Nearly two years ago, Wearality created a unique Fresnel lens for VR headsets offering a claimed 150 degree field of view. The company successfully funded a VR viewer featuring the lens called ...

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MUNICH, Germany—ARRI has announced the addition of the Orbiter Fresnel lens to its selection of Orbiter optics, making its LED luminaire even more versatile. Combined with Orbiter’s ARRI Spectra light ...

Outer Banks Voice It stands just under 10 feet and weighs 5,050 pounds and is the future crown jewel of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The reproduction of the original 1853 ...

A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...

On Monday, expert lampist Chad Kaiser got to work disassembling the more than 100-year-old Fresnel lens at the Dali Museum in Monterey. “Compared with several other lenses around the country, it is in ...

Fresnel lenses consist of a flat surface with interspaced, concentric steps whereby each step corresponds to the surface of a conventional lens. Each step thereby acts as a refractive surface, much ...

Struck by the beauty and lore of lighthouses, journalist Hailey Branson-Potts shares her favorites from across the state — ...

The history of optics began long before Christ in the regions where ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians used to live. The Indian subcontinent, the Greek people, and the Islamic world should be ...

Two historic lighthouses in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, are receiving new lighting systems. The Plum Beach Lighthouse will get a rotating LED beacon to mimic its historical appearance. An antique ...