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Paving the Way for a Clear View on Extended Realities

As a ZEISS Venture Company, tooz executes its mission by providing vision correction, prescription optics, and eye health solutions for all kinds of realities.
About us

For over a decade, the tooz team has dedicated itself to perfecting its core technologies that ensure a clear view on the world – including Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Extended Reality.

Our Mission

We believe in the future all
glasses will be smart while still need to maintain their primary purpose of providing a clear view.

To meet this key customers'
need, tooz offers a variety of optical solutions tailored to the individual's vision correction.

About us

Paving the Way for a Clear View on Extended Realities

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Experienced Manufacturer

tooz has a clear focus on designing, engineering, and manufacturing of waveguides, combiners, lightguides, and special lenses with a medical grade vision correction to serve AR, VR, and XR device manufacturers with customized optical solutions to enable vision correction according to international regulatory standards.

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Premium Partner

As a spin-off of ZEISS AG, tooz' unique design and engineering competencies are underpinned by decades of research, development, and mass manufacturing experience in the field of high-end optical and correction lenses.

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Medically Compliant

tooz is the first solution provider for Smart Glasses, AR, VR, and XR optical solutions fulfilling the ISO 13485 standards. tooz meets medical device class I requirements for all regional regulatory approvals of prescription lenses worldwide.

Our Story

From Vision to Reality

tooz technologies GmbH, founded in 2018 as a spin-off of ZEISS, is a B2B engineering and licensing company. With the mission to upgrade everyday prescription glasses with digital screens, we develop optical systems and solutions for smart glasses with and without prescription.

2023

tooz is back home as a ZEISS Venture Company focusing on optical correction systems for digital glasses and devices.

2022

tooz ESSNZ Berlin are the first Smart Glasses providing individualized correction in a curved waveguide in compliance with medical standards.

2021

The tooz pilot lab in Germany is inaugurated.

2020

tooz launches its Developer Kit “tooz DevKit” in China, followed by the EU and USA

2019

Ten years later, tooz applies for its 150th patent.

2018

Deutsche Telekom & ZEISS form tooz technologies GmbH to develop smart glasses for the consumer market.

2017

Deutsche Telekom & ZEISS announce their collaboration at MWC in Barcelona.

2016

ZEISS Smart Optics GmbH presents the first waveguide at CES in Las Vegas.

2015

ZEISS Smart Optics GmbH is founded.

2009

Founding patents of the technology platform are filed from ZEISS corporate research.

2024

tooz is the first player in the market providing prescription solutions for all kinds of Smart Glasses, AR, VR, and XR devices — agnostic to any types of waveguide, lightguide, or optical solution.

The smart glasses technology by tooz unleashes a variety of new use cases across industries, in the health sector and for end consumers in everyday life. We are continuously innovating our optical engineering and smart glasses technology at our headquarters and pilot lab in Aalen, Germany.