Making a traditional glass lens requires a lot of experience, skill, and patience grinding a piece of glass to the required shape, and is not for the casual experimenter. Making a glass Fresnel ...

They take standard single vision lenses as designed for the Zenni #550021 round glasses frames, and let them fit nicely inside a Oculus Quest, Quest 2, or Rift S headset. [tanvach] supplies ...

The lens market seems to be particularly fecund at the moment. Heath McKnight rounds up some of the newest releases across a range of styles and types. There is a wide variety of lenses available, and ...

The glasses I tried featured lenses just 5 grams heavier than standard ... Zeiss’s smart glasses sound far-flung, something to round out the decade rather than show up on shelves next year.

Such lenses, made from light-warping metamaterials, might someday replace the heavier glass lenses used in everything from microscopes to phone cameras. In a normal lens, a curved glass surface a ...

As reported by the researchers in the journal Nature Communications, this "intelligent" behavior of the micro-lens is enabled by the hybrid glass material from which it is made. The molecular ...