Making a traditional glass lens requires a lot of experience, skill, and patience grinding a piece of glass to the required shape, and is not for the casual experimenter. Making a glass Fresnel ...

If you are a Hackaday reader, you probably know what a Fresnel lens is. You find them in everything from overhead projectors to VR headsets. While it seems commonplace now, the Fresnel lens was an ...

His latest work, My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses, is a thoughtful poem about the make-up of memories and how they work through our system. “Most of my work comes from a scientific point of view.

Imagine a world where augmented reality glasses are as lightweight and comfortable as everyday sunglasses, or where ...

A team with researchers at the University of Tokyo and JSR Corp. fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel zone plates (FZPs), but did so for the first time using only common semiconductor ...

A growing library of quality lenses backs Nikon's mirrorless Z camera system. We're here to break down what's available and ...

Researchers introduce a cost-effective method for producing optical Fresnel zone plate lenses, using colored photoresists for ...

The Quest 3S is the latest in Meta's attempts to bring VR to the people (I guess). Point being, there's no PC or PlayStation ...