The OO-Adaptive Optics Platform enables
Clear, Comfortable & Immersive AR/VR visual experiences,
Expanding Addressable Markets & Unlocking Mass Adoption
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More than half the world's population requires some form of vision correction, yet most devices are still designed around the assumption of perfect eyesight. The result is prescription friction; complex workarounds, compromised experiences and billions of potential users left underserved.
Oxford Optical removes this barrier.
The OO-Adaptive Optics Platform enables a single lens to change its optical power electronically, allowing a device to be personalised to an individual user's prescription in seconds.
By transforming vision correction from a product limitation into a driver of accessibility, adoption and growth. The same technology can also dynamically control focal distance, unlocking a more natural, comfortable and immersive experience for users.
By embedding adaptive vision directly into products, Oxford Optical helps manufacturers remove a major barrier to adoption today and is creating the foundation for more advanced immersive visual experiences in the future.
The next growth challenge isn't computing. It's vision.
Smart glasses, AR, VR and other wearable technologies are redefining how people interact with real and digital information. Yet most devices are still designed around the assumption of perfect eyesight, despite more than half of the world's population requiring some form of vision correction.
Today, users who require a prescription are typically dependent on separate inserts or approximate solutions. These compromise the product experience and leave billions of potential users underserved.
As wearable computing develops, the challenge also extends beyond just prescription correction. AR, MR and VR devices typically do not dynamically adjust focal plane to match the virtual content intent. This reduces comfort and immersion for all.
Uncorrected vision is therefore both an immediate barrier to market growth and a fundamental challenge in creating the next generation of natural, human-centred computing.
Dynamic vision. Built in.
Oxford Optical's adaptive fluid-lens technology enables a single lens to change its optical prescription and power electronically, allowing smart glasses, AR, VR and other wearable devices to be personalised to an individual user's vision in seconds.
Embedding OO-Adaptive Optics Platform into devices unlocks:
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Expand the addressable market
Removes prescription friction by personalising devices to an individual user's optical prescription in seconds, without separate inserts or fixed corrective lenses, making wearable technology accessible to billions more people.
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Simplify the product experience
Reduces dependence on multiple prescription configurations and creates a more seamless experience for manufacturers and users.
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Accelerate adoption
Removes a significant barrier between product interest and comfortable, sustained everyday use.
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Enable future visual experiences
Creates the foundation for dynamic focal control across wearable technologies. This has the potential to improve comfort, realism and immersion in AR, mixed reality and VR, while also enabling autofocus eyewear that responds as the user looks between different distances, helping to overcome the effects of presbyopia.
Enabling the next generation of visual computing
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Prescription correction
Personalises smart glasses, AR, VR and other wearable devices to an individual user's optical prescription in seconds. By changing the prescription electronically, a single lens can accommodate different users without the need for separate prescription inserts, fixed corrective lenses or multiple product configurations.
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AR and mixed reality
Controls focal distance dynamically to manage focal rivalry between real-world and virtual content presented at different focal distances. This enables digital content to be integrated more naturally into the user's view of the physical world, creating a clearer, more comfortable and more convincing mixed-reality experience.
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Virtual reality
Enables the focal plane to move in line with where the user's eyes are converging, addressing the vergence-accommodation conflict created by fixed-focus displays. By aligning what the eyes are looking at with where they are being asked to focus, the technology can create VR experiences that feel more natural, comfortable and immersive.
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Presbyopia and autofocus eyewear
Enables lenses to respond dynamically as the user looks between near, intermediate and distant objects. This creates the potential for full-field-of-view autofocus eyewear that compensates for the eye's reduced ability to change focus with age, helping users with presbyopia see clearly across different distances without switching between separate areas of a multifocal lens.
A strategic partner for growth
We partner with device manufacturers, technology companies and eyewear brands to embed adaptive vision directly into next-generation products and platforms.
Through our custom design and prototyping services for specific lens shapes and transfer into licensed manufacture with our CMO, we help our partners address both the immediate challenge of prescription correction and the future opportunity of dynamic focal control.
By transforming vision from a fixed constraint into an adaptive capability, we unlock new users, new markets and new opportunities for growth.
Oxford Optical transforms vision from a constraint into an enabler of scalable, human-centred technology, unlocking the next generation of devices for everyone.