Tokai: Indoor Neo
Tokai says its Indoor Neo is a smooth adaptable lens that gives clear vision convenience across varied work environments. The most dynamic wearer now has a choice between three different designs (Extra, Long and Wide) and two corridors (21mm and 23mm) to balance the visual needs of the modern workplace and lifestyle.
The Extra design offers the longest visual field, which is ideal for those needing to move around the work environment. The Long design offers a comfortable balance for long and close visual field requirements, which is advantageous for those needing to see beyond their desk. The Wide design offers the closest and widest visual field, which is suitable for those working mostly at a desk. The corridor of 23mm provides a softer near vision, suitable for first time wearers, whereas the 21mm corridor provides a wider visual field at the near vision area.
Lab3Sixty: Insight Plus
Insight Plus from Lab3Sixty are said to be built for comfort and to alleviate everyday eye strain for wearers that spend a lot of time using digital devices or generally experience dry eyes, blurred vision, headaches, and neck and shoulder pain. The single vision lenses have a small area in the lower region of the lens with an increased power that is customisable for each patient’s needs. Suitable for pre-presbyopes, this lens design considers the user’s accommodative ability to focus on objects at varying distances. The resulting lens is said to offer an excellent visual experience throughout the whole area of the lens with the added benefit of more relaxed vision while conducting close up work.
Optimum: Optiform Smart-2
Optimum describes Optiform Smart-2 as an anti-fatigue lens created expressly for current lifestyle trends and includes IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 technology, which adds the wearer’s own accommodation to optimise the lens for a range of focal distances. Additionally, the lens is designed to alleviate symptoms of eye strain associated with the use of electronic devices, while providing extra comfort and improving near vision with a small near power boost. This results in more relaxed and comfortable vision. Overall, the company says the lens was developed for all those single vision lens wearers with symptoms of digital eye strain.
Seiko: SmartZoom
Seiko notes that the increasing use of digital devices can create additional visual challenges, with devices being used for extended time periods and at shorter working distances. These factors can add to accommodative stress and Seiko SmartZoom utilises four zoom powers within the lower portion of the lens to provide functional support to relieve the symptoms of digital eye strain and improve visual comfort. SmartZoom is made with the latest lens technology, including a 360° inner-aspheric surface design, Balance Zone Technology to improve the lens aesthetics, and SmartZoom Xceed for those wearers who demand the highest precision – an individualised lens option to provide a truly tailor-made option. Seiko also notes that SmartZoom combined with Seiko Super Resist Blue coating can be a powerful solution in today’s digital world.
Norville: Digitor Plus
The Digitor Plus dual surface progressive lens design from Norville features a unique variable front surface base curve. This innovation is said to provide the optically ideal base curve across all viewing zones. Furthermore, the Digitor Plus lenses are said to offer spacious vision zones, improved peripheral vision, better looking lenses in many prescriptions and user-preferred near vision performance. Norville also says the lenses offer wider vision in the reading area, simple unfussy fitting, the option of full individualisation and compensated Rx when specified, as well as seven corridor length designs.
Nikon: RelaxSee
RelaxSee is Nikon’s solution for reducing symptoms of digital eye strain for pre through to early presbyopes. It is a single vision lens with dual-zone technology, which enables wearers to experience uncompromised distance vision and a relaxing zone at near for minimised eye strain when using screens and other digital devices. The lens is available in four options (0.50D, 0.75D, 1.00D and 1.25D) of support in the lower portion of the lens, in indices 1.5 to 1.74 and availability in clear, Transitions and polarised plus base curve selection. RelaxSee meets near and intermediate digital requirements both for indoor and out and provides optimum aesthetics in any frame. Teamed with the company’s SeeCoat Blue coating, further minimising digital eye strain, RelaxSee is said to provide the opportunity to dispense a lifestyle-specific first or second pair to offer patients the best possible visual solution.
Jai Kudo: Wideview Confidence Boost
Wideview Confidence Boost has been specifically developed for non-presbyopes who experience eye strain from constant viewing of objects at near distances, such as books and computer screens. There is an extra power boost in the near vision region of the lens. The lenses are said to offer higher visual quality and facilitate faster focus and reading of small details on digital screens. Created using Jai Kudo’s Smart Add Technology, Wideview Confidence Boost’s benefits include reduced visual fatigue, improved oblique astigmatism and clear vision in every direction. The company says the lenses are designed to combine with its Hydro+ coating and its own brand of photochromic lenses, Optishade.
Essilor: Eyezen Start
The Eyezen Start single vision lens from Essilor is said to support modern lifestyles by relaxing and protecting a wearer’s eyes. The lens is designed for under-40s, but suitable for single-vision users of any age who are switching between devices, adopting new postures, and adjusting to close and variable distances. Revolutionary Dualoptim technology optimises the whole lens surface for distance and near vision using two reference points to bring the right power through the lens based on location of objects and gaze direction. Meanwhile, The Eye Protect System absorbs UV and selected blue-violet light into the material of the lens. Tim Precious, managing director at Essilor UK, said: ‘Patients are spending a lot of time looking at screens. Eyezen Start is a dedicated lens eye care professionals can offer to reduce eye strain and help patients see more comfortably.’
Waterside: VFX
Waterside describes VFX as the first choice option for enhanced visual comfort when using digital devices. Parallel light rays closest to the centre of the lens form the clearest image, but marginal rays at the extremities of the lens, together with lateral light sources and light disturbances, can provide ghost images and blur. This may result in eye fatigue and sub-optimal vision. Utilising honeycomb ‘mesh’ technology, Waterside’s VFX lens is said to reduce the effects of light pollution and scattered light rays to provide cleaner and crisper images, resulting in enhanced vision, reduced glare and improved visual comfort. VFX is available across all indices and materials, including photochromic. While most modern day digital devices allow the user to reduce blue light emittance, VFX employs its own solution with BlueCut technology.