Founded in 2014 by two doctors, 6over6 developed apps to enable vision tests for eyeglass or contact lens prescriptions.

What if reading glasses could be made obsolete using a mobile eye-training game over a period of three months? This may sound like a ridiculous proposition, but it's the way GlassesOff is training 40-60 year-olds to ditch their reading glasses for good.

For many people, the simple task of reading a street sign or a restaurant menu is impossible due to visual impairment. Israeli startup OrCam is using sophisticated artificial intelligence to give these people a solution.

Lumus, an Israeli company, specializes in what it calls Light-guide Optical Element (LOE) technology. Its latest product is the PD-18-2, which may look to the untrained eye like a cumbersome pair of sunglasses. But inside the lenses of the glasses, the user can see high-quality full color images.

A new monofocal lens now being developed in Israel could solve the problems experienced by people wearing bifocal and multifocal glasses.