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Iconic colors
Gray, Brown, Graphite Green

Signature Colors
Ruby, Sapphire, Amethyst,
Amber, Emerald

Fully clear indoors

Darkens outdoors in seconds[1]

Blocks 100% UVA & UVB rays.

Filters up to 32% of blue-violet light indoors and up to 85% outdoors 2[2]

Returns clear faster than ever
XTRActive new generation
Gray, Brown, Graphite Green

XTRActive Mirrors
Mirrors: Gold, Silver Shadow,
Pink, Red, Green, Blue[***]

Clear with a hint of protective tint indoors

Dark in hot
temperatures [3]

Blocks 100% UVA & UVB

Help protect from UV and filter blue-violet light [4]
driving

Darkens in the car [5]
XTRActive Polarized
Gray

Clear with a hint of protective tint indoors

Activates in the car[6]

Blocks 100% UVA & UVB

Help protect from UV and filter blue-violet light [7]
polarization

Less glare up to 90% Polarization efficiency[8]
Drivewear
Olive Green to Copper to
Dark Red-Brown
house

Tinted not recommended for indoor

Activates in the car

Blocks 100% UVA & UVB
polarization



Always polarized


Check with your lens supplier for remaining availability for Transitions® GEN 8™ lenses.

* The darkest in hot temperatures & in the car, blocking 100% UVA & UVB and offering the best overall blue-violet filtration across light situations​​* among clear to extra dark photochromic lenses. *Filtering blue-violet (between 400 and 455nm ISO TR 20772:2018) among polycarbonate and CR39 gray lenses with a premium anti-reflective coating: filtering (i) up to 45% indoors at 23°C, (ii) up to 64% behind the windshield, (iii) up to 86% outdoors at 23°C and (iv) up to 83% outdoors at 35°C.

** EcoOptics Limited - Prof. Nicholas Roberts, Quantitative study evaluating the visual benefits of the polarization properties of lenses compared to similar non-polarized lenses, 2019/2020.

*** Style Mirrors are available where gray and brown Transitions® XTRActive® are available. Specify Transitions lenses in style mirrors (no substitutions) with your lab to ensure authenticity.

[1] For polycarbonate & CR39 lenses across colors achieving 18% transmission at 23°C.

[2] For polycarbonate and CR39 lenses across colors. Blue-violet light ismeasured between 400nm and 455nm (ISO TR 20772:2018)

[3] Clear to extra dark photochromic category. Polycarbonate and 1.5 gray lenses tested at 35°C achieving <18%T using Transitions Optical's standard testing method


[4] Transitions® XTRActive® filters up to 45% of blue-violet light indoors and up to 86% of blue-violet light outdoors. Tests performed on gray lenses with a premium anti -reflective coating. Blue-violet light is between 400 and 455nm (ISO TR 20772:2018).


[5] Clear to extra dark photochromic category. Polycarbonate and 1.5 gray lenses tested at 23°C behind the windshield achieving between 18%T and 43%T.


[6] Based on tests across materials on gray lenses, achieving transmission below 45% @ 23°C behind a standard windshield. The lens achieves a polarization efficiency of 30% behind the windshield, which is not classified as being "polarized."


[7] Transitions® XTRActive® Polarized filters up to 45% of blue-violet light indoors and up to 90% of blue-violet light outdoors. Tests performed on gray lenses with a premium antireflective coating.


[8] Based on tests across materials on gray lenses @ 23°C, using ISO 12312-1 standard.