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How far is each pupil away from the middle of your nose, where is your eye rotation center how big is the tilt of the frame in your face, and a few things more… With all the information the blue zones on the lens can be best distributed for you individually to have the widest field of view. And to not get the result on the left side here above with the standard set of parameters. Just ask your optician if one of the parameters is out of place. Maybe you just have standard parameters in your face and then of course you would not benefit from the feature.
As the Add value increases most people will benefit from it. The Varilux Comfort Design has been on the market for a while as has been updated to newer standards over the years. This design was one of the first to adopt the freeform technology to provide the wearer natural vision by large viewing zones in combination with a soft periphery.
When the periphery is designed with a soft design which most progressive lens designs have today the distortions of the lens are slightly noticeable as you perform eye movements into the periphery. The image just gets a little blurrier but with a slight increase the more you look into the sides.
Compared to that hard progressive lens designs gives you wider clear zones but then the distortions will be more noticeable as you perform eye moments into the periphery. There is a great resource if you want to get more into the mathematical part of designing progressive lenses by Werner Koeppen. The thing with this design is the development of progressive lenses continually progresses in incremental steps. And if you get a Varilux Comfort Design it is made out of a blank that is compatible with this design which is the raw product before it gets cut to your prescriptions.
In short, you can not make every lens design out of every blank. This lens design can be adjusted very uniquely in 0,1mm increments in regards to where the reading zone is in front of your eyes.
These distances get measured with Visio Office 2 which is a device made by Essilor to unfold the full potential of their lenses. So now that I talked a little bit about the lens design when would I choose it and when not.
If you have very high prescriptions or you want to use digital devices like your Ipad a lot it might be a good idea to consider the X design which is more optimized for those situations. The Varilux Physio 3. You can choose with these lenses whether you want a lens design that focuses more on distance vision, has a balanced design, or is more built for near range activities.
That means your fields of view are pre-adjusted by design. If you drive a lot in your car and you want to get the distortions out of the way as much as possible for the distance vision you can order it that way. As you do this near vision gets a little bit more compromised. I really like this feature. Of course, it takes more time during the consultation to find out what is the perfect choice is for you but this is why I love being an optician so much.
With the Varilux Physio we stepped up a little bit in the lens quality and what comes with this Varilux lens is the Binocular Booster Technology to let your eyes play together as smoothly as possible.
With progressive lens designs, you are forced to perform eye movements out of the center of the lenses. If you do this there are prismatic effects that will occur. So your left eye sees the picture slightly above or lower as the right eye can observe it. By choosing a shorter lens design in general you can minimize the effect. The physio takes this into calculations directly and optimizes the lenses to give you a smooth transition from far to near vision. If your needed prescription is different in both eyes this lens design may give you more comfort in vision.
The E Design is based on the nanoptix calculations that address a common issue with progressive lenses. The swim effect. As with the Swim Control Technology built-in, a lot of people still have to adjust to their new Varilux lenses but a lot of people recognize the effect of fewer distortions while performing head moments in rotation or tilting their heads.
By implementing the nanoptix into the calculations of the lenses the off-balance feeling many people have when wearing progressive lenses can be reduced.
This can stem from lines that are actually straight but appear to be bent as you look through your lenses. I do not claim here that those effects are totally gone with the E Design but I do think it addresses this issue fairly well and our customer feedback confirms that. With Varilux X, several wishes from progressive wearers will be considered here. It combines the already mentioned nanoptix technology to reduce swim effects in combination with synchroneyes to maximize the field of view in both eyes simultaneously.
As the last decades passed by our lifestyle changed a lot. Oftentimes we are more focused on the near range constantly switching screens and distances. Varilux X takes that into consideration. The result is a less needed head movement to find the right zones in the lens in order to see clearly.
That gives you as a wearer more comfort in vision because you have wider fields of view in the near range in the distance from 40 to 70 cm and less stress with blurry sides because you do not need to adjust as much with the head. I had a handful of customers that told me the Varilux X Series replaced their progressive computer glasses but that is not the general case. Most of the time people notice a slight change as they do not have to adjust as much.
But it is still a progressive lens and you should realize that you need to point your nose at things you want to look at. Because as I said before we progress in incremental improvements here to give you a realistic expectation. Older lens designs as the before mentioned lens designs are optimized for reading a DIN A 4 sheet of paper.
The distance that was set for you holding the sheet of paper was estimated to be 40cm. But that were the old calculations today we use more distances in the near range as we used to do. And we are constantly switching. So the Varilux X takes multiple distances into account.
That are some really nice adjustments for the masses of wearers of these high-end progressives. However, if you do not need the arm length distance at all in your daily routines you might not notice any differences to previous versions of Varilux designs. The Varilux Xclusive has all the advantages from the X Design but it is a little bit more customized to your near range reading behavior.
Compared to its predecessor the Varilux S it performs better in more space in front of you in which you can see sharp. That leads to faster adjustments to see clearly and an easier adaptation process.
The Varilux Xclusive customization is made by considering the measurements from a separate device that collects your near-vision behavior profile. This is pretty neat because it takes the following into account. Varilux lenses are definitely pushing the boundaries here of how much-personalized data you could take into account to get you the most comfortable vision possible. And as you think about it, it just makes sense.
We are all a little bit asymmetric in our behaviors and our bodies. The Eye movements of a 2m tall guy and where he looks through the lenses are just totally different from a smaller woman with a smaller pupilar distance. Giving both the same lens with the same reading zones would be optimal for none of them. We are just too unique for one progressive lens design to fit all. So maybe you realized by now that one or the other lens designs may fit you better because of the features that come with it.
But now we want to get into three examples to give you a clearer understanding. In the picture, you can see me three times. On the left, my pupilar distance is a little bit smaller. On the right, my pupillary distance is a few millimeters wider.
When I choose progressives I may not get the difference of the Varilux lenses so much because my eyes can still adjust to the near range.
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