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Frame Composition
Engineering breakthroughs in structural materials allow Oakley to produce lightweight, high-performance eyewear frames that maintain superior protection and comfort. The polymers in O Matter frames are formulated for high durability, as well as controlled flexibility for improved safety during impact. To produce the ultra-strong, ultra-lightweight chassis of Oakley Wire frames, five metallic compounds are fused into a single C-5 alloy. Both frame materials maintain resistance to ultraviolet radiation, humidity, thermal shock and chemical exposure.
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Comfort and Fit
Oakley frames are engineered to maintain a comfortable, secure fit. The company's patented Three-Point Fit ensures that each frame makes contact only at the bridge of the nose and behind the temples. This retains optics in perfect alignment and eliminates the discomfort of ordinary frames that hook the ears and mount with unbalanced pressure points. Some earstems are sheathed in Unobtainium, an Oakley innovation that actually increases grip with perspiration.
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Impact Protection
The lens materials and frame geometries of Oakley eyewear provide unsurpassed protection against high-velocity and high mass impact. For high-velocity impact testing, a quarter-inch steel shot is blasted from a pneumatic cannon at 102 mph. The high-mass impact test uses a metal spike (more than a pound of weight) dropped from over four feet. The unique combination of wrapped, raked-back lens geometries and durable Plutonite lens material allows Oakley eyewear to exceed the standards of these impact tests, established by the American National Standards Institute.
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Plutonite Lens Material
Proprietary geometries, high-performance materials and state-of-the-art design and production techniques allow Oakley to create eyewear that maintains optical correction for lens astigmatism, refractive power, optical clarity, prismatic power and prismatic imbalance. These five test categories are part of ANSI Z87.1, a comparative measure of optical performance established by the American National Standards Institute. Oakley eyewear not only meets but also exceeds ANSI Z87.1 standards.
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Polaric Ellipsoid Lens Geometry
Just as XYZ Optics maintains peripheral clarity in dual-lens eyewear frames, Oakley's Polaric Ellipsoid geometry minimizes optical distortion in single-lens eyewear. The patented geometry achieves precise orientation between the human eye and each point along the curvature of the lens. It allows Oakley to produce single-lens sports shields that maximize peripheral clarity while providing protection against sun, wind and side impact.
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UV Protection
Oakley eyewear provides unbeatable protection against the damaging rays of ultraviolet radiation. Oakley's Plutonite lens material inherently blocks 100% of all UVA, UV, UVC and harmful blue light. The protection is formulated into the lens material, as opposed to a thin surface film that can become scratched, leaving dilated pupils exposed to ultraviolet leaks. Shielding has nothing to do with the darkness or color of the lens, so even clear Oakley lenses provide full protection. The wrapped, raked-back architecture of Oakley eyewear provide further protection by blocking UV from the periphery.