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WAVEOPTICS AND
LUXEXCEL CREATE
AUGMENTED RX EYEWEAR
WaveOptics and Luxexcel recently completely flat and during the printing process,
collaborated to create an exciting and an air gap is created. The 3D-printed structure
innovative module required to develop also provides an accurate mounting for the
Augmented Reality prescription smartglasses projector that ensures perfect alignment when
for the fashionable consumer. The module’s assembled into an optical module.
key features can be customised, manufactured,
The feature of integrating a waveguide
and scaled to help provide the best fit to the
into a 3D printed lens ensures that the eyewear
consumers and fulfil their requirements.
is thinner with an estimated 50 percent
Luxexcel is the only technology provider reduction in the overall weight, as compared
that enables customers to 3D print prescription with legacy lenses. The waveguide is also
lenses while WaveOptics designs and protected by the lens material that creates
manufactures waveguides and projectors to a rugged, dust, and waterproof solution that
unlock the potential of augmented reality for works well for the wearer.
the mass market.
The Chief Technology Officer at WaveOptics,
Guido Groet, Chief Strategy Officer at Phil Greenhalgh, further added, “The
Luxexcel throws more light on the successful combination of WaveOptics’ Katana waveguide,
collaboration, “About 70% of the adult world the thinnest and lightest waveguide on the
population today need vision correction to market today, with the complete encapsulation
see their best. Providing consumers with provided by Luxexcel’s printed lenses creates
a single device that integrates both their an incredibly compact and robust solution that
prescription requirements, as well as smart will withstand real-world use. This partnership
technologies from leaders such as WaveOptics, provides a solution for two of the major product
is a prerequisite in enabling the adoption of planning challenges all of our customers face:
smartglasses by the mass consumer market. how to address prescription accommodation
The combined strengths of the partnership: and delivering a robust waveguide in a form
Luxexcel’s 3D printing platform and factor that can go into a consumer product.”
WaveOptics’ waveguides, create Augmented
In March 2022, SPIE. AR, VR, MR conferences
Reality prescription eyewear that everyone has
will take place where the module will be shown
been waiting for.”
for the first time. Both the companies shall
Manufactured with Luxexcel’s patented 3D also engage in a virtual fireside chat to discuss
printing platform, the module features a fully topics ranging from the partnership to their
encapsulated waveguide in the curved body of respective technologies. The prototype samples
a 3D printed prescription lens. It provides high- of the module will be made available for
quality images because the waveguide remains customers in Q2 2021.
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