About Ocutech®, Inc...

Ocutech Inc., founded in 1984, has become a worldwide-leader in developing innovative hi-quality bioptic telescopes for the visually impaired. With grant support totaling over $1.5 million from the National Eye Institute (NIH) and the Ontario (Canada) Ministry of Health, Ocutech bioptic systems have been carefully developed and studied and have been preferred 3 to1 in independent clinical trials. Ocutech VES-bioptic telescopes are used by thousands of visually impaired individuals throughout the world.

OCUTECH® Vision Enhancing Systems® (VES®)

The original Ocutech bioptic telescope, called the VES, was invented by Ocutech’s founding president, Russ Pekar, Ph.D., who is himself visually impaired. Dr. Pekar knows personally the needs and challenges faced daily by the visually impaired, and he is devoted to creating low vision aids that are effective, easy to use, attractive and comfortable to wear.

Ocutech is committed to the needs of the visually impaired and supports its products with generous warranties. Ocutech Low Vision Aids are available through doctors and clinics that specialize in low vision care throughout the world. We welcome your inquiries.

In 1996, Ocutech received worldwide attention when it created the first and only autofocusing bioptic telescope called the VES-AutoFocus. The VES-AutoFocus development project took over 6 years and almost $1 million to complete. Now, thousands throughout the world wear the VES-AutoFocus and experience the closest to normal magnified vision possible from a low vision aid.  Individuals who had never been successful with bioptic telescopes gained new-found freedom with the VES-AutoFocus.  “It changed my life” many have said.  In 1999 Ocutech received the prestigious WINSTON GORDON AWARD from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in honor of its innovative work to create the VES-AutoFocus.

If you are a low vision patient looking for a way to improve your ability to see the world around you, Ocutech’s bioptic telescopes may be the answer you’ve been seeking.

Low vision impacts almost everything a visually impaired person does. Seeing family from across the room, recognizing friends from a distance, seeing signs and packages in the grocery store, watching TV from a comfortable distance, and seeing the beauty in the world around you are all undermined from visual impairments such as macular degeneration. We’re sure you can add many additional visual activities that you miss because of low vision.

But, you shouldn’t let macular degeneration or other visual impairments leave you sitting around, isolated and depressed. Ocutech’s bioptic telescopes may help you to regain your visual connection to the world around you. Explore Ocutech’s website to learn how bioptic telescopes can help individuals with macular degeneration or other visual impairments accomplish things they thought they would never do again.

We invite you to take the next step in improving your vision today!