Author: Hanna Diewald

The Vision Council raises more than $150,000 for the Open Your Eyes scholarship program

The Vision Council is pleased to announce that, to-date, more than $150,000 has been raised for the Open Your Eyes Scholarship Program through a virtual auction, company pledges and individual donations. The Open Your Eyes Scholarship Program is a charity, created by The Vision Council through the Better Vision Institute, designed to support high school…

The Vision Council announces Open Your Eyes Scholarship Program

The Vision Council, through the Better Vision Institute, is pleased to launch the Open Your Eyes Scholarship Program, a  charity designed to support high school students in marginalized communities throughout the United States who have an interest in pursuing a career in the optical industry. The program will support selected students through monetary scholarships to…

Coburn Technologies introduces Christopher Lentocha as new Director of Service

Coburn Technologies, Inc. is pleased to welcome Christopher Lentocha to their service team as their new Director of Service. Lentocha will lead and implement Coburn’s service plans for their United States and Latin America markets. This will include providing leadership, guidance, training and support to the field service team, technical support, and Customer Care Center…

The Vision Council announces topics and speakers for the 2021 Executive Summit

  The Vision Council  shared details on the themed breakout sessions planned for the 2021 Executive Summit, taking place virtually from January 26–28, 2021. On Wednesday, January 27 and Thursday, January 28, The Vision Council will present three breakout sessions each day focused on the topics of Senior Leadership Tactics, Marketing Strategies and Telehealth. Hosted…

tooz technologies launched smart glasses in China

tooz technologies has developed an optical platform which enables cost-effective, unobtrusive and turnkey smart glass solutions. In December 2020, the German start-up, a spin-off from Zeiss and today a Zeiss-Telekom joint-venture, launched its first smart glasses developer kit in China. Software developers are hereby given the opportunity to explore the potential of this eyewear revolution…

The Vision Council releases VisionWatch Q3 2020 Market Research Reports

The Vision Council has released its quarterly VisionWatch market research reports for Q3 of 2020, indicating a net increase of 1.2 million vision correction users year over year from September 2019 to September 2020 and $37.46 billion in retail revenues during the same period. Designed exclusively for the optical industry, the VisionWatch research reports are…

How eyewear goes green – within the realm of the possible

Today every company is talking about becoming sustainable. That is the future. But it is also a demand that many consumers – especially from Europe – and many governments are now making. However, entrepreneurs consider some “green” demands to be unrealistic. But how does a viable way of making the global frame and lens production…

Optical Coating Entrepreneur, Jean Gehrig, dies at 79

Jean Gehrig, founder of SCL International, a cleaning and hard coating machine manufacturer based in France, passed away in November 2020. For all who met Jean, they will remember a gentleman, a professional, a real entrepreneur. He was an electrical engineer who founded two companies before SCL International was formed in 1993, producing dip coating…

IOT launches new personalized lens calculation technology

Digital Ray-Path 2 works in synergy with nature by harnessing the innate power of the human eye to create advanced lens designs. IOT has just launched the Digital Ray-Path 2 technology, an evolution of its predecessor, Digital Ray-Path. This new technology, in addition to mathematically minimizing oblique aberrations, adds the intelligent use of the wearer’s…

Schneider Anti Fog: Now available for most AR-coaters

The bad news: Wearing face masks will most likely remain for some time to come. The good news: Glasses will no longer fog up thanks to the Schneider Anti Fog Coating technology. All you need is one single consumable chip! Insert and go: No matter what equipment and size you are using, the Schneider Anti…