Researchers at Stanford University have recently unveiled a revolutionary augmented reality (AR) system that promises to transform the direction in which wearable technology is heading. The prototype ...

After years of false starts, the future of augmented reality may depend not on chips or software, but on how light moves ...

Every major tech company except Google might be working on some AR headset or another. While Google may have dropped the ball, rumors about Apple's own AR glasses refuse to die. Naturally, Samsung won ...

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SOME 35,000 persons in this country and an estimated 50,000 in Germany wear contact lenses — invisible plastic shells which fit over the eyeball and under the eyelids. The number here would be much ...

An estimated 150,000 people in the U.S. who are not truly blind have to be treated as if they were, because they have so little useful vision that ordinary spectacles yield them only a faint, blurred ...

Every year smart glasses threaten to become the next big thing in tech. Could Facebook or a smaller player like Vuzix make this happen? The promise of smart glasses is an alluring prospect. Imagine ...

Nearly one third of Down’s syndrome children who wear bifocal lenses to help them focus accurately may only need to wear them for two years, according to new research from Cardiff University. The ...

SINGAPORE: Children who required special spectacles to slow down their myopia progression were found to have been given ordinary lenses, putting them at risk of possible long-term complications. After ...

People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 ...