They’re just regular (prescription) glasses. The sky looks normal through them. What’s the deal?

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Some coating on the glass is very faintly purple. Could be UV protection, anti glare, anti fog, etc.

    Glass itself is very faintly green, so it’s not the color of the glass, unless they are made out of some other material (something like polycarbonate or sapphire).

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    15 hours ago

    The anti-reflective (AR) coating can create blue or purple reflections from certain angles. The coating is meant to block some of the UV spectrum of light to help protect your peepers. It also prevents some of the reflections that would be annoying, hence the name.

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    13 hours ago

    Thank you, that is very interesting. They said they remembered being told at some point that there was a coating on the glasses.