Due to the higher complexity of our visual environment, Progressive Addition Lens (PAL) users can encounter various adaptation challenges. 

Essilor discovered that people facing near-vision challenges can overcome these issues by using a PAL that offers greater postural flexibility, to:

• better keep up with their active lifestyles;

• allow them to frequently change positions during a prolonged visual task.

Essilor, dedicated to innovation, reaffirms its leadership in this comfort territory with a new generation of mid-range premium PAL offer: Varilux® Comfort Max lens. Supported by Flex Optim™ technology, this new lens design provides PAL users a stretched useful vision zone and a broader range of head movements.

Essilor R&D’s avatar simulations gave a first assessment of Varilux® Comfort Max lens performances in virtual environments.

Then, wearer tests confirmed that:

• Varilux® Comfort Max lens design obtained high grades for distance, near and intermediate vision, making it a good all-around progressive lens.

• Even people who had not worn a PAL before gave Varilux® Comfort Max lenses a very high rating