VSP Optics Launches BluTech Lenses

The VSP Optics Group will launch Unity BluTech lenses this week at Vision Expo East. Infused with natural melanin and ocular lens pigments, the lenses protect the eyes from harmful, high-energy blue light. Blue light, the most harmful light that penetrates all the way to the back of the eye, is radiated by fluorescent and CFL light bulbs and the screens of computers, tablets, smartphones and televisions. Read more.

Read more about VSP Optics Group: http://opticalceu.blogspot.com/2012/03/vsp-optics-expanding-unity-line.html.

Essilor released a similar lens: http://opticalceu.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-lens-from-essilor-controls-emission.html.

VSP Optics Introduces New Digital Progressive

VSP Optics Group will add a new digital, N category progressive to its line of Unity Performance Optics. It is called Unity PLxpression with Cascade Technology.The lens will reportedly offer the wearer:

• Optimized viewing zones through variable base curve technology.
• Advanced position-of-wear customization.
• Improved cosmetics with thinner, flatter lenses.

Cascade Technology, a patented technology exclusive for the new lens, begins with a variable base curve blank. This allows for achieving what VSP says is an ideal curve at each point of the lens, which is different from standard freeform lens blanks that use a constant base curve throughout the lens. Read more.

VSP Optics Expanding Unity Line

At the 2012 International Vision Expo East, VSP Optics Group announced that it will expand the portfolio of its Unity Performance Optics products with the introduction of Unity PLxtra and PLxtreme digital progressive lenses, Unity SVxtra and SVxtreme digital single vision lenses, and Unity CVx computer vision lenses. The new products will be available April 10, 2012. Read more.