What They Say
Klaus Melakari – CTO from VarjoPixieray is a new company that has emerged from stealth and is developing a range of adaptive eyeglasses which enable people with a farsighted eyeglass prescription to read and work with optimal vision, removing cumbersome multifocals and the need to switch eyeglasses. Optical strength can be adjusted by the wearer over time to match changes in their vision. Pixieray technology also significantly increases the clear field of view compared to multifocal lenses.
The company has received $4.4 million of seed funding and has been started by three staff from Finnish AR headset maker Varjo. The company also has Professor Jocelyn Faubert as a company advisor (Director of Faubert Lab at the Université de Montréal).
What We Think
Although this story is not really about displays, it did occur to me that if you had dynamically adjustable eyeglasses, you could co-ordinate that with a display to make a very realistic feelingAR or VR system. Varjo had its own gaze recognition technology and to make glasses dynamically adjustable, you would have to be tracking gaze, I think. (BR)
