Cabinet glare

[joecitizen]

My cocktail cab has tempered, clear glass.   What is the best way to improve the appearance of the game during daylight hours?  The sun shining onto the glass makes it rather difficult to play.

Would getting smoked glass have the same effect as cutting out a piece of tinted film?  I've seen some comments on here that say it's not worth trying to fight the room lighting, but wondered if anyone has some moderate success with it.

I'd rather not move the cabinet from it's current home, even though the room is fairly bright (even with the curtains we have in there).

[Apollo]

pull the blind

hope this helps

[spacies]

Or throw a thick blanket over you and the machine and 'game' in perfect darkness.

Hope that helps too.

[MYX]

Or throw a thick blanket over you and the machine and 'game' in perfect darkness.

Hope that helps too.

right but if you start to get dizzy or start hearing voices in your head... you should probably come out though.

[tommy]

It won't matter what shade of glass you have, clear, grey, bronze, the light will give you a mirror look on your glass no matter what.

Removing the light is the only thing you can do.

[joecitizen]

Thanks tommy... that's what I kind of figured.

Thanks for the snark too, guys, but it's in a restaurant so can't really keep shades shut or hold a blanket for everyone who wants to play it. 

[spacies]

It would probably be worse if it was tinted glass.

I wouldn't trust patrons 'playing' under a blanket either, lol.

[Numbski]

There might be another option.

There's some coating that gets placed on eyeglasses lately to completely (or nearlY) get rid of glare.  Have a look for the stuff.  The pricetag might be steep, but you won't know without looking.

[SavannahLion]

There might be another option.

There's some coating that gets placed on eyeglasses lately to completely (or nearlY) get rid of glare.  Have a look for the stuff.  The pricetag might be steep, but you won't know without looking.

It's on Amazon, or at least something similar. The brand they sell is "Glare Buster" but I'm positive it's sold under a different name. My father tried it once, he didn't like it at all. I guess the principle is pretty basic and that's the drawback. The stuff adds a coating to the glass, essentially dull clear coat (as in paint). Apparently it works fine, but it tends to blur things just a tad bit. For someone wearing glasses, that's unnacceptable. For an arcade machine, maybe it would make it more authentic?

Laptop screens have a kind of anti-glare coating that doesn't blur the image. Not sure where anyone can get a clear laptop-like piece of material big enough to cover a cabinet glass. Did a little bit of digging and there's something called Duralan II but that ---Cleveland steamer--- looks like it's only available to wholesalers and at custom sizes 
Maybe try junk electronic stores to see if they have any in stock. Or find a glass shop that can coat the glass for you. When I worked at Home Depot, anti-glare coatings are options on most windows and shower doors (why shower doors need anti-glare coatings is beyond me), maybe a window shop might have a solution.

[joecitizen]

I actually got those coated lenses for my eyeglasses.  The trademark is Crizal - it cost $75 and they seem to always get smudged.  In retrospect, not really worth it for eyeglasses.

But it's a good idea; if there was a cheap version of something like that, that might do the trick.  I'll do some research in to this - thanks guys.

[tommy]

Glass is glass no matter what you do to it, it will reflect light by nature. Maybe changing the angel it's at in reguards to the light source might help a bit.

[btp2k2]

what would an angel know about it? 

[tommy]

what would an angel know about it? 

I was just in the PnR section and had gods angels on the brain. 

I wonder what angle god would point his cab at in his house, whatever way that is, it's the right way i can tell you that much. 

[fjl]

Perhaps make the marquee glass easily removable just for day time play. Hmm, something I just might look into...

But knowing me, I'll end up dropping the glass.