By Chase Antunes

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Exciting News for Progressive Lens Wearers

Mar 17, 2025 | 4:00 AM

Struggling with your progressives? You’re not alone. It’s not an uncommon experience among progressive lens wearers. Thankfully, a new technology is transforming the experience, and IRIS Optometry & Opticians in Vernon is the first clinic in Canada that has it.

Traditional progressive lenses were designed to replace bifocals and trifocals and offer a seamless transition between distance, intermediate, and near vision. This hasn’t been the experience for many wearers. Tilting your head to find the reading zone, dealing with a swimming effect on the sides, or juggling multiple pairs of glasses can be frustrating and uncomfortable.

Some patients resort to using multiple pairs of glasses – one for everyday use, another for computer work, and yet another for reading. Apogee progressives are changing all that.

Dr. Mark Langer from IRIS says that what makes Apogee progressive lenses so revolutionary is that they’re designed using dynamic measurements instead of static ones. Traditionally, optometrists measure a patient’s eye position while they’re sitting still, looking straight ahead. “But that’s not real life,” Dr. Langer explained. “No one is sitting there just like that all day long looking straight ahead.”

This new technology uses a virtual reality headset to track how your eyes naturally move when looking at different distances. Dr. Langer described how the headset simulates real-life visual experiences. Patients might follow a hummingbird or a drone as it moves from being at distance into computer range, then hovers at reading distance. The patient’s eye movements are recorded and used to craft a personalized lens that fits their real-world visual needs

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As the first clinic in Canada to offer Apogee, IRIS in Vernon already has patients who have been won over by the new lenses. Dr. Langer said that every single person who has tried them has put them on and immediately commented that it’s a different experience.

The frustration of finding the right zone is gone, and that swimming effect at the edges is dramatically reduced or even eliminated. With the new progressives, these patients can now wear a single pair of glasses for all their daily activities.

Whether you spend a lot of time driving, working at multiple screens, or switching between near and far vision, Apogee is designed to keep up with you.

For an appointment, call or stop by IRIS in the Village Green Shopping Center, or book online at iris.ca.