Innovative Eyewear was established to upgrade the world’s glasses, by producing fashionable and affordable prescription frames with Bluetooth features, enabling the wearer to both correct their vision and be connected with their digital life. Our team was the first to develop Bluetooth prescription glasses two years ago, and we continue to develop, manufacture and sell them around the world.

Innovative Eyewear's mission is to make a new generation of Bluetooth glasses, that are indistinguishable from high fashion eyewear in looks and price, and provide the ability to perform many smartphone functions using just your voice. We offer a unique combination of prescription, wearable utility, safer mobile computing, and fashion at a great price. Previously, under the Lucyd brand, our team was the first to deliver prescription Bluetooth eyewear, and one of the first to produce a line of Bluetooth eyewear in an expansive line of 10 fashionable patterns. 

Our team first entered the smart eyewear industry in 2017, when we founded Lucyd Ltd. We began conducting research projects into smart eyewear that year, and came out with our first product, the Lucyd Loud 1.0 glass, in 2018. Now in 2020, we have formed Innovative Eyewear Inc to begin expanding our business in the US. To help with this and consolidate our operations, we licensed our IP portfolio from Lucyd Ltd to Innovative Eyewear.

The number of devices with voice assistant capabilities has risen meteorically to 3.25 billion units, indicating a need for users to be able to more freely access voice AIs. Consumers are looking for tech-enhanced glasses, similar to the preference for smartwatches versus traditional timepieces, but few if any tech eyewear products exist which fully addresses the needs of prescription glass wearers while enabling smart functions and being affordable, comfortable for all-day wear, and attractive.

Having developed a dependence on smartphones for information, people constantly focus their attention on their screens, thus distracted from their surroundings. Pedestrian fatalities increased by 60% from 2009 to 2018, due in large part to the widespread use of smartphones by drivers and pedestrians alike. 

We have set out to enable eyeglass and sunglass wearers to interact with AI voice assistants and social media handsfree, thereby improving the safety and convenience of accessing digital information and apps. Our eyewear provides glasses and a bluetooth headset in one unit.

We are developing a new form factor for Bluetooth eyewear that looks like fashionable optical glasses, but also enables useful smart features when connected to your phone, smartwatch or computer. We’ve created a line of comfortable and affordable smartglasses that add tech capabilities without sacrificing anything from a typical eyewear experience. We are going to enhance those capabilities with an app called Vyrb, that will expand the power of voice assistants.

In March 2020, Innovative Eyewear, Inc. acquired the exclusive license to use the Lucyd IP, eShop and brand. Lucyd has developed and sold over 2,000 pairs of Bluetooth eyewear during the past three years, and launched three different product lines. We’ve secured a three-year brand ambassador contract with NFL star Richard Sherman to help build awareness for our product.

We have the exclusive license to four utility patent applications and seventeen design patents from Lucyd Ltd that we believe provide a strong competitive advantage in the tech eyewear space:

• A mobile application that provides methods for organizing and prioritizing wireless connections, including the flow of audiovisual information among multiple connected devices. 

• A mobile application called Vyrb™, which enables the user to engage with social media using their voice, and program specific keywords to activate data retrieval and other automated actions via their mobile device’s voice assistant

• Glasses-as-a-Service™ is made of two hardware patents that describe modular Bluetooth eyewear with user-replaceable frontplates, enabling the wearer to change the look and lens function at a low cost compared to buying a whole new smartglass.

• Design patents adding additional protections to our Loud Youth line and our Glasses-as-a-Service™ IP. 

• The current online market for eyewear is US $3.8B. Approximately eight million pairs of prescription eyeglasses were sold online in 2018.

• The market for digital assistants like Siri, Google Voice and Alexa have grown rapidly. There will be an estimated 8 billion digital voice assistants in use by 2023, up from the 2.5 billion assistants in use at the end of 2018.

• The wireless “hearables” market is projected to sell 230 million units in 2020. Sales of “Hearables” garnered $21.2 billion in 2018, and is estimated to reach $92.46 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 17.2% from 2019–2026.

While many companies offer some kind of tech eyewear, very few are suitable for extended wear and are delivered with corrective lenses, which are needed by ⅔ of the population. According to user reviews on Amazon, even fewer are of high quality, or are attractive enough for the fashion conscious buyer. None of our competitors currently offer voice control of social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter. Other smart eyewear products tend to lack touch controls or have imprecise control systems, whereas Lucyd frames have easy and reliable one-touch controls. For example, on Lucyd frames you can adjust volume, skip tracks, use your voice assistant and answer calls with a click.

*Lucyd.co charges $35 to add a basic prescription. Bose charges $126.

A leading competitor, Bose® Frames, is in another price category at nearly double the cost of our products, and in our view not as fashionable. The cost to add a prescription to a Bose frame is much more expensive at over $125 extra, while Lucyd frame prescriptions start at $35. The total cost of a Lucyd prescription frame is $155, compared to $326 for Bose. Their product is also in a larger sunglass form factor, while Innovative Eyewear is developing an optical line. Further, none of the competitors offer a proprietary voice-controlled app called Vyrb™ which allows you to listen and post to your social media programs using your voice, without looking at your phone. (Vyrb images are computer generated demo versions. Product is still currently under development.)

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Innovative Eyewear has two major sales channels, one being ecommerce via the Lucyd eShop, Amazon and Walmart.com, and the other being reseller outreach to retail eyewear and sporting goods establishments. Innovative Eyewear also offers two affiliate platforms for peer-driven sales.

Innovative Eyewear has two levels of margins, one for direct-to-consumer which is higher, and one for wholesale which is more competitive. Our frame margins are approximately 60% for direct-to-consumer and 38% wholesale. We have an average profit margin of 20% on custom and prescription lenses. 

As part of our mission to make smart eyewear accessible to the mass market, we are seeking to develop a complete line of Bluetooth eyewear for every size and style preference. When paired with the Vyrb app, Lucyd Eyewear will provide a new, safe and wearable user experience.

We believe that in 5 years, 20% of the online eyewear market will be Bluetooth-enabled frames. As a result of this expanding ecosystem that Innovative Eyewear is helping to pioneer, we are planning to earn a leadership position in the tech eyewear market under the Lucyd brand.

In addition to being passionate about tech eyewear, the Innovative Eyewear team has a significant background in technology and product commercialization. We are motivated to bring real value to our customers by delivering them a product that is not available from anyone else--smart eyewear in a lean and fashionable form factor, enhanced by cutting-edge mobile applications. 

Innovative Eyewear is well-positioned to develop the first mainstream smartglasses because our team has been in the space for years and understands from a personal and consumer perspective the market drivers for success in this emerging sector. Innovative Eyewear has licensed a large portfolio of IP for a young company, with exclusive rights to 20 pending patents (both design and utility) that create a technology moat in this sector. We are looking for investors to help us continue to push the technology and design of smartglasses forward to create a safer, more comfortable, and affordable experience for those looking to embrace innovation.  Help us bring about the future of eyewear. With your investment, we believe we can bring smart eyewear into a lightweight spectacles format suitable for everyone, and launch the exciting Vyrb social media app to bring the voices of the world together.