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ZEISS SmartLife lenses

Your go-to lens portfolio for a digitally-immersive world.

The best complete lens portfolio by ZEISS, designed for dynamic visual behaviour. SmartLife® lenses are innovative, modern products catering to the visual needs of wearers as young as 6 years and older. The latest and best ZEISS technology combined with your service and expertise will give your customers a whole new vision experience, and create loyalty.

  • Gives all-day visual comfort for dynamic visual behaviour
  • Designed for a digitally-immersive lifestyle
  • Lens designs adapt to changes in vision, as wearers age

The ZEISS SmartLife lens evolution

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Why did ZEISS develop the SmartLife lens portfolio?

It's the answer to a changing lifestyle.
  • > 50%

    More than half of the world`s population now carries a portable digital device.2

  • 57%
  • 55+ years

    People aged 55+ years represent the largest current smartphone penetration growth rates.2

  • 48%

    of children under the age of 5 years are already starting to engage with smartphones.3

Young man wearing ZEISS SmartLife lenses looking at his phone while walking.
Young man wearing ZEISS SmartLife lenses looking at his phone while walking.

Your customers’ lifestyle and visual behaviour have changed.

Your customers live in a fast-paced world, constantly connected to people, information and things, both on- and offline. They tend to have their eyes glued to digital devices even when they are on the move. And yet, life is about more than just screens. Constantly switching between digital devices and physical surroundings can be challenging for the eyes and may lead to uncomfortable vision or eye strain. This can make even ordinary tasks feel harder, or worse. Good, comfortable vision is crucial to take on every day, confident and aware. Your customers don’t only need clear central vision but also smooth peripheral vision. This helps them to easily switch between different distances and directions as they navigate through life.

Our visual needs evolve as we grow older.

Anatomical and physiological changes of the eyes can lead to different visual challenges over time. No matter how young or old your customers are, they must deal with the visual strain that has become part of their modern lifestyle. In addition, their visual needs also change with age. This can be attributed to three key factors:

  • A decrease in the amplitude of accommodation.
  • A change in pupil diameters – increasing for growing children and decreasing when we age as adults.
  • Kids and teenagers differ in age-specific facial anatomy and morphology resulting in changing parameters of wear to consider in the lens design.
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    A superior portfolio addressing the visual needs of spectacle lens wearers today.

    The new and complete SmartLife® Portfolio from ZEISS is a response to these relevant customer insights and extensive research. Whether your customers need single vision lenses, multifocal lenses or something else, our solutions will help all spectacle lens wearers to keep up with the times.

    • Easy and simple to sell.
    • Gives your customers wide fields of view and all-day visual comfort for a connected and on-the-move lifestyle, no matter what their age or visual challenge.
    • Provides ease of viewing and relaxed vision in all distances and directions with proven high-quality vision.
    • ZEISS SmartLife Lenses adapt the lens designs to changes in vision, as the wearers age.
    • The portfolio now also includes ZEISS SmartLife Young to cover the specific visual needs of teens and children from as young as 6 years.

    Proven customer satisfaction with ZEISS SmartLife lenses.

    • 94%

      of wearers experience all-day comfortable vision.1

    • 81%

      adapt to their lenses within 1 day.1

    • 98%

      would recommend these lenses to their friends and family.4

    • 80%

    The innovation behind ZEISS SmartView 2.0 technology. Incorporated in all ZEISS SmartLife lenses.

    • Icon showing a circle with three arrows symbolizing smart dynamic optics.
      Smart Dynamic Optics

      State-of-the-art 3D object-space-models and new design fingerprints adapted to today’s dynamic visual behaviour create a smoother transition between all viewing zones. The design also incorporates an adapted 3D object-space-model for growing children in ZEISS Single Vision SmartLife Young lenses.

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      Age Intelligence

      SmartLife® lenses by ZEISS consider the evolution of vision needs at every stage of the customer’s life and allows for the addition of age-related optimisation parameters:

      • ZEISS Luminance Design 2.0 technology – Takes average light conditions and the age-related pupil diameter of the wearer into account.  
      • ZEISS Dynamic AgeFit technology – for ZEISS Single Vision SmartLife Young lenses only. Designed according to growing children’s age-related facial anatomy.
      • ZEISS Intelligence Augmented Design (IAD) technology – this technology is used to optimise the lens to the wearer’s personal visual behaviour and requirements specifically for the range of ZEISS SmartLife Individual 3 lenses (available as single vision, digital and progressive lenses).
    • Icon showing three arrows next to each other symbolizing clear and thin optics.
      Clear and Thin Optics

      The ZEISS promise of precision and lens aesthetics with the best balance between optics and thin, light lenses.


    • 1

      External consumer acceptance test on the ZEISS SmartLife lens portfolio, n=182 study participants. Aston Optometry School, Aston University, UK, 2019. (unpublished, data on file)

    • 2

      Deloitte LLP. (2017). State of the smart - Consumer and business usage patterns. Global Mobile Consumer Survey 2017: UK Cut.

    • 3

      Auxier B. et al. Children’s engagement with digital devices, screen time. Pew Research Center. 2020.

    • 4

      Market consumer acceptance test on the ZEISS SmartLife Individual 3 lens portfolio, n=128 study participants in DE, CN, 2022, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH. (unpublished, data on file)