1895 Alois Mager founds the "A. Mager Spezialfabrik Ophthalmologischer Instrumente" at Chausseestraße 8 in Berlin.
1895 First products are: "Augenspiegel", "Javal-Ophtalmometer" and "Perimeterbogen nach Förster".
1922 Wilhelm Mager, Alois Mager’s son, joins the company and is managing director from 1924 to 1956.
1932 The company name is changed to OCULUS.
1932 The product range is extended with a "Sehprobenapparat" and the successful lorgnette "Aida".
1947 After the end of World War 2, OCULUS moves to West-Germany, to the "Optic Town" Wetzlar. Graduate engineer Kurt Kirchhübel joins the company as additional managing director, until 1986.
1957 Beginning of the cooperation with Universitäts-Augenklinik Tübingen.
1959 Introduction of the first "Tübinger Hand-Perimeter".
1960 Opening of the injection molding department. OCULUS trial lenses get a plastic frame.
1961 Introduction of the "Mesoptometer", which is still used as "Mesotest" for tests prior to the driving test.
1963 First rebuilding of a new office building at Wetzlar-Dutenhofen.
1976 OCULUS introduces the "Tübinger Perimeter Automat" at the IPS-Meeting in Tübingen, Germany. It is a science project, promoted by the BMFT (German Ministry of Research and Technology).
1980 The first TAP (Tübinger Automatik-Perimeter) is presented at the DOG in Kiel, Germany.
1981 Graduate engineer Rainer Kirchhübel becomes a member of the managing board.
1985 OCULUS concludes a contract with Nidek, manufacturer of ophthalmic devices in Japan, for exclusive marketing service and distributor rights in Germany.
1985 Presentation of the SDI®/BIOM® system for non-contact wide-angle observation for vitreoretinal surgery.
1989 OCULUS founds locations in Czechia, Slovakia and Poland.
1995 OCULUS celebrates the company’s 100th anniversary.
1995 The new Twinfield® perimeter is a premiere: For the first time static and kinetic perimetry is automatically and manually possible.
1999 The OCULUS Office for Marketing and Customer Service is founded in Seattle, USA: OCULUS, Inc.
2002 World premiere of the first automatically rotating 3D Scheimpflug camera, the Pentacam®. Until today one of the company’s flagships.
2005 The Pentacam® HR, equipped with an even higher resolution camera, is presented.
2006 Purchase of an additional company building. The marketing, optical assembly and synthetic assembly departments move in.
2007 PARK1® is officially introduced. A combined auto-refractometer and keratometer with pachymetry, which is honoured with the "Red Dot Award" for product design.
2008 OCULUS Asia Ltd in Hong Kong is founded.
2009 After a two years construction period, the new OCULUS headquarters are re-inaugurated.
2011 Premiere of the Corvis® ST at ESCRS, Vienna. A new non-contact tonometer in combination with an ultra-high-speed Scheimpflug camera can visualize the reaction of the cornea on an air impulse.
2011 OCULUS Iberia S.L. is founded in Spain.
2012 OCULUS Surgical, Inc. is founded in Florida, USA, for direct distribution of the SDI®/BIOM® system in North and South America.
2014 BIOM® ready, the world’s first single-use wide-angle viewing system is introduced.
2015 At OCULUS headquarters, extensive construction work to create a high-rack warehouse, expand the distribution area and provide additional space for research and development as well as for the service department, are completed.
2015 The new Pentacam® AXL is presented at the ESCRS in Barcelona.
2015 Graduate Economist Christian Kirchhübel joins the company as additional managing director.
2017 The OCULUS Universal Trial Frame celebrates its 100th birthday.
2017 OCULUS founds subsidiary OCULUS Canada Holding, Inc. in Langley.
2018 Founding of the subsidiary OCULUS Brasil Comercio Importação Exportação e Serviços de Equipamentos Médicos LTDA, based in São Paulo.
2019 World premieres of the devices Pentacam® AXL Wave and Myopia Master®.
2019 Founding of OCULUS Instruments Ltd in Birmingham, Great Britain, for direct distribution to retina specialists in UK and Ireland.
2020 OCULUS celebrates its 125th anniversary.

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