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BostonSight held annual FitAcademy retreat

BostonSight held annual FitAcademy retreat

BostonSight, a nonprofit eye healthcare organization that advances the treatment of diseased and damaged corneas and dry eyes held their annual FitAcademy Retreat for Cornea and Contact Lens Residents and Fellows at New England College of Optometry (NECO) in Boston, September 13-14, 2024. This year marked the sixth iteration of FitAcademy, an educational retreat for…

ZEISS to license CREAL’s technology to create a digital vision care platform

ZEISS to license CREAL’s technology to create a digital vision care platform

CREAL today announces a license agreement with ZEISS with the aim to create a digitized vision care platform that hopes to revolutionize the current vision diagnostic and treatment procedures. By leveraging CREAL’s light field display technology, ZEISS will bring to market devices that allow for the digital examination of eye conditions as well as virtual…

LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning

LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning

Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.

Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry

Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry

An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…

BostonSight – annual FitAcademy Retreat

BostonSight – annual FitAcademy Retreat

BostonSight®, a nonprofit eye healthcare organization that advances the treatment of diseased and damaged corneas and dry eyes held their annual FitAcademy™ Retreat for Residents at New England College of Optometry (NECO) in Boston, September 15-16, 2023.

Haag-Streit UK moves to new premises

Haag-Streit UK moves to new premises

Haag-Streit UK (HS-UK) has announced that they have moved the UK headquarters from Harlow to Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. The new site is just ten miles away from the previous Harlow location, where the company has been for more than 30 years.