the lens for reading with a visible (fashion faux pas) bifocal line that cuts across the center of the lens. Progressive lenses can change the focus range gradually as one gazes down from distance vision on the top of the lens down to intermediate and reading vision at the bottom. Although progressive lenses offer multiple vision fields, they take time getting used to and not everyone can adapt to them (especially with contact lenses and IOLs) and they alter peripheral vision slightly. Today e-Vision is exhibiting a working prototype of its dynamic tunable lens technology demonstrating the ability of the e-Vision lens to shift/adjust to any focus from distance to reading and anywhere in between. In the case of the electronic contact lens/IOLs, the entire field of view of the e-Vision lens will change to the focus desired by the wearer–no more will you be looking down and up searching for a specific zone of focus on a lens.

e-Vision is also developing applications of its LC technology and its supporting wearable frame technologies (such as those used by Mitsui in its smart glasses) for X Reality (XR). In the rapidly advancing field of Augmented and Mixed Reality, e-Vision’s patented technology will keep the augmented and mixed reality content being projected in front of the user’s eye in focus as the users’ eyes change their focus. In augmented and mixed reality, the virtual content viewed is set to distance viewing, so if a user is focused at distance it works well. However, when the users refocus their gaze upon a near object in the real world, the virtual content goes out of focus. With e-Vision’s dynamic lens, they will be able to keep the content in focus regardless of what they are looking at, enhancing the augmented and mixed reality experience as a whole.“In the near future our glasses will alter the focus as the user changes their focus,” adds Tony Van Heugten–Chief Technology Officer of e-Vision.

For Virtual Reality e-Vision’s technology permits the device to be programmed with each individual user’s ophthalmic prescription so that they do not have to be worn over the user’s eyeglasses. All of the XR systems will benefit from utilizing e-Vision’s wearable frame technology that can provide power and control of the devices. For medical devices, e-Vision’s technology is being utilized by the Italian manufacturer, Adaptica SLR, in its head-mounted phoroptor where the patient can get involved in the process of determining their vision prescription with an interactive controller that will fine-tuning the adjustments for their corrective prescription, as opposed to the doctor verifying through trial and error.

The need for dynamic, fully tunable optics is now fully established according to these inventors and, as noted above, it is on the radar of companies across many industries.

Today e-Vision is a leader in the new field of electronic vision technology, with prototypes whose commercialization can be visualized. They worked with Mitsui and Adaptica in commercializing their products and they have also worked with NASA, and also with the US Army in developing unique vision solutions for their needs. For e-Vision, the roadmap is to make itself known in different industries and they are ready for the prime time—adopting its dynamic, fully tunable optics to the requirements of industry-specific companies, who would then offer the product to the consumer.