Glimpses
RAY-BAN MAKES ITS MARK
AT FORMULA ONE
Luxottica Group S.p.A. has announced a sponsorship agreement with Ferrari S.p.A. Ray-Ban signed
a high-profile agreement as sponsor of Scuderia
Ferrari, to be unveiled during the Formula One
weekend in Silverstone, UK.
As part of the sponsorship, the Ray-Ban logo will
appear on SF16-H Ferrari’s Formula One car livery.
With this sponsorship, the Ferrari racing red and
the Ray-Ban red merge into one single colour
putting the champion eyewear brand in a prime
position in Formula One.
ESSILOR ANNOUNCES
CHALLENGE TO
DEVELOP SOLUTIONS
FOR MEASURING
REFRACTIVE ERRORS
IN UNDERSERVED
POPULATIONS
Essilor, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, has launched the See
Change Challenge to seek innovative
solutions that can improve the lives
of 2.5 billion people by facilitating access to vision care. Specifically, the
See Change Challenge aims to uncover low-cost, easy-to-use and scalable
solutions that can be used by primary
vision care providers in underserved
areas to accurately measure eye
refractive errors.
“Innovation has always been a corvlives by improving sight. Today we
are widening our field of exploration
to ensure we meet the vision needs
of the 7.2 billion people in the world,”
says Hubert Sagnières, chairman and
chief executive officer at Essilor
International.
“We are excited to use the open
innovation model to discover new
solutions that have the potential to
transform the lives and economic
futures of low-income populations
through improved access to vision
care.”
Essilor is appealing to startups,
universities, app developers, vision
scientists, optometrists, engineers
an d all individuals and organizations
with an interest to bring their multidisciplinary expertise to develop
nnovative refraction solutions that
can have profound implications for
individuals as well as society.
The successful challenge proposals
may include pure software solutions,
software solutions based on consumer
devices such as smartphones, or pure
hardware devices. These solutions
would speed up the delivery of vision
care in underserved regions by enabling more people to be easily trained
to become primary eye care workers.
Visit www.essilorseechange.com for
more information.
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