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title: "News: EPIC's Online Technology Meeting on Freeform Optics for AR/VR - Optimax Systems, Inc"
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Apr 30, 2020

# EPIC’s Online Technology Meeting on Freeform Optics for AR/VR

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The market for AR devices is expected to reach over $100 billion in the next few years, but there are challenges these devices need to overcome. Freeforms offer an opportunity to address these challenges.

EPIC's Online Technology Meeting on Freeform Optics for AR/VR focuses on how to identify business opportunities in the design and manufacturing of freeforms.

Jessica DeGroote Nelson, Director of Technology & Strategy at Optimax, discusses rapid prototype freeform optics for AR/VR applications in this meeting.

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