Making time to catch the latest Netflix hit? Easy. Making time to visit the eye doctor? Surprisingly difficult. Enter: Online eye exams — because if you can do it from your couch, why wouldn’t you?

The Opternative exam is a bit different than sitting down in an eye doctor's office and squinting to read a chart of letters. First of all, the online test requires you to use both your smartphone, ...

Warby Parker has already made it easy to buy glasses online and at a lower price than traditional retailers. But people still need to see a doctor to get their prescription. With one startup’s plan to ...

Chicago-based Opternative, makers of a web and smartphone-based eye exam, has partnered with contact lens provider 1-800-Contacts to launch InstaRx, an online service that allows existing patients to ...

Results from smartphone-based Snellen charts, which are eye charts used to measure visual acuity, are not consistent with results from standard Snellen visual acuity chart tests, according to a study ...

I was about eight years old when I first got glasses. My mum had noticed me starting to shuffle ever closer towards the television, squinting at the screen, to watch Pokemon. I was reading Jacqueline ...

The concept has ignited a firestorm among optometrists. — -- Getting a prescription for eyeglasses and contact lenses usually means scheduling a trip to the eye doctor, but Chicago-based start-up ...