Essilor teams up with Herezie for eSports; Eyezen-Challenge.com, the first eye-gaming experience

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Essilor, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today launches Eyezen-Challenge.com in association with Fnatic, world’s leading eSports team. This immersive digital gaming experience allows everyone to challenge a Fnatic eSports star, using only their eyes!

The principle is simple: with your eyes, challenge “League of Legends” (the most popular online game on the planet) star Rekkles. The duel takes the form of a classic “shoot ‘em up” game and brings it to a new level with a special twist: players use only their eyes. Cutting-edge eye-tracking technology allows players to neutralize targets and harmful blue-violet lights with precise eye movements.  Winners will have a chance to see Fnatic play live!

This experience was created to present a young audience with Essilor Group’s latest product, Eyezen. These lenses relieve and help protect the eyes with innovative Eyezen™ Focus technology, which filters out harmful blue light. Eyezen is designed for a connected life.

Andrea Stillacci, President and ECD of Herezie:

Essilor is a client at the forefront of technology, a pioneer in R&D. For the launch of their newest product, we brought a creative solution that allowed people to use their eyes to literally play with one of the issues: the harmful blue-violet light.

Alain Riveline, Global Marketing VP Essilor:

With more than 67 million players every month, and 27 million players per day, eSports offers us a great opportunity to create awareness among gamers, whether they wear glasses or not, on the impact of screens on their vision (…)We want to introduce them to Eyezen™ through an immersive experience linked to their daily habits which raises awareness about the importance of taking care for their eyes, especially in intensive screen usage.

Herezie is an independent and multidisciplinary agency, which was created in June 2010 by Andrea Stillacci, Luc Wise and Pierre Callegari. The Paris based agency is working for more than 30 clients, including international accounts such as Essilor, Unilever and The Coca-Cola Company.

 

Credits:

Essilor International: Mylène de Saint Pierre – Global Media & Communications Director, Marie Jarrousse – Brand Manager

Agency : Herezie-France

  • Executive Creative Director : Andrea Stillacci
  • Head of Digital : Stephan Schwarz
  • Art Director et Creative Technologist : Jacques Decazes
  • Copywriter : Nicolas Bermond, Jacques Decazes, Stephan Schwarz
  • Account Director : Julia Nguyen
  • Account Manager : Roxanne Matthews
  • Digital Production : Merci-Michel
  • 3D & post production : Merci-Michel
  • Music and Sound design: Apollo Studios
  • Réalisation « live action » : Marc Cortez