Is there a more technical details of what the lens do? If he has some problem in the cones, no optical of digital processing can magically make it beautiful.
> “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That red, it’s just gorgeous. It’s incredible.”
Before buying one, I'd recommend to test it with red and green peppers/apples to see if they work as intended, but also with a lemon and an orange to see what happens with the intermediate colors.
We have these in Tennessee at some state parks. As a colorblind person, I don't really know what I'm missing out on so I'm very much looking forward to trying them out when the leaves change this Fall!
Since I'm yellow/blue blind in one eye, but not both, it would be really interesting to try these lenses since I would be able to describe the way things look from both colour blind and "normal" vision.
Also, I read that they haven't really tested these glasses with yellow/blue blind folks (red/green blindness is far more common) to know if it is all that useful for them.
I am very curious about this. Which color do you see when you look at yellow and which when you look at blue? And do the other colors look the same as with your other eye?
It depends on what kind of yellow. Dark yellow can look tan or even pinkish. Light yellow is white. I can't see yellow highlighter at all unless the light is making it glow - then it just looks shinier than the surroundings. Light blue is generally cyan, and otherwise it is pretty much black. I actually quite like "lego blue" or "versace blue" because they look so extremely different between each eye.
The colour that surprises people most is that blue and green both look the same, and by "same" I mean they both look like cyan - pretty much an entirely different colour. At night time, the blue light on the buses and the green traffic lights are exactly the same colour of cyan to my left eye. They're the normal blue and green to my right eye.
Only some colours "agree" between both eyes. For example, the HN logo is very close to the same colour. Only I can tell it is orange with the right eye. It looks simply darker (and therefore browner) with the left. And red looks like red. That one we can pretty much all agree on.
It was my art teacher who pointed it out in grade 9. I always just thought it was normal and never put thought to how different each eye colour was.
My dominant eye* is the colour blind one, so it affects the way I paint things unless I actively remember to match what I see in my right eye only. And even then my colours tend to be wonky because I'm just used to seeing things this way. I get made fun of my colour labeling often enough - especially when I comment on the colour of food items. Like both orange and purple are different shades of brown. Purple looks richer, like chocolate, though. Orange is more like clay.
* To tell which eye is your dominant one: with both eyes open, stretch your arm out and point at something. Without moving, close one eye, then switch. Only one eye will be lined between your finger and the pointed-to object. That's your dominant eye. The other is used for context and 3D resolution.
I'm colorblind and have to call bullshit on all the people crying because they "saw red" for the first time. Try out "color vision" on your computer with a software-based screen filter that shifts the color intensities first before you buy these glasses. Now they've even tricked the government into it.
I thought they had colour pallets that are appropriate for various blindnesses (ex: for yellow/blue blind folks, green, blue and cyan are all the same colour, so you wouldn't use more than one of that set of colours in any given pallet).
I don't need that since I see fairly normal colour in the other eye, and so I have an immediate "converter" to see what the visual difference is between yellow/blue blindness and normal vision. I literally don't even notice unless my right eye vision is blocked. I see a properly coloured world as long as both eyes (or my right eye alone) are seeing it.
I don't think the OS/X and Windows things are emulating what the glasses do. The glasses are filtering out overlapping colour frequencies (as seen by the eye's cones) so the R G and B are more distinct. That's completely different. This is limiting the noise, versus changing the whole colour pallet.
Interestingly images altered to look like yellow/blue blindness look the same to both my eyes, so I'd say they're pretty accurate. There are some small discrepancies, but very few in most that I've seen. I actually find that a little jarring because of course my right eye protests this invasion of missing colours.
Those do not work for everyone. I bought some glasses from this company for my father, both he and a colorblind colleague could not see any improvement apart from a slight contrast increase after a few hours of wearing them. One of them was slightly red-green colorblind, the other one had a much stronger red-green color blindness.
The company seem to exaggerate a lot the effect of their lenses with carefully selected overenthusiastic testimonies.
The good thing is that the glasses could be returned and refunded.
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Before buying one, I'd recommend to test it with red and green peppers/apples to see if they work as intended, but also with a lemon and an orange to see what happens with the intermediate colors.
Also, I read that they haven't really tested these glasses with yellow/blue blind folks (red/green blindness is far more common) to know if it is all that useful for them.
The colour that surprises people most is that blue and green both look the same, and by "same" I mean they both look like cyan - pretty much an entirely different colour. At night time, the blue light on the buses and the green traffic lights are exactly the same colour of cyan to my left eye. They're the normal blue and green to my right eye.
Only some colours "agree" between both eyes. For example, the HN logo is very close to the same colour. Only I can tell it is orange with the right eye. It looks simply darker (and therefore browner) with the left. And red looks like red. That one we can pretty much all agree on.
My dominant eye* is the colour blind one, so it affects the way I paint things unless I actively remember to match what I see in my right eye only. And even then my colours tend to be wonky because I'm just used to seeing things this way. I get made fun of my colour labeling often enough - especially when I comment on the colour of food items. Like both orange and purple are different shades of brown. Purple looks richer, like chocolate, though. Orange is more like clay.
* To tell which eye is your dominant one: with both eyes open, stretch your arm out and point at something. Without moving, close one eye, then switch. Only one eye will be lined between your finger and the pointed-to object. That's your dominant eye. The other is used for context and 3D resolution.
I'm colour blind in one eye only. For that reason, I quite want to try them out to see what exactly the lenses do to change the appearance.
I don't need that since I see fairly normal colour in the other eye, and so I have an immediate "converter" to see what the visual difference is between yellow/blue blindness and normal vision. I literally don't even notice unless my right eye vision is blocked. I see a properly coloured world as long as both eyes (or my right eye alone) are seeing it.
I don't think the OS/X and Windows things are emulating what the glasses do. The glasses are filtering out overlapping colour frequencies (as seen by the eye's cones) so the R G and B are more distinct. That's completely different. This is limiting the noise, versus changing the whole colour pallet.
Interestingly images altered to look like yellow/blue blindness look the same to both my eyes, so I'd say they're pretty accurate. There are some small discrepancies, but very few in most that I've seen. I actually find that a little jarring because of course my right eye protests this invasion of missing colours.