Joint Seminar by ECE Department, HKUST SID Student Chapter and SKL - Autofocal eyewear: innovative vision correction as a platform for novel smart glass functionalities
Morrow’s Autofocal eyewear tackles the intrinsic trade off multifocal/progressive eyewear users are faced with, being higher reading power and reduced field of view. In the first part of this talk, we’ll introduce the integration challenges that were overcome to make conventional prescription glasses ’smart’, and explain how our product is kept simple but meticulously geared towards the needs of our customers. In the second part, we’ll reflect on the potential roadmap towards more functionalities, and how a collaborative crossover with AR/VR parties might look like.
Jelle De Smet is co-founder and CTO of Morrow, a spin-off from Ghent University and the nanoelectronics research institute imec. Morrow's core technology is based on his PhD research on smart contact lenses at those institutes. He has a MSc and PhD in Engineering Physics and was selected as a MIT Innovator Under 35 Belgium 2017.