The Opternative exam is a bit different than sitting down in an eye doctor's office and squinting to read a chart of letters. First of all, the online test requires you to use both your smartphone, ...

The study was published in Eye, which is the official journal of the The Royal College of Ophthalmologists. The Snellen test requires the patient to read numbers and letters line by line from a ...

Making time to catch the latest Netflix hit? Easy. Making time to visit the eye doctor? Surprisingly difficult. Enter: Online eye exams — because if you can do it from your couch, why wouldn’t you?

Soon you might be able to get your vision prescription right from your desktop before you order those Warby Parker glasses online. No more optometrist waiting rooms. Warby Parker has already made it ...

Opternative, the Chicago startup that built the first online refractive eye exam, announced Thursday that it raised a $6 million Series A. The round, led by Jump Capital with participation from ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- For many of us, eye exams are a must every year, but now some patients are skipping the trip to the doctor and simply logging online instead. "I was a little hesistant at first, but ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Technology that has been in existence for years can save hundreds of millions of Americans from a trip to the eye doctor’s office when they need prescription glasses or contact ...

The concept has ignited a firestorm among optometrists. — -- Getting a prescription for eyeglasses and contact lenses usually means scheduling a trip to the eye doctor, but Chicago-based start-up ...