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Making corrective lenses more affordable
OptiOpia, Inc.
The Opportunity
Auto-Refractor Overview
Team
Status
April 1, 2011
Saul Griffith, Ph. D.
David Grosof, Ph.D., M.B.A.
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The World's #1 Vision Problem
"Uncorrected refractive error is the major
and most easily avoidable cause of vision loss"
- Brien A Holden
Confidential to OptiOpia
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Presentation to Jeffrey Epstein
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OptiOpia's Founding Strategy
Opportunity
500 Million to 1 Billion people need single vision
glasses and can pay $5 or more for good far vision
OptiOpia's Approach
Make vision screening and refraction easier
Lower the cost of delivering prescription lenses
Products
Low-cost auto-refractor
Desktop spectacle lens molder
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Neglected Global Demand for quality low cost eyeglasses
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4Bn
Don't
Need
Global Perspective - Possibility for Major Impact
500M - 1Bn
Need but
don't have
1Bn
Have
Source: World Health Organization. Brien Holden et al.
• 1Bn People Need
-Majority can afford
-$5 glasses
• $40Bn Existing Market
• >$75Bn Economic
Damage from
uncorrected refractive
error
• >150MM blind or
severely visually
impaired
• > 400 MM impaired by
presbyopia
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Two Sides to the Problem
1. Measure refractive error at low cost
Problem: • Scarcity of trained optometrists / ophthalmologists
• Lack of low cost, low skill, refraction device
Solution: • Automatic refraction requires little skill to operate
• Robust, low cost, accurate vision testing device
• Design for "minimal environment" without phoropter
2. Deliver corrective lenses at low cost
• High capital costs of equipment to fabricate lenses
• Skilled, trained technicians required to operate fabrication
equipment
• Capital tied up in large inventory of lens blanks at multiple
distribution layers
Solution: • Much less expensive equipment
• Low technical skill requirements
• Little / no inventory of blanks to carry
Problem:
Confidential to OptiOpia
April 1, 2011
Presentation to Jeffrey Epstein
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Current Auto-refractors
Today's auto-refractors (ARs) are for offices in US, EU, Japan
Almost all use virtual targets
Technician uses to help doctor prescribe more quickly &
accurately
Highly accurate - unless accommodation fluctuates
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Current Auto-refractors
Two Portable Models
Welch-Allyn SureSight ($5,000) is failing
Right Medical RetinoMax (ex-Nikon) is more expensive
(>1M Yen or $12,000)
Extensive research in US by NEI on value for screening
3-5 year-old children
Table-top models range in price, quality & after-market service
$6,000 to $15,000
The OptiOpia Auto-Refractor will be manufactured
for less than $200 COGS and priced for each region
$2,500 - $5,000 for US; < $1,000 for very poor regions
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OptiOpia Autorefractor - Additional Product Benefits
Fixed or Portable
Stabilize Accommodation with Familiar
& Interactive Targets
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Subjective Refraction
See-through feature
+
manual control of lens power =
subjective refraction capability
Streamlined refractive service delivery:
no need to reposition at phoropter station
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Special Product Benefits
Monocular Subjective Refraction
Capability
Phoropter not necessary for many
patients
Device is more powerful with more
skilled operator
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Children & Special Patients
Objective refraction (ARs &
retinoscopy) is necessary
method for
• young children (< 7)
• mentally disabled
• across a language
barrier
(And is a useful method for
routine refractive service on
all patients)
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OptiOpia Autorefractor - Key Product Benefits
Portable
Rugged
Accurate
Easy-to-Use
Low-Cost
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Presentation to Jeffrey Epstein
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Scheiner Double-Pinhole Principle
Two parallel beams of light intersect at a single retinal locus in emmetrope
and in ametropia at 2 loci with separation proportional to absolute value of ametropia
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Our approach is to Jancel the refractive error
with a variable-power optic
Three meridia suffice to measure astigmatism
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Variable Optic
Bement
Parent's
Eye
Low Cost Autorefractor - Design Features
Inexpensive <$200 COGS vs. current $5,000 - $15,000
• Mass-produced high-performance components
Lasers, CMOS imaging, Microprocessor
• Modern plastic optics manufacture
Special Variable Optic Lens (confidential)
Portable, Rugged & See-through - Compact Design
Easy to use - (features of competition)
Accurate - "See-through" feature
• increases stability of accommodation:
patient looks at real world and device
"auto-focuses" to correct prescription
• enables fine-tuning of prescription by trained
eyecare professional or technology-assisted vision
tester
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Autorefractor Specifications & Components
Specifications
Prescriptive Range: ±12 D sphere, 4D cylinder by nulling method; full range is TBD empirically
Portable (similar or less weight and volume than Retinomax)
Battery Powered
Compact & Potentially Supports a Wearable Design
Patient sees real target in examining room (10 degree linear field of view)
More stable accommodation achieved, thus addressing
the major source of error in objective refraction
Real target is superior for pediatric, anxious and naïve patients
Enables near-vision testing
However: cannot so easily be located in outer office suite
Components
Infrared illumination of retina (850 nm VCSEL laser)
4 favorable cost trends
CMOS imaging chip for fundus reflection
favorable cost trends
Simple optical design: 2 apertures, 4 lenses, 2 beam-splitters; only 2 moving parts
Embedded processor (not specified yet)
