World leaders in adaptive focus lens technologies

Adlens

Pioneering the development of lenses that change focus like the human eye – enhancing vision in XR, VR and eyewear.

About Us

Our Focus

Adaptive lenses are the primary solution to key problems that prevent VR and XR from reaching their market potential. These issues cannot be solved by enhancements to software or increased screen resolution alone. Our lenses will make XR and VR experiences more immersive, comfortable and accessible.

Our technology also has the potential to overcome the natural deterioration in your near eyesight as you age, allowing you to see as well as you did when you were younger.

Our Solutions

VR

Adaptive optics are the key to making VR feel more realistic and comfortable, opening it up to a wider audience. Our lenses:

enhance believability and immersiveness by re-engaging the brain’s natural 3D spatial cues. They will also relieve the eye strain and nausea that typically limits usage to 20 minutes.
remove the “one meter barrier” on virtual content that constrains creativity and restricts potential commercial uses of VR.
allow headsets to adjust to match individual glasses prescriptions. This makes them more comfortable and easier to share – vital for families and for business and leisure applications.
allow manufacturers to make headsets smaller (because they no longer need to accommodate glasses). This will also help improve field of view.

XR

Our dynamic lenses solve the “focal rivalry” between virtual content and the real world, allowing genuine mixed reality experiences to be fully integrated.

Eyewear

Our technology could remove the frustration that comes with the natural deterioration of eyesight with age – no more varifocal and bifocal glasses, no more switching between reading glasses. You will be able to see everything in sharp focus with a full field of view at all distances.

Our Team

Get to know us

Adlens is a diverse team of people including scientists, engineers and designers obsessed with giving people better vision. We are excited about pushing new lens technologies and see our role as perfecting the interfaces between the real and virtual worlds, our eyes and our brain.

We are based near Oxford and work with leading global technology and ophthalmic companies.

Our Leadership

Leadership & Advisory Board

James Chen

Founder

Our founder and key shareholder, James Chen, is a venture philanthropist who has become gripped by one issue: 2.5 billion people still struggle with poor vision without treatment. He co-founded Adlens to investigate the technology, followed by Vision for a Nation a charity supporting emerging nations – starting with Rwanda – in providing affordable glasses and primary eye care. Recently James launched the Clearly campaign to inspire promote greater awareness of the global vision issue. His mission is to see a world where everyone has access to vision correction.

John Kennedy

CEO

John is the one who knits it together. Mesmerized by the juggling people do to ensure they have glasses to hand, he knows there’s a better way. An engineer by training, he’s built his experience in tech and consumer growth businesses. When not at work a bicycle never seems far away.

Dr. Rob Stevens

CTO

Rob talks, thinks, breathes physics & optics. He is responsible for developing all the technology that is fundamental to Adlens. If science hasn’t defined it yet as impossible, he’s up for it. Prior to Adlens he was to be found teaching at Oxford University. Cars, children and badminton also vie for his attention.

Sian James

Programme Director

Motivator, organizer and engineer, Siân drives the development of the business. Steeped in innovation from her time at Dyson and Xerox, she has the will to succeed and a wicked sense of humor. In any spare time, she’s a talented chef and scuba diver.

Richard Hill

Chief Products Officer

Richard is our product guy. Design, innovation, consumer experience and attention to detail are all close to his heart. A product designer by training, he’s been design director for the Eurostar station at St Pancras, the new Eurostar trains, the London 2012 brand roll out and more recently the rebranding of the Co-op. His dream car is the Monte Carlo winning 1964 Mini Cooper S.

James Chen John Kennedy Dr. Rob Stevens Sian James Richard Hill

Contact Us

Adlens Limited
Chilbrook, Oasis Park,
1 Stanton Harcourt Rd,
Eynsham,
Witney
OX29 4TP

For more information about Adlens and our technology services email contact@adlens.com or call +44 1865 980400.

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