December 2, 2016 - 16:17 AMT
Prescription lenses for Snapchat Spectacles now available

Rochester Optical is now offering prescription lenses for your Snapchat Spectacles. Having already launched prescription solutions for the most advanced augmented and virtual reality devices on the market including Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, Epson Moverio, and Intel Recon Jet, this announcement further establishes the company as the optical leader in wearable technology, the company said in a statement.

Patrick Ho, CEO of Rochester Optical comments: “We’ve been working with heads-up displays for a long time, and Spectacles are just a form of smart glasses without the heads-up-display. We already cut similar notches in lenses for Google Glass to accommodate the HUD, so cutting rounded notches in the lens corners to work around the Spectacle cameras is very similar.”

Pricing for lens insertions for Spectacles varies based on prescription strength, lens type, and options such as photochromic or polarized lenses, harmful blue-light blocking lenses, and other optional add-ons; but standard single vision lenses start at $99.