—> favorable cost trends
The special component:
The variable-power optic, which requires
Precision plastic molding
favorable cost trends
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Current Prototype
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Autorefractor specifications (routine)
Routine Specifications
Display screen for display of
external eye and alignment,
results and
settings
Touch pad and remote control, for fast easy subjective refraction
Thermal printer
Data port for office management systems, telemedicine prescriptions,
& lens molder
Carrying case
Confidential to OptiOpia
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OptiOpia - where are we 8c where are we going
From Auto-refractor Technology to Manufactured Product
Optical Design - completed, optimization under way
Motion Control of Variable Power Lens
several designs compared, built one now
manufacturable, patentable, compact, robust
Specialty lens fabrication -vendor identified
Image Processing - tools in place, building
<-
Now
Design and Testing of the "auto-focus" control in development
Model Eye testing
<-
Now
MILESTONE Limited human testing
Design for Manufacture and pre-production prototypes (contractor
identified)
Clinical Equivalence Testing
Regulatory Clearance, IP Defenses
"Clinical Rules Engine" because ametropia # best prescription
Field testing
Identifying influential, reputable partners for
field testing of pre-production auto-refractors
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OptiOpia - who are we & where are we going
The Company
Team Building
- Bruce Moore - NECO professor, pediatric optometrist,
internationally recognized clinical expertise; World Bank
- Dan Laser - entrepreneur, engineering PhD, CEO Wave80
Diagnostic
- Charles Campbell - expert on auto-refractors and
ophthalmic optic devices
- Engineers (mechanical and electronic)
Planning Market Entry - Strategy, Alliances & Research
- Opportunities identified and prioritized (more work to be
done; we were aided by former Sola executive)
- Product features analyzed
Confidential to OptiOpia
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OptiOpia Autorefractor - Key Product Benefits
Portable
Rugged
Accurate
Easy-to-Use
Low-Cost
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April 1, 2011
Presentation to Jeffrey Epstein
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Making primary eyecare more affordable:
OptiOpia
Opportunity
1 Billion people need single vision glasses and can pay >= $5
Approach
Lower the cost of vision screening and refraction
Lower the cost of glasses delivery
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xtra Slides Follow
The slides that follow this largely technical
presentation may answer questions you may have
about the team, market and technology.
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Market Segments
US, EU, Japan
Slow
Mature, Wealthy
Screening
NGO/Govts.
Diagnosis
Huge Need
Distribution Challenge
India, China, LDCs
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Autorefractor Operation
Nulling Mode
Patient is aligned,
Patient relaxes accommodation and fixates on distant target (+ power to force = "fogging")
Retina is illuminated with one of six pencils of near-infrared light
Retina is imaged and location of pencil of light back-scattered from retina is found
After up to six pencils are imaged, refractive state of eye plus variable lens is computed
Variable-power lens is repositioned to make eye+lens "emmetropic" and 6 loci coincident
Retinal imaging of 6 loci repeated
Converges to make Alvarez lens power = - 1* sphero-cylindrical ametropia*
* adjusted by factor for distance of Alvarez lens from cornea
Imaging Mode
Beyond the "nulling range" of ±12D sph/4D cyl, it is possible to compute ametropia from
changes in retinal loci of pencils as a function of the variable lens power.
TBD empirically in model and human eyes
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Molding Prototype v.III
Both lens surfaces cast on flexible molds
(top and bottom)
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Saul Griffith, PhD, Chairman & Advisor to President of OptiOpia
Education
Ph.D. (2004) MIT (Media Lab) Thesis: "Growing Machines"
Autonomously replicating robots & Programmable assembly (Advisor: Joe Jacobson)
M Sc. MIT (Media Lab) Micron and Sub-micron scale rapid prototyping.
Designed and developed novel 3-dimensional, multiple material, methods
and apparatus for processing nanocrystalline suspensions into electronically
functional devices.
M.E. (Mechanical Eng.) U. Sydney Fibre Composite Materials; Reprocessing materials
B.Met.E U. New South Wales Materials science (Metallurgy thesis)
Experience
2009 Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Foundation Capital
2009 Founder, Other Labs Developing supply and demand side energy solutions
2007 Co-Founder, OptiOpia, Inc.
2004-2007 Co-Founder, Makani Power, HowToons, Potenco, Instructables, Squid Labs
Honors
2007 MacArthur Fellow, 2007,
2003 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for invention
several others
Patents include issued US Patent for lens molder
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David Grosof, PhD, MBA Co-founder & President
Education
M.B.A. MIT. Focus on new venture development & finance.
Ph.D. Neurobiology. U. California, Berkeley. Electrophysiological, anatomical,
behavioral and modeling studies of biological processing of motion, color and form
A.B. Harvard University. History of technology & social change; Neurobiology
Experience
2007 Co-founder & President, OptiOpia
2006 Project Manager, Squid Labs
2001-2007 Business development consultant to life science based start-ups
2004 Co-founder, Theregen, Inc. (cell-based therapy for heart)
1997-9 Research Scientist, NASA. Retinal & ocular image processing.
1993-6 Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine
(St. Louis, Missouri). Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, clinical methods
Honors (selected)
National Research Council Senior Research Associateship, NASA Ames Res. Ctr.
NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NIH-National Eye Institute
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
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