New Cutting Edge Progressive lens

This progressive is completely different from every other progressive on the market! So your question might be how is this different? Let me 1st talk about progressive a little more so we are both on the same page. This basic outlet line of how progressive works

This is a very simplified image of how a progressive works. The problem is that peripheral distortion is all over the lens and is concentrated in certain areas. The areas where they put the peripheral distortion are based on an average of where most people look. For a lot of people, that works, but every manufacturer does it differently, and there is no best way to do it. One of the best things but bad for progressives is that everyone is different and everyone likes different things, so one style might work for one person but not the next. The worst is if you have an underlying disease/finding like amblyopia (lazy eye) or macular degeneration. With lazy eye, you have only one eye in the lens working, so how your eye moves the lens is even more important because one doing all the work, and if it's not perfect, it causes vision to not be as good as you would want. With macular degeneration, you may have to look at things not with the center of your vision but off to the side. Some companies have used things like AI to help with progressive design, but sometimes that is not specific enough, like I said, everyone is different. That's where this new progressive comes in! It is called Horizon/Unity via VR progressive. The way this lens is different is due to the measurement we take in the office! The VR is due to the use of a virtual reality (VR) headset to take measurements of how your eyes move. You sit and then watch a video and your eyes follow an objects around and the VR headset records your head and eye movements, and then it sends that data to the lab to make the progressive for your eyes. According to the research, their 100% adeptation to the lens within 24 hours, which is completely unheard of, and 89% of them had adeptation to the lens immediately! Basically, it moves the peripheral distortion away from the areas you look in the lens and puts it in areas you don’t look! It also moves the focus points of the lens to the areas you looked. The image below is an example of Dr. Chappel's results.

If you want to read it all, by all means do, but to summarize, basically in distance I look slightly more right, so I want my distance clear zone slightly more to the right, when come to reading I like looking slightly higher the near zone needs to be shited up and I also do alot more eye movments vs head movements up close so opening up the reading as much as possible is more important then imtermediate zone.

This is Dr. Chappel's opinion, but I think this is the biggest jump in progressives since Freeform progressive! Freeform progressive is a method to remove distortion from the lens using computers and later using both sides of the lens! This came out in 1981, according to some of the research, but others are saying 2000, but I think 1st was in 1981, and closer to 2000 was the 1st large-scale commercial Freeform progressive. This technology has been evolving over almost 30 years now, with no major jump forward. The way they currently do progressives is by offering multiple options for glasses, and sometimes one works better than others, but this is a trial-and-error system, which can be very frustrating for the patient and the office, having to do multiple remakes. That's only one brand, let alone switching brands! The best news for the patient is we just launched the use of this brand new lens in the office (it's so new that the lab just finished getting ready to launch this new lens with all the software). The lab we are using says we are the 1st in Texas to use this lens. This is part of our continued effort to offer the best possible lens and technology in the office for both the health of the eye and for patients' vision in glasses and contact lenses!! The best news for our patients is that the price of the progressive with the use of the headset hasn’t changed the price of our progressive!!!