Optimum Rx Group: Optiform Dual 3
Optiform Dual 3 from the Optimum RX Group is said to be a revolutionary progressive lens that applies the latest innovations in lens design technology. The key to Optiform Dual 3’s innovation lies in its dual-surface design, which combines the benefits of two distinct lens surfaces.
This design is said to optimise the visual experience by minimising distortions, reducing peripheral aberrations, and providing a wider field of view. Wearers can enjoy clear and natural vision across all distances, enhancing their overall visual comfort.
Another notable feature of Optiform Dual 3 is its customisation capabilities. Each lens is tailored to meet the unique needs and preferences of the wearer, considering factors such as prescription strength, frame dimensions and lifestyle requirements.
This personalised approach is said to ensure a precise fit and maximise visual performance.
Essilor: Varilux XR
Varilux XR series, which launched in the UK earlier this year, is described as Essilor’s most high-tech lens to date. According to the lens company, it is the first time its R&D team has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to deliver an eye-responsive progressive lens for instant sharpness in motion.
By predicting the visual behaviour of the patient and bringing binocular optimisation to the next level, XR-motion technology is said to reduce the optical disparities between the two lenses and ensures precise positioning of the focus zones adapted to each wearer.
As a result, Varilux XR series lenses claim to offer instant visual sharpness even in motion, with adaptation from the first day and natural ocular navigation.
Alan Pitcher, commercial director for wholesale lenses at Essilor, says: ‘Our scientists have created a digital twin to capture the exact detail that a wearer needs a spectacle lens to deliver and then built this insight into the lens with XR-motion technology.’
Younger Optics: Trilogy Transitions Xtractive Polarised 
Younger Optics says Trilogy Transitions Xtractive Polarised lenses offer protection, style, and comfort for patients. Dynamic polarisation delivers up to 90% polarising efficiency in direct sunlight and are clear and unpolarised indoors.
The polarisation efficiency and darkness increase and decrease together in relation to the intensity of UV light exposure. Xtractive photochromic technology is said to ensure the lens will darken to a category 2 filter behind a car windscreen and category 3 in direct sunlight, and block up to 45% of blue-violet light indoors and up to 90% outdoors (400-455nm).
Trilogy is made from Trivex, which Younger says is the lightest and strongest lens material available today. Trilogy Xtractive Polarised lenses are suitable for glazing into rimless and semi-rimless mounts and for eight base wrap designs.
Caledonian Optical: Imperium 
Caledonian Optical’s new lens, Imperium, is said to be an affordable and effective myopia management solution that reduces the need for stronger spectacle lenses and the risk of developing associated eye diseases.
The digitally surfaced lens is said to be clinically proven to slow the progression of myopia and, although it looks like a normal single-vision lens, has two zones of positive power to induce myopic defocus in the lateral areas of the lens.
These zones coincide with areas of increased retinal cell distribution, thereby reducing the stimulation for the eye to elongate.
With prominent upward gaze directions, children will benefit from the central, vertically orientated zone which provides the prescribed power.
As well as providing initial training to gain accreditation to dispense Imperium, additional training and business support is available from Caledonian to help develop myopia management services.
Hoya: Sensity Fast
Sensity Fast is the newest member of Hoya’s Sensity family of lenses and boasts the fastest fade-back speed achieved to date. Sensity
Fast has precision photochromic technology for long-lasting performance that is said to provide improved convenience and a stylish appearance.
Hoya says Sensity Fast is ideal for previously unhappy photochromic wearers or first-time wearers looking for fast fade back and provides a photochromic solution for younger and more active patients looking for a lens to keep up with their busy lifestyle, with the confidence of full UV protection.
Hoya’s research shows there is a sizeable, untapped audience who would benefit from the convenience of photochromic lenses but are hesitant to try them due to slow fade-back speeds. Sensity Fast is aimed at this section of the market and is available at the same price as Sensity and Sensity Dark.
Lab3Sixty: Evo
Lab3Sixty says its new Evo generation of general-purpose progressive lenses can be configured for patients’ lifestyles, allowing for a
better-suited lens design and greater wearer satisfaction. The design features an initial configuration where the distance, near and intermediate fields are balanced. This configuration is said to make the product more versatile and adaptable to most wearers.
Three additional configurations are available for patients with specific lifestyle needs and require optimised visual areas in the distance, intermediate and near.
Evo benefits from technology to provide a strict control of average power in the far distance vision zone and virtually eliminates peripheral spherical power error, thus helping to negate any unwanted swim effect.
Eye Index: HD Camber Life Varifocal
The latest HD technology from specialist prescription house, Eye Index, is said to offer huge technical and patient benefits, along with excellent value prescription options. The HD Camber Life Varifocal is an extra soft lens that is customer-designed and based on patient lifestyle information.
The lens is said to achieve minimum lateral distortion, create superior image stability, and provide excellent vision correction through technology that combines complex curves on both surfaces of the lens.
The unique surface curvature of the specially designed lens blank allows expanded reading zones with improved peripheral vision. This is said to be ideal for wearers looking for innovative solutions and the best visual experience.