SolidddVision Smartglasses, the first true vision correction for people with vision loss due to macular degeneration, debuted at CES 2025.

Macular degeneration is an eye disease that makes it difficult for people to see what’s in front of them. While their peripheral vision is intact, central vision is severely impaired. Macular degeneration primarily affects the macula, the central part of the retina responsible for sharp, detailed vision. This makes it difficult to see fine details, read, recognize faces, or do things that require clear vision.

The smartglasses technology was developed by Soliddd Corp., a New York optical and vision technology company focused on restoring and improving vision for millions of consumers worldwide with macular degeneration and other conditions. visual ailment.

Soliddd’s scientifically formulated and user-tested virtual reality smartglasses are lightweight and feel like normal glasses. SolidddVision provides the first true vision correction—and, indeed, vision restoration—for those living with vision loss due to macular degeneration.

The smartglasses use Soliddd’s unique and proprietary lens arrays, which resemble a fly’s eye, to project multiple separate images onto parts of the retina that are not damaged. This allows the brain to naturally produce stereopsis (creating a 3D image of the brain) and a full-field image with good acuity that feels like normal, in-focus vision.

At CES, Soliddd showed off a beta headset version of its technology. It will also show a pre-production model of the smartglasses, in their almost final form factor, as the company prepares for clinical trials and market introduction in 2025.

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Soliddd’s invention has been more than a decade in the making, utilizing extensive knowledge of 3D technology, a portfolio of 15 US and additional foreign patents (more pending) and proprietary optics and software including AI technology. in computer vision.

SolidddVision smartglasses use unique optics and software to beam multiple separate, in-focus views of the parallel-ray light field onto all parts of the retina. The brain’s visual cortex automatically constructs a single, stereo, full-field image with good acuity from multiple inputs to each eye. Even if some parts of the wearer’s visual field are blocked or out of focus, the excess visual information received by other parts of the retina converges, resulting in the wearer seeing a full field, well focused and bright image.

“Soliddd has invented the first true vision correction for macular degeneration. We can provide vision in areas of the visual field where patients would otherwise be unable to see,” said Neal Weinstock, CEO of Soliddd, in a statement. “SolidddVision smartglasses are lightweight and easily integrated into everyday life. Our team is mission-driven to help restore and improve the vision of millions of consumers worldwide with vision loss due to macular degeneration.

The SolidddVision smartglasses breakthrough is supported by doctors and scientists including many board certified ophthalmologists, retinologists and optometrists.

“I have seen many demonstrations of SolidddVision in patients affected by many eye disease conditions including age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and stroke,” said Georgia Crozier, director of the Moore Eye Institute. Vision Rehabilitation Center of Pennsylvania, in a statement. “These patients responded positively to the improved visual acuity and all believed that it would help them in their daily activities. The improvement in their reading vision and the ease of use were remarkable. This technology will be groundbreaking.”

Scientists at the Lighthouse Guild in New York analyzed data from a 30-person clinical study conducted by Soliddd in people with macular disease. They found that the results were very encouraging for the SolidddVision technology, showing an improvement in the reading ability of many participants by 50% or more.

SolidddVision smartglasses address the low-vision-aid market comprised of more than 20 million Americans, and about 200 million people worldwide—and expected to grow—living with distorted and even severe vision loss. of vision due to macular degeneration.

The company has received several awards including MassChallenge Alumni 1^St Area 2024; HITLAB Breakthrough Challenge, December 2023; Unicorn Cup, World 1^St Area 2023; and Digital Hub Health Foundation, HLTH 2024. Going to CES 2025, Soliddd earned a Consumer Technology Association Eureka Park Accessibility Award and a Techlicious Editor’s Pick CES 2025 winner as one of the most innovative and impactful products and technologies that stand out from the crowd. It will be at the Venetian Expo, Eureka Park booth #62037, at CES 2025.

Soliddd has raised $1.5 million in funding to date from investors including Beresford Ventures, Peaksjah OU, Global Capital Group, JMB Macro and angels Trout Moser, Derek Myers (Neoti) and others. The company has been working on it for 15 years and it has 12 employees.