What is Non-Glare, or Anti-Reflective Coating?
Often simply called AR coating, this product is one of the most useful coatings you can add to a pair of prescription glasses. It is applied to the front and back sides of the lenses in several layers. What Does Non-Glare Coating Do? A non-glare coating reduces glare and reflections that can occur with untreated plastic or glass lenses. It also makes your lenses appear invisible, so people looking at you can see your eyes clearly. Non-glare coatings can reduce eye strain and sharpen your vision, offering you less visual distraction. Common Sources of Glare Glare and annoying reflections are most common indoors during the day, and outdoors at night. Everyone knows how light from a window makes a television screen harder to see. Prescription glasses lenses in contact with any light source cause the same effect—haloes and distracting ghost images wherever you look. Overhead fluorescent lighting can cause square-shaped patches of light to appear on your lenses, blurring distant images. Com