Fluidic glasses for correcting refractive errors of a human or animal

A method of using a hybrid fluidic lens for correcting refractive errors of a human or animal, the method comprising the steps of:

• objectively measuring the refractive power of the eye of the human or animal using an automated handheld objective refractometer and phoropter;
• providing a hybrid fluidic lens for correcting refractive errors of the human or animal, the hybrid fluidic lens including at least one flexible fluidic lens and a pinhole transitional lens;
• verifying the accuracy of the desired dioptric power of the hybrid fluidic lens using a standard lensometer;
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• correcting the refractive error of the desired dioptric power while the hybrid fluidic lens is under the lensometer to achieve the prescription power measured with an objective phoropter, fluidic lens, and Shack-Hartmann system;
• wherein the pinhole transitional lens comprises a solid plate disposed adjacent to a chamber of the at least one flexible fluidic lens, the solid plate comprising a light-sensitive pigment that changes color based upon the amount of light absorbed by the pinhole transitional lens;
• wherein the pinhole transitional lens comprises a central region that is free of the light-sensitive pigment, and a peripheral region surrounding the central region that contains the light-sensitive pigment so that the peripheral region becomes darker when activated by light, thereby producing the pinhole transitional lens where objects viewed through the central region of the pinhole transitional lens are in focus for the human or animal;
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• wherein the pinhole transitional lens is in a form of a Fresnel diffractive lens that includes multiple zones of prisms so as to provide a plurality of fixed diffractive plus zone focal points, the multiple zones of the Fresnel diffractive lens being for presbyopia correction of near vision of the human or animal, and the at least one flexible fluidic lens being for myopia correction of distance vision of the human or animal.