Arriving August 2024, Transitions new GEN S lenses are Transitions Optical's latest technological revolution, incorporating three core performance pillars redefining wearers’ eyewear experience.

• GEN SPEED: Ultra-responsive to light¹

Fully clear indoors and darkens in seconds outdoors. When fully activated, the lens is as dark as a sun lens and fades back in around two minutes.

• GEN SMART: Effortless vision experience²^,³

Offers better visual performance, faster, to ensure a continuous visual experience in harmony with varied and changing light environments. Thanks to its responsiveness to light, it provides a 39% faster vision recovery from intense bright lights vs clear lenses. During fade back, there is a 39.5% improved contrast sensitivity and 40% faster vision recovery vs Transitions GEN 8.

• GEN STYLE: Spectacular colour palette

Available in eight exclusive colours, including the brand-new colour Ruby. The range of lens colours provide endless styling possibilities for wearers to express themselves when pairing frames and lens colours.

References

1. For grey polycarbonate & CR39 lenses with anti-reflective coating fade back to 70% transmission in less than two minutes and activate to 18% transmission @ 23°C in less than 30 seconds; for polycarbonate & CR39 lenses across colours achieving 18% transmission @ 23°C; for polycarbonate & CR39 lenses across colours achieving 18% transmission @ 23°C; for grey polycarbonate & CR39 lenses with premium anti-reflective coating fading back to 70% transmission @ 23°C.
2. Vision quality improved in challenging light conditions, notably in bright to very bright light situations and in low light with peaky stray light (when compared to clear lenses). Subject-masked cross-over randomised controlled investigation performed in 2023 on 30 healthy participants (19.2 ± 1.3 years). Testing light stress (discomfort and disability glare, photostress recovery) with the clear and darkest states of Grey Transitions GEN S 1.6 index lenses with a premium anti-reflective coating compared to clear 1.6 index lenses with a premium anti-reflective coating.
3. A - Subject-masked cross-over randomised controlled investigation performed in 2023 at the University of Georgia, on 30 healthy participants (19.2 ±1.3 years). Testing light stress (discomfort and disability glare, photostress recovery) with the clear and darkest states of Grey Transitions GEN S AR coated lenses compared to clear AR-coated control lenses. Manuscript ready for submission in Journal of Optometry. Harth JB, Wysocky CJ, Hammond BR, Renzi-Hammond LM, Using New Photochromic Spectacle Lenses to Attenuate Light Stress in Healthy Adults.

B – Subject-masked cross-over randomised controlled investigation performed in 2023 at the University of Murcia, on 10 healthy pre-trained participants (29.5 ±4.01 years). Testing contrast sensitivity during fade-back with Grey Transitions GEN S AR-coated lenses compared to Grey Gen8 AR-coated lenses. Accepted abstract at ARVO 2024. Duarte-Toledo R, Mompeán J et al, A new photochromic lens improves contrast sensitivity during fade-back. Manuscript in preparation.