Revision I-Vis Technology Revolutionises Ballistic Eyewear

Revision Military’s I-Vis lens technology provides improved visual performance and is setting new standards for colour-enhanced ballistic eye protection, the company announced on 18 October.

I-Vis is an advanced dye formulation process, resulting in a new series of lens tints that markedly enhance visual performance, while providing state-of-the-art ballistic eye protection. Traditional, monochromatic lens tints that enhance contrast do so by imparting a colour cast that significantly reduces colour accuracy and causes eye fatigue. This is why colour-critical users resort to basic smoke-tinted lenses that offer no performance benefit, aside from light reduction. Conversely, tints developed using I-Vis technology are colour-neutral and provide enhanced colour accuracy, reduced eye fatigue, increased depth perception, and greater visual detail.

“Our new I-Vis technology provides wearers of ballistic eye protection the most accurate view of the world around them. I-Vis lenses increase the separation of colours so that when you’re wearing them, you’ll see multiple shades of a colour, compared to the single shade you’d see with the naked eye or when using traditional lens tints,” explains Revision CEO Amy Coyne. “The result is greater awareness and faster reaction times. In a military setting, this translates into greater survivability and lethality.”

I-Vis complements the company’s industry-leading OcuMax lens coating, which provides an optimal combination of anti-scratch coating on the outside of the lens and anti-fog coatings on the inside. OcuMax provides over 10 times the level of anti-fog protection offered by competing products.

More than a single solution, I-Vis lenses are available in six tints, each optimised for use in a different environment. Using the power of AI, Revision accounted for theatre-specific colour vision variables that take into account the colour palette of locations, while modelling the most likely lighting conditions to occur in that area, using global data from NOAA.

The result is a suite of lenses, each providing the best observational experience for a given environment, without compromise. The suite features mil-spec eye protection with separate tints optimised for key areas of military operation around the globe. Each tint is designed to increase contrast and elevate colour recognition in specific geographic regions, doing so without the negative effects associated with traditional monochromatic lens tints.

Verso: the most technically complex lens, designed to thrive in the widest range of environments and settings, it excels at separating colours, expanding the volume of colour visible to the wearer in many environments. If you’re unsure of the mission profile, this is the lens to use. (VLT: 19%*);

Aros: enhances typical desert environment colours, bringing out differences between similar shades of brown, tan, yellow, and orange, while making man-made objects stand out. (VLT: 12%*);

Cano: modelled to provide colour definition in an environment dominated by greens, browns, and grays. Visual light transmission is maximised for this lens, since operations will be conducted in densely forested areas where the canopy heavily shades the terrain. Man-made structures will stand out, as will differences in the foreground landscape. (VLT: 37%*);

Alto: suited to dry, high-altitude environments dominated by grays, tans, and blues, such as those found in northern Afghanistan. This lens brings out differences in prevalent landscape colours, to help troops read terrain and notice man-made structures, roads, and people. (VLT: 12%*);

Clara: brings out colour definition and contrast in brightly-lit areas of white, gray, and blue found in snowy wooded areas, rocks, and mountains. It is modelled for use in northern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltics, and Poland. This lens will help the wearer better see the undulations of snowpack, identify recently covered tracks, estimate distances, and makes man-made structures, vehicles, and people stand out. (VLT: 12%*);

Umbra: designed to bring out colour contrast in overcast, snow-covered scenes that are dominated by whites and grays found in snowy wooded areas, rocks, and mountains. It is modelled for use in northern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltics, and Poland. This lens will help the wearer better see the undulations of snowpack, identify recently covered tracks, estimate distances, and makes man-made structures, vehicles, and people stand out. (VLT: 48%*).

Note: *VLT may vary +/- 5% based upon eyewear form factor, lens thickness and coatings.

I-Vis technology is currently available in Revision’s StingerHawk and SnowHawk ballistic eyewear.