Introducing Extended Vision™ Reading Glasses
Readers with Range.
Available in three different ranges. Your workspace. Around your home or office. Or outdoors. All custom made for the way you need to see.
How it works
Pick a lane. We’ll make it wider.
Every lens has a clear lane running through it. Tell us how far down that lane you need to see, and everything you don’t need past it comes back to you as width.
The corridor
Your lane through the lens
If a lens has to focus at more than one distance, those distances have to live somewhere. They get stacked top to bottom: the closest thing at the bottom of the lens, where your eyes go when you look down, and the furthest at the top.
The clear path running between them is the corridor. Step off it to the left or the right and things go soft. That soft part is the price of stacking more than one distance into a piece of glass the size of a business card.
So the question is how wide that path is, and that comes down to how far you asked the lens to reach.
The same desk through two lenses. EV6 stops at six feet, and the width it saves shows up as corridor.
Try it
Bring your range in. Watch your lane open up.
The further in you bring it, the wider your lane, and the more of the lens you get to use. Every range on this slider is one we make. Slide it to the one your day is in.
How far do you want to see?
EV6 Extended Vision Readers
18 inches to 6 feet
Your phone and your laptop, in focus.
The widest lane of the three.
The lens on the right shows the relationship. The shape is right; the exact width depends on your prescription and your frame.
The question everybody asks
Which one should I get?
There’s no best one. They’re three answers to three different parts of your day, and the one you want comes down to the furthest thing you need to see clearly.
So don’t start from the lens. Start from where you are. Name the room you’re in for most of the hours that matter, and the range picks itself.
- Your workspaceOut to about six feetEV6
- Around your home or officeOut to about twenty feetEV20
- OutdoorsUp close and the whole distanceEVinfinity
Why we ask
The distance you don’t need comes back to you as a wider corridor.
A standard progressive reader runs all the way out to the horizon whether you asked for it or not, and reaching that far takes the narrowest lane in the drawer. You then work inside that lane at every distance, all day, including the ones you’re using.
At a desk, the horizon isn’t where you’re looking. Tell us that, and all of it goes into width right where you are. That’s EV6.
Everyone else picks one lens and hopes it covers your day. We’d rather ask where you spend it.
And then people ask
“I read at a 1.5 but I use a 1.0 at the computer. Which one do I order?”
The 1.5. Always the strongest power you need to read up close.
Here’s why that trips people up. Right now you own two pairs because a reader only does one distance, so you bought one for the book and a weaker one for the screen. You’re doing the lens’s job for it.
An EV lens does that part itself. Whatever power you need to read up close is where we start, at the bottom of the lens. Then we ease it off going up, based on how far you told us you want to see. Order the 1.0 and you have just thrown away your reading vision to get something the lens was going to give you anyway.
Roughly half the power at double the distance. You never work this out yourself: you tell us what you read at and how far you want to see, and the lens is built around those two answers.
Still deciding
There’s more than one way to explain this. Here are the others.
Pick your range
Tell us how far you need to see. We’ll design your custom lane.
That’s the whole decision. Name the distance your hours are in, and every distance past it comes back to you as a wider corridor, right where you’re looking.
Then the lane gets built around you. Your reading power sets the bottom of the lens, your range sets the top, and your pupillary distance decides where the corridor sits, so it lands in front of your eyes rather than near them.
Every lens is digitally surfaced to those measurements in California, one pair at a time, with a one year scratch warranty. Nothing about it was stamped out before you ordered it.
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