It was given its first major public showing in August of the same year at the Zap International Amateur tournament. In April 1997 a paintball publisher circulated a report from a testing facility claiming that the Extreme Vision goggles tested did not meet the ASTM standards in a number of areas. Some of the minor areas were the fact that the lens did not include a manufacturing date, and were too dark to not include a warning about use in low light conditions. The major area involved the goggles failing impact tests. This report, according to the publisher was commissioned after they had received reports of injuries from Extreme Vision 280 goggles which failed.
Leader maintains that their lenses have been impact safe all along.
At the Skyball tournament in Toronto Canada, Leader publicly demonstrated their impact testing apparatus - an enclosed box with a paintgun which pelts their lenses at 400 fps. As a part of their normal quality control procedures, random samples are tested from each batch of goggles produced, and if samples fail, the lots are destroyed. In response to the published test results, Leader immediately added the date stamp, and corrected the lens tint, to make sure they were in full compliance with the ASTM guidelines. To make sure that their goggles met the impact requirements, they backed up their in-house testing with independent lab testing. Brass Eagle, which is the exclusive distributor of the goggles also has commissioned review by an independent laboratory which has certified that the Extreme Vision 280 goggles, as presently manufactured do indeed conform to the ASTM standards.