Description

The first full time adopters of AR glasses will be people that are already wearing eyewear on a daily basis. Virtually everyone in this category requires prescription lenses.

In order to allow personalized, prescription AR glasses, mass customization of optics is key. However, this is only part of the picture. This talk will focus on the supply chain that is needed to allow personalized AR glasses for the masses.

There is a lot to learn from an existing supply chain that allows the personalized prescription eyewear that consumers currently have access to. The eyewear industry has solved the problem of delivering personalized glasses by separating the end product into two components; the frame and the lenses.

In the future, AR glasses will be designed in a comparable way to current eyewear; consisting of a smart frame, and smart lenses, containing the display technology.

During this talk we will take a deeper look into the AR ecosystem, and how the development of smart lenses (with integrated light engines) will allow the industry to enable a supply chain that has many parallels with the current eyewear industry.

Specifically, we will focus on how current players in the AR ecosystem will collaborate in the future. Which players will enable smart frames? Which industries will enable the smart lenses, and how? How does software play a role in this?

Speakers

Frank Marsman

Business Developer , Addoptics