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IXI raises $36.5M for world’s first autofocus glasses
IXI has raised $36.5 million in funding to launch the world’s first autofocus glasses which can correct vision dynamically.
IXI’s existing investors, which include Amazon Alexa Fund, Maki.vc and First Fellow, firstminute capital, David Helgason, Ilkka Paananen, John Lindfors and Bragiel Brothers also participated in the round. Eiden and Miettinen previously founded industry-defining mixed reality company Varjo (which makes products for advanced VR users including astronauts, pilots, and nuclear power plant operators). IXI has raised $36.5 million.The venture was born out of a shared frustration with the compromises people are forced to make when it comes to traditional progressive lenses: narrow fields of view, peripheral distortion, and difficulty seeing clearly at varying distances.
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