Product: EyeQue VisionCheck
Top Line: EyeQue is releasing the EyeQue VisionCheck personal vision tracker, an automated optical device built for consumers to measure and track their refractive error and order eyeglasses with the results. VisionCheck has been named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Technology for a Better World Category. EyeQue has launched a VisionCheck Kickstarter campaign to take pre-orders, gather product feedback, and to reward early adopters of EyeQue technologies.
Close Up: Based on MIT technology, VisionCheck combines a cloud-based platform, a smartphone application, and a motorized optical scope to form a low-cost, easy to use mobile solution for people to gather corrective vision measurements whenever and wherever they choose. The scope attaches to the consumer’s own smartphone screen and uses Bluetooth to send data to the phone.
“We’re committed to bringing affordable, accurate, easy-to-use vision health trackers to market such that anyone, anywhere can take an active role in their own vision care,” said John Serri, PhD., co-founder and COO of EyeQue. “VisionCheck is the manifestation of remarkable optical ingenuity and heeded customer input. Leveraging Bluetooth technology, improved optics, a precision motor for automatic lens rotation to measure astigmatism, and an enhanced user-testing interface the product is now even more accessible and easier to use than its predecessor while remaining highly affordable.”
Vital Stats: VisionCheck measures refraction error of each eye and produces results in the form of EyeGlass Numbers: lens power needed to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The smartphone attachment contains three precision optical lenses that automatically rotate internally using a high precision motor, capturing each meridian (9) of the eye, measuring focus and astigmatism. The optical scope contains a rechargeable battery, a Bluetooth control interface and a sophisticated touch mechanism. The smartphone application is free to download and includes a uniquely accurate digital pupillary distance (PD) tool enabling the user to gather their PD, a measure required to order eyeglasses.
EyeQue’s mobile refraction measurement technology is based on an MIT patent employing the Inverse Shack Hartmann optical method – a technology exclusively licensed to EyeQue.
Once a consumer completes a series of eye tests, results are instantly processed via EyeQue Cloud through powerful algorithms and appear in the form of EyeGlass Numbers with spherical, cylindrical, and axis figures—the same values an eye doctor uses to issue a prescription. Consumers can use these results to order eyeglasses through online retailers from the convenience of home– saving time and money both in terms of taking a test and obtaining their new glasses.
EyeQue does not issue prescriptions. The company says the EyeQue VisionCheck and EyeQue Personal Vision Tracker accurately measure for refractive error and detects changes between regular eye exams when properly used. These tests do not replace a comprehensive eye exam that evaluates ocular health and binocularity. EyeQue strongly recommends people visit an eye care professional annually to receive a complete eye health exam.
The EyeQue VisionCheck will be available for demonstration at the upcoming CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
www.eyeque.com