Jai Kudo
Wideview Confidence Boost
Jai Kudo describes its Wideview Confidence Boost (pictured top) as a revolutionary single vision lens designed to combat visual fatigue during prolonged reading and digital screen use.
The lens incorporates a plus power addition in the near vision area, which is said to effectively alleviate eye strain associated with constant near-distance focus on books and electronic devices.
Developed specifically for pre-presbyopes aged 18 to 45, these lenses enhance visual quality, enabling faster focus and improved readability of small details on digital screens.
Powered by Jai Kudo’s Smart Add Technology, Wideview Confidence Boost offers three different additions (0.50D, 0.75D, and 1.00D) and ensures higher quality features in the near vision zone.
Wearers are said to experience reduced oblique astigmatism, clear vision in every direction, and an overall boost in confidence and comfort.
Said to be ideal for those who spend extended periods reading or using electronic devices, the lens caters to the needs of a tech-savvy and visually conscious demographic.
DSW Optical
Individualised single vision
DSW Optical’s individualised single vision lenses are said to offer the wearer superior visual comfort and reduced peripheral blur, compared to standard lenses.
All that is required to personalise the design are mono pupil measurements and frame fit measurements.
The lab notes that some patients with complex prescriptions, or when wearing some sports and fashion frames, can suffer with poor image quality, especially compared to wearing contact lenses.
By designing an ophthalmic lens around individual prescription and frame fit details, DSW says its individualised single vision lenses can stabilise the image quality in higher prescriptions and wrapped frames, offering more accurate focus at all distances and a more comfortable wearing experience.
Caledonian Optical
HD:SV Drive 2.0
Caledonian Optical offers HD:SV Drive 2.0, which is said to be a cutting-edge personalised free-form single vision solution designed for non-presbyopic drivers seeking visual quality and safety on the road.
Engineered for comfort and performance, the lenses feature a dedicated night vision zone, addressing the challenges of driving in low-light conditions.
The company says HDSV Drive 2.0 lenses boast impeccable visual quality, catering to high prescriptions and wrapped frames. The night vision zone compensates for refractive errors during nighttime driving, reducing eyestrain and enhancing focus.
Said to be ideal for non-presbyopic drivers, these lenses provide greater visual acuity, minimising visual fatigue symptoms and offering optimised vision for dashboards and mirrors.
HDSV Drive lenses feature IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 Technology, which is said to revolutionise lens geometry by considering the wearer’s accommodative capacity.
This innovation optimises 99.5% of gaze directions, ensuring wider visual fields, precise vision, and near elimination of peripheral blur.
Optimum Rx Group
Optiform Perpetual
Optiform Perpetual is a new single vision lens from Optimum RX Group. It benefits from IOT Digital Ray-Path 2, which adds the intelligent use of the wearer’s own accommodation to optimise the lens for a range of focal distances.
This lens has been developed for single vision lens wearers who do not have symptoms of visual fatigue and, at the same time, are looking for a state-of-the-art solution that allows them to carry out their day-to-day activities as normal.
Optiform Perpetual is said to offer impeccable vision while reading on digital devices, without sacrificing enviable aesthetics, thus achieving more relaxed vision.
Eye Index
HD Relax
Eye Index notes a dramatic increase in the use of enhanced single vision lenses to meet an emerging range of lifestyles needs.
The company offers HD Relax, which is said to provide customised anti-fatigue single vision with a choice of three accommodation boosts, and benefits from digital ray path and smart add technologies.
The lab says patients will enjoy more relaxed eyes, increased ability to read text on digital screens with greater precision, and an easy switch from near to intermediate vision. With a strong emphasis on comfort and customisation, the lens is also available with Kleencoat coating technology.
Zeiss
ClearView
ClearView lenses from Zeiss are said to offer the key benefits of freeform technology, but at the same cost and delivery time frame of a stock lens.
Zeiss notes that patients demand comfort and improved clarity for their vision, but standard stock lenses can compromise when it comes to optical quality.
The company says that with ClearView lenses, wearers can now experience excellent visual clarity in a lens that is up to 49% flatter and up to 16% thinner than a standard stock lenses.
This has been achieved through the surface of the lens being optimised across more than 700 free parameters, meaning point-by-point lens design optimisation from the lens centre to the periphery.
The result is said to be a lens that is both very flat and thin, which not only achieves excellent optics, but also looks great.
Tokai
Rest R
Rest R from Tokai is an enhanced anti-fatigue single vision lens specifically designed to reduce eye strain via back surface aspheric technology.
The lens is available in all indices including 1.76 and comes as standard with Tokai’s no reflection coating, which is rated as 99.8% reflection free.
The lenses can also be produced with Lutina (1.6, 1.67 and 1.76 indices) to give UV protection up to 420nm.
Available with adds of 0.50, 0.75, 1.00 and 1.25 and a prescription range from +6.00 to -13.00 with cyls to 4.00, the lenses are said to provide clarity and relaxed vision for nearly all prescriptions.
Tokai says that Rest R is ideal for early presbyopes not ready to take the plunge with a full varifocal but still requiring the widest and clearest distance vision with the ability to see close-up as well.
EssilorLuxottica
Eyezen Start
Eyezen Start lenses from Essilor are optimised single vision lenses that relax and protect patients’ eyes so they can keep up in a connected world.
The lens is designed for single-vision users from 12 years old and up, who are switching between devices, adopting new postures, and adjusting to close and variable distances.
The company says its Dualoptim and Dualoptim S technologies consider two reference points, for far and near vision, so the wearer does not have to strain their eyes to see close-up or when focusing on distant objects.
The whole lens surface is optimised according to object distance and gaze direction, bringing correction throughout the lens and reducing distortions and aberrations.
A BlueUV Filter System also protects eyes from UV and filters blue-violet light.
Alan Pitcher, commercial director for wholesale lenses at Essilor, says: ‘Eyezen Start is our most advanced single vision lens designed to help reduce visual fatigue and eye strain so patients can see more comfortably.’
Norville
Nortor Enhanced
Norville’s Nortor Enhanced is a free form single vision lens designed to give wearers of any prescription an additional level of clarity that can reduce accommodative effort and lead to more comfortable vision.
Wearers of Nortor Enhanced are said to have reported excellent quality of vision at all distances with fast adaptation for previous wearers of conventional lenses.
Norville says the unique feature of Nortor Enhanced is contained in the groundbreaking calculation method, which is able to correct surface aberrations to negligible levels in any prescription.
Patients with low powered prescriptions are said to benefit from the reduction in visual stress as the gaze direction changes, while those with higher powered lenses will also benefit from dramatically increased fields that far exceed those of an aspheric or biaspheric design.
The lens is available in all indices and with any treatments.