Anti-reflective coating is a development to enhance and improve the lens performance
by eliminating reflected light and allows more light to transmit through the lenses. Anti-reflective or anti-glare coating is composed of multiple layers of metal oxide applied to the front and back surface of the lenses once the lenses are treated with anti-scratch or hard coating. Once the lenses are treated with anti-reflective coating the lenses will have a greenish or bluish color which is prominent when you look at the lenses under fluorescent light or at certain angles.
Anti-reflective coating not only improves vision through the lenses but also improves the appearance of the lenses. Anti-reflective coating reduces both internal and external reflection from the lenses and thus it makes the lenses look thinner and the onlookers can clearly see you eyes. If you are using rimless glasses with anti-reflective coating on the lenses the glasses looks almost invisible.
As per the vision aspect anti-reflective coating reduces reflective light which cuts down glare and improves the quality of vision at night and when using computers at certain environment. Research show that using anti-reflective coating can help you at night driving as the coating helps eliminate glare from the head light and tail light of cars thus offers clearer vision.
Anti-reflective coating is beneficial for all and thus is recommended that you should use glasses with anti-reflective coating. The only drawback of these coating is that the scratches on the lenses are clearly visible as anti-reflective coating eliminates light reflections that can mask lens surface defects. Thus it is recommended that you do not clean the lenses dry it is advisable that you should dampen the lens surface before cleaning the glasses.