In Focus: EssilorLuxottica embraces a wearable future at Transitions Academy 2025

Wearables and the future of clinical care took centre stage at Transitions Academy 2025 held February 2-5 in Orlando, with showcases of how smart eyewear and new patient care delivery methods were likely to change optical practices within the next few years.  

Opening the conference, president of Transitions Optical and EssilorLuxottica professional solutions, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Chrystel Barranger, told the 1,300 delegates that technology forecasters had predicted the next five years could see the equivalent of 100 years of scientific research.  

‘What we used to call science fiction is now the norm,’ said Barranger, before showing clips of science fiction films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Total Recall and I, Robot, which depicted early visions of tablets, smart watches and tech-enabled eyewear. She told the audience that glasses had long been a symbol of futurism in science fiction, but with the invention of Ray-Ban Meta, that future was now the present.