PlenOptika’s QuickSee Free used on history-making Polaris Dawn mission to space
Polaris Dawn crew, from left to right: Jared Isaacman. Sarah Gillis. Anna Menon, and Scott Poteet. Photo: Polaris Program / John Kraus Astronauts use mobile autorefractor to measure vision changes while in flight KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL, SEPTEMBER 10 — The Polaris Dawn mission launched today with four commercial astronauts in a history-making flight to […]
Dr Bruce Moore brings QuickSee Free to major outreach initiative in Mongolia
Last month, Dr Bruce Moore, Professor at New England College of Optometry, and a team of colleagues and volunteers took QuickSee Free on their mission to screen children in Mongolia, sponsored by Orbis International. The success of the initiative attracted the interest of the Minister of Education and Science of Mongolia Enkh-Amgalan Luvsantseren, who wanted to learn […]
PlenOptika CEO Shivang Dave gives TEDx Talk on innovation strategy
Check out Shivang Dave‘s TEDx Berkshires talk, “Innovating to Scale Vision Care: Move Thoughtfully and Make Things” In healthcare innovation, the popular tech industry bias to move fast and break things often falls short of meaningful impact and can even do more harm than good. In this TEDx talk, our CEO shares PlenOptika’s insights and […]
PlenOptika CEO Shivang Dave named for Washington University alumni award
Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 31, 2024 – We’re excited to announce our CEO Shivang Dave is recognized this year by the University of Washington College of Engineering as one of their Diamond Awards honorees, for translating innovation to impact! Congratulations Shivang and the other accomplished awardees. “I’m honored and humbled to be included among this year’s […]
New research demonstrates QuickSee Free accuracy
Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 2023 – New research published in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics shows measurements from the new handheld wavefront autorefractor QuickSee Free produce a smaller difference between the device and subjective refractions than the difference between the two subjective refraction measurements in terms of mean bias error. Existing studies typically assess autorefractor accuracy by […]
PlenOptika’s QuickSee Free wins Silmo D’Or prize in Material & Equipment
Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2 – QuickSee Free, a new handheld wavefront aberrometry-powered autorefractor from PlenOptika, was named winner in the Material & Equipment category of the 30th SILMO D’Or awards in Paris on Saturday, September 30. “This is a reward for a lot of innovation and work,” said Rodolphe Tessé, President of Saargos, PlenOptika’s distribution […]
What do space flight, UN development goals, and eye charts have in common?
Our new blog post at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health website explores the relationship between engineering for human exploration of space and health technology innovation on terra firma…our collaboration in space flight health research is already influencing our technology development strategy for the potential benefit of billions of us here. Read the story […]
PlenOptika partners with Sightsavers and the Fred Hollows Foundation for innovative task reallocation study
Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 12 – PlenOptika’s partnership with two non-profits, Sightsavers and the Fred Hollows Foundation, pilots a new vision care strategy that aims to dramatically increase global access to vision correction. It’s estimated that, worldwide, one billion people need prescription glasses. While the demand for eye care services is increasing, low and middle income […]
Vision Monday Leadership Summit spotlights technology innovation to increase access to eye care
Vision Monday hosted their annual Leadership Summit in New York, on the eve of one of the eye care industry’s major meetings, Vision Expo East. Under the theme “Insight, Unseen: How Leaders Uncover, Design, and Scale Innovations,” participants explored the frontiers of technology and care innovation, expanded the boundaries of what’s possible, and showed how […]
PlenOptika demonstrates analytical technology to predict subjective refraction
New research in Nature Scientific Reports shows potential for breakthrough technology innovation in vision care In research published this week in Nature Scientific Reports, authors demonstrate that dynamic retinal image analysis using wavefront aberrometry can dramatically improve the accuracy of autorefraction results to predict a vision correction prescription. In “Predicting subjective refraction with dynamic retinal […]