Transitions® Photochromic Lenses
When you step outside, it immediately begins to darken. The lenses help prevent harmful blue light from digital devices, screens, and sunlight to help reduce glare and prevent eye strain. They have the function of 100% UV blocking,anti-reflection treatment with blue light protection. They can constantly adapt to changing daylight conditions to reduce excess light and optimize color contrast and polarized light to prevent dazzle. They filter out excess light to provide maximum comfort. And provide high contrast and minimize glare. They provide increased color recognition and depth perception.
Costco Optical
Costco Optical is staffed by highly trained opticians and is well known in the Optical industry. The Optics division also stocks a wide variety of contact lenses, brand name frames, and sunglasses, and provides the latest high-definition lens technology. Costco now accepts most vision plans.
How about the optician center at Walmart?
Sixty-four percent of American adults wear prescription glasses, more than 157 million people. Since Walmart is the largest manufacturer of finished prescription glasses in the United States, the glasses are likely to come from Walmart. In reality, it's the only product they produce from start to finish. The ultimate goal of Walmart Glasses is to serve more customers faster and with better quality.
The optician center is not very big, but there are many kinds of glasses frames, and Walmart is the big backing, so the quality is relatively reliable. There are famous brands of lenses, a little more expensive, but certainly cheaper than the nearby optical stores. And you can pick and choose.
What to consider when buying eyeglasses?
Usually, people with lighter skin tones choose lighter color frames, while those with darker skin tones choose dark color frames. For example, people with lighter skin tones can choose soft pink frames, tortoiseshell frames, or gold and silver frames, while those with darker skin tones can choose red, black, or tortoiseshell frames.
What Are Glasses Without Prescription?
Nowadays, some people wear glasses not only just for correcting their vision, but also for fashion. However, for those people who do not have any eye conditions such as nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism, they can wear glasses without prescription.
Glasses without prescription, also called non-prescription glasses or clear lens glasses, work as a fashion statement to add style to your wardrobe. They also may serve a purpose if they have blue light blocking lenses.
Throughout the years, many people choose to wear glasses without prescription to improve their look. This trendy accessory is a reality available in a range of designs, colors and materials that can add just the right touch to your outfit.
It is important to note non-prescription glasses have zero corrective power whatsoever, while non-prescription reading glasses offer some level of magnification, enlarging what you see up-close.
The style of prescription glasses
Choose the material, and then choose the style. The width of the appropriate frame should match the distance between the two pupils to ensure that the eye can pass through the optical center when looking at things. Choose the right style according to your face shape. Generally follow the complementarity principle, such as choosing square frames for round faces and round frames for square faces. After choosing the frame, you should try it on for a while to see if the weight is appropriate and the style is suitable.
The design evolution of progressive lenses
Spherical and aspheric designs
The design of the front surface of the far-use area of the early progressive lens is similar to that of the ordinary spherical single vision lenses, so it is called a spherical progressive lens. Since 1974, the front surface of the far-use region of the lens is designed to be aspheric by designers, which not only reduces the peripheral aberration but makes the lens thinner, lighter, and less powerful.
Hard and soft design
For hard design, the channel is short, and the gradient is large. The near-use area position is high. The effective visual area of remote and near-use areas was larger. Peripheral astigmatism is relatively concentrated. Because surrounding astigmatism increases rapidly and the distribution is dense, the curve effect is more obvious. The gradient area is narrow. It is more difficult and takes longer for wearers to adapt.
Lenses with soft designs have slower gradients, longer gradients, and wider gradients. The angle of rotation of the eye from the far area to the near area is greater. It's easier to get used to. Compared with the hard design, the effective visual area of the far and near use areas is smaller, and the location of the near use area is lower.
Single, diverse, and individualized design
Initially, the progressive lenses used a single design, in which each basic curve was scaled equally and a luminosity combination was added within the range of its semi-finished lens blanks. The steepest base curve uses the same lens design as the flattest base curve. Lenses designers quickly realized that the overall performance of the lens could be improved by microcustomizing the lens design, leading to progressive lenses with multiple designs. This kind of design is called diverse design. By the mid-1990s, there was the emergence of individualized lens designs. In addition to using different gradients, these first individualized lens designs used steeper baseline curves with a slightly larger approach area to compensate for increased magnification and reduced field of view.
Symmetrical and asymmetric design
There is no difference between the left and right eyes in the symmetrical design of progressive lenses. As the eyes turn inward when they see near objects, the gradual gradient area gradually tilts to the nasal side from top to bottom, so the left/right progressive lenses should be rotated clockwise/counterclockwise respectively during processing. An asymptotic lens with left and right eye divisions is called an asymmetric design. The gradient is gradually and moderately inclined to the nasal side from top to bottom. The refractive force, astigmatism, and vertical prism of the two sides of the left and right gradient of the asymmetric design lenses are basically similar. At the same time, considering the characteristics of eye movement parameters in binocular vision, the peripheral aberrations of the corresponding positions of the left and right lenses were appropriately balanced to improve the visual effect of the wearer.
