Features

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.

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.

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.

Iridium Lens Coatings
Oakley Iridium lens coatings allow the wearer to tune transmission for any light condition. Superheated metallic oxides are fused to the lens at the molecular level, permanently bonding to create a uniform filtering layer that optimizes contrast and minimizes glare. Tuned to transmit from 9 to 92 percent of available light, the coatings are specifically formulated for optimal balance between reflection, transmission and absorption, depending on the targeted environment for usage.

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.

Polarization
Oakley's polarization technology surpasses industry standards for clarity, performance and durability. Common techniques of incorporating polarization films into lenses by lamination (using adhesive to sandwich the film between lens layers) and drop forming (sandwiching then heating and pressing over contoured forms) can cause haziness and optical distortion. Oakley uses an injection-molding process to infuse the lens material around the filter. This liquid fusion creates bonding at the molecular level, allowing the filter to achieve the highest possible level of performance.

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.

XYZ Optics
Oakley's patented XYZ Optics maintains clarity at all angles of vision, even at the periphery of wrapped, raked-back lens contours that maximize peripheral vision and side protection. In conventional eyewear, such extreme lens contours cause optical distortion due to the bending of light, called refraction. An object viewed through the periphery of an ordinary lens can appear slightly shifted from its true position in space. Unlike the two-dimensional correction of conventional eyewear lenses, XYZ Optics maintains correction in three dimensions to virtually eliminate this distortion.