THERE IS NO REAL INNOVATION OTHER THAN THE ONE YOU PERCEIVE AND APPROVE
They may look similar but not all spectacles lenses are the same. Our lenses are systematically developed, tested and validated by people like you, because we only want to create visual solutions that are relevant to you. Essilor’s innovation process is built around you and only you can tell us the difference you see.
INSPIRED BY YOUR LIFE
You might already know that 80% of information you receive comes from sight, but did you know 40% of your brain activity is dedicated just to vision.
This is why we are dedicated to best visual solutions and strive to address all the complexities of vision.
We work with people like you to examine their vision and visual habits allowing us to develop and test vision solutions in real life situations.
HOUSELAB™
Understanding your vision in daily life situations is key to developing lenses and to ensure they are adapted to you. The HouseLab™ has been built specifically to run a range of tests to observe and record how people behave when wearing spectacles. How they walk up and down stairs, read, use digital devices, cook, DIY and everything else that happens in their own home.
CARLAB™
Good vision is critical to safe driving. The CarLab™ helps us understand how to improve vision for road users. In a controlled environment we simulate glare and other vision situations that drivers regularly encounter. By measuring theses experiences we develop solutions to combat and enhance.
SIMULATOR
Physiological and behavioural data is captured during the processes using a multi-sensory digital technique in 3D virtual reality and simulations, allowing us to amplify specific real-life effects and reactions. From the findings we are able to draw specifications that are compliant with the visual and postural needs of each person.
MOVIS ROOM
Multiple cameras that detect behaviour in real-life situations, such as your movements and posture when reading or using digital devices. The MoVis room has helped us identify new behaviours linked to digital device usage and led us to develop Eyezen lenses and, most recently, identifying near vision behaviour, leading to the development of Varilux X series lenses.
We explore new horizons in the optical world: electronics, digital, IT.... We are always aiming to improve people’s vision and our innovative bespoke vision solutions are as unique as your vision.
LIVE OPTICS™
Wearers test our lenses in blind product tests in real-life situations, known as Live Optics™, allowing us to establish how our innovations are improving people’s visual experiences during their everyday life. Only vision solutions that obtain the highest satisfaction levels are developed further and make it to your optician. Although they are invisible, there are a lot of technologies at work in a lens. That’s what defines the difference between one spectacle lens to another.
COMPLEX EYE CONDITIONS
We create personalised solutions to help people with complex vision conditions that traditional lenses cannot correct. Our eye care partners collaborate with our R&D labs in Paris, Dallas and Singapore. There we perform complex calculations for custom-designed lenses with a unique industrial process at our Special Lenses laboratory in France.
Highly skilled in crafting lenses, the team has been able to correct a -108.00D short-sightedness for a professional photographer in Slovakia, manufacture a 35.00D prismatic correction for a patient in the Czech Republic and craft a +70.00D lens to help an Australian woman see more comfortably again.
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Effective innovation and testing also requires external, objective input. Working with reputable independent third parties worldwide such as: Paris Vision Institute, Universities of Shangaï and Wenzhou and Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. Essilor is partnered with the most advanced academic and research entities worldwide to develop lens innovations and new vision solutions.
RECOGNITION
In 2018, Essilor was ranked, for the 8th consecutive year, among the world’s 100 most innovative companies by Forbes Magazine.
INCLUSIVE BUSINESS MODELS
We seek to make visual solutions accessible in emerging countries whose populations are often excluded because of financial, cultural or geographical barriers.
2.5 Vision New Generation is an innovative inclusive business model designed to be scaleable and sustainable which has developed programmes like Eye Mitra, which has already brought primary vision care services to rural areas in India.
