Actually to the contrary its to REMOVE options and clutter that you don't need :)
Its not only for laptops. Its for anyone who wants to avoid distractions and only see a streamlined view of the features they are actively working with. Lenses are an appropriate name. This is building on an adaptive UI paradigm which we may extend even further in the future. 

Hrm, again I'll need to see it to see it's usefulness. At the moment having all the options available works just fine for me (I think).
 
But, sounds like you need to sell this idea to the Reaper folks. They desperately need this solution! :-)
 

Anybody remember Layouts? I see a similarity to Lenses.  

One of the immediate advantages to me is removing Control Bar modules that aren't needed. That means I can have all the ones I need, and expand them to full size. As a side benefit it makes the Control Bar more touch-friendly.

I never used screenshots much. But I am using lenses....I find it much more useful. But I imagine it depends the way you work. For me, I like them.....

I think this will be really useful. 
While I love how the program is evolving, at times I've felt SONAR is starting to get a bit....scattered ( for lack of better word) with the functionality increases that are coming hard and fast. Unintended consequence is a UI sometimes has a lot of stuff I don't need, but I want to get to useful views faster than I currently can.
 
I think this addresses that issue ( actually better than screen sets).
 
One question: it seems my "Custom" module has defaulted to other configurations within the loaded Lenses.
Any way to retrieve my previous "Custom" module with the layout I had previously? I'm guessing the answer is that I need to build new ones that relate to my customized Lenses? ( if I'm getting the intended purpose here...)
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Actually to the contrary its to REMOVE options and clutter that you don't need :)
Its not only for laptops. Its for anyone who wants to avoid distractions and only see a streamlined view of the features they are actively working with. Lenses are an appropriate name. This is building on an adaptive UI paradigm which we may extend even further in the future. 

I think that this is a good development!  I would think that it could possibly extend to providing a distinct "Studio mode", a "Live Mode", and maybe others, such as a "Song Writers Mode", etc.
 
I recently noticed that a few of the forum members have bought the latest release of Sonar Home Studio for their laptops.  The perception of a simplified workspace, accompanied by the associated stability, is especially attractive for live performance. 
 
I have been hearing for years that Ableton Live is the only serious option for live performance.  Game on!!!

Anderton
One of the immediate advantages to me is removing Control Bar modules that aren't needed. That means I can have all the ones I need, and expand them to full size. As a side benefit it makes the Control Bar more touch-friendly.

 
If I'm not mistaken, this was already possible in previous versions. You could have just hidden those unnecessary modules via the right-click menu. But if you mean that we can now quickly show/hide CB modules by switching Lenses, I agree, it can be an advantage for some users.
 
The biggest benefit of Lenses for me so far is that I'll be able to easily restore my custom track control presets, track control order, Preferences Display settings, etc. (let alone the control bar layout) by just importing my custom lens when I clean install SONAR. I'm hoping that track icon settings and Track view's Display menu settings will also be covered by Lenses in a future update. 

Some of the features of lenses were available before but the only way of setting them was very laborious and required knowledge of custom track control manager and other display settings. I don't think most users even knew about the availability of some of these settings earlier. Also there was no way to hide features themselves.
Lenses provide a simple and convenient way to control a plethora of settings, features and layout via a single preset.

Just one example:
The workspace I would use for recording live sources with mics verses a session where I'm doing heavy editing/and or recording of midi parts would use a drastically different set of CB modules, track controls, Browser layouts, even choices in Custom module in Control Bar....that's where this feature really kills.
 
Once I started really thinking that through and setting custom Lenses up, it made me go back to my Screensets and refine what THEY do on a more "project by project" basis.
 
I think this was a much needed and brilliant call to integrate this!