Our Story
Built from a flicker of candlelight, backed by two years of science.
Screens ask more of our eyes than they were built to give. Eye Star Vision exists to give them something back — a few guided minutes a day, off-screen. This is the story of how it came to be.
The Idea
It started with a candle and a Christmas ornament.
The idea for Eye Star Vision came about on Christmas Eve, in a very ordinary moment. Watching a decorative angel ornament spin gently under the heat of a candle flame, founder Jānis Zandbergs noticed something: following its movement, and the light reflections it sent across the walls, created a kind of tonus in his eyes — thoroughly moving and exercising them.
That evening, the idea took hold: a device built specifically to relax and strengthen the eye muscles, the same way a workout strengthens the body. He got to work that very night.
The People
A sharpshooter and a businessman walk into a workshop.
Eye Star Vision is built by a small Latvian team that grew from an idea into roughly ten people, working out of a production lab in Kandava and expanding into a new facility in Riga.
Jānis Zandbergs
Founder & Chairman of the Board
The idea for Eye Star Vision was his — sparked on a Christmas Eve watching candlelight move across a room. An active shooting-sports competitor himself, he saw potential in the device beyond everyday screen fatigue: precise, guided vision training for specific tasks and disciplines.
Jānis Markulis
Business Co-Owner
A businessman who saw the potential in the idea early and joined as a co-owner, helping steer Eye Star Vision from a first prototype toward a real, investable company.
The Research
Two years, two universities, one methodology.
Turning that Christmas Eve idea into a real device took contract research with the University of Latvia's Department of Optometry and Vision Science and the Information Systems Management Institute (ISMA), with an early feasibility study also carried out alongside Riga Technical University.
That research ran for two years, backed by the European Regional Development Fund, and shaped the stimulus parameters and guided-movement patterns built into the device today. Its mechanism is now protected by patents in multiple countries, with two scientific articles prepared for publication.
For the full research numbers — study size, results, and the project's official history — see Clinical & Science Experts and our Newsroom.
Where We're Going
We want to put Latvia on the map.
Eye Star Vision is built to reach people two ways: directly, as a device individuals use at home, and through cooperation with the institutions and organizations — kindergartens, rehabilitation centers, and training environments — that bring guided vision work to the people they serve every day.
Starting here in Latvia, that's the direction we're growing in.