Omnifocal glasses pioneer raises Series A
The company is developing eyeglasses that include sensors and liquid crystal materials to adjust continuously to the wearer’s near- and long-distance viewing (see Video: Sensors, liquid crystals make omnifocal glasses).
Two optical sensors in the frames continually analyze the eyes’ pupilliary distance, which changes when the wearer is focusing on objects at different distances. This information used to calculate the distance the wearer is trying to focus on and determines the optical compensation needed to produce sharp vision at that distance. This is used to control the lenses, which are a sandwich construction including liquid crystal material in the middle layer, to produce the appropriate degree of refraction by altering the voltage applied across the liquid crystal and thereby changing its refractive index.
Funding has come from strategic investor ophthalmic optics company Essilor, Taiwan-based Atomics 14 Ventures and several private investors including Saar Wilf, Deep Optics’ chairman and first investor.
Deep Optics is exploring applications for its adaptive electronic lens technology and said it has started discussions with companies in the field of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR).
Phil Chen, founder of Atomic 14 Ventures, said he believes that Deep Optics has come up with a breakthrough technology for improving the depth perception of AR/VR.
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