From Fighter Jet Cockpits to Your Patients' Faces: Everysight's BEAM™ Technology Is Rewriting the Rules of Smartglasses
Israeli tech company Everysight is pushing the boundaries of what a pair of glasses can do and the implications for every optometrist, optical dispenser, and eyewear professional across Australia are profound. At the heart of their innovation is BEAM™, a proprietary display system that projects data directly onto the lens itself, rather than attaching a screen to the frame as early products like Google Glass attempted.
The BEAM™ system encompasses a compact free-space off-axis optical system powered by an ultrabright colour Micro-OLED imager, delivering a high-contrast, wide field-of-view display in all lighting conditions. The result is an overlay of real-time information that sits within the wearer's natural field of vision without obscuring it, a distinction that matters enormously in a clinical context.
Defence-Grade Engineering Meets Everyday Eyewear
Everysight's credentials are not those of a typical consumer electronics startup. The company was founded as a spinoff of Elbit Systems, the world's leading developer of fighter jet helmet-mounted display and vision systems, and its engineering team spent years perfecting augmented reality for military pilots before turning that expertise towards everyday eyewear.
That defence pedigree shows up in the specs. According to the company, the system delivers over 30 pixels per degree, fields of view starting from 20 degrees and upward, brightness exceeding 1,000 nits to the eye for clear visibility in direct sunlight, and optical efficiency more than 20 times greater than competing waveguide solutions, all while adding less than 3 grams per channel to standard eyewear weight.
Prescription Compatibility and All-Day Wearability
For eyewear professionals, one of the most clinically relevant aspects of the platform is its prescription compatibility. The system supports both Rx add-on and embedded solutions, meaning patients with short-sightedness, astigmatism, or presbyopia are not excluded from the technology. The Maverick smart glasses combine this advanced display technology with a lightweight ergonomic frame weighing only 43 grams, designed to last 10 hours with the display active.
Power management is central to the platform's design, with dynamic power scaling, intelligent sleep modes, and low-power display technologies working together to prolong battery life throughout extended use.
MIDO Exclusive: Licensing Could Transform the Industry
Perhaps the most consequential revelation for the broader industry came from a conversation on the trade show floor at MIDO in Milan, the world's premier international eyewear exhibition. Speaking exclusively to EyeSmart, David McLauchlan, Everysight's Australian CEO, confirmed that the BEAM™ technology is available to be licensed by other smartglasses manufacturers.
"The technology can be licensed," he told us. "We're open to working with other producers who want to bring this optical system into their own product lines."
It is a statement with far-reaching implications. If BEAM™ is adopted across the industry, the optical quality and prescription compatibility standards it introduces could become the new baseline expectation for smartglasses, meaning Australian eyewear professionals may soon be fielding patient enquiries not about one product, but about an entire generation of devices built on the same underlying architecture.
