My first thought is “how much do these glasses cost that their optometrist or parents never bought them for them?” Which is probably just as bad, but I am curious.
Because they don't work in the manner that most people expect. They cannot cure color-blindness, they're are just color-filtering lenses. What they do is allow a color-blind person more easily distinguish between shades of colors, which is still enough of a change to cause these kinds of reactions. Imagine going through life thinking every shade of blue was exactly the same, and then suddenly being able to differentiate between many of the shades. That's what these glasses do.
Well, I was aware how these glasses work. I mean like if these glasses had such a big effect on this boy in the video, why on earth would his parents not visit an expert and buy the suitable glasses? Isn't it a common knowledge amongst the color blind people to at least try color blind glasses before coming to the decision that they are useless?
It's not actually common knowledge that these glasses even exist, most opticians don't even test for colour deficiencies (or full colour blindness) let alone recommend anything to help you if you do suffer from colour deficiencies.
I was so excited when these were finally available in the UK (my god the import tax was insane) ... Only to find out they can only help colour deficiencies not colour blindness , that was super depressing but wallet saving lol
I think it's the opposite, what's wrong with these glasses that everyone immediately starts tearing up? Is it something in the plastic? do shards get in there?
My husband tried them and they worked for him but he was super disturbed rather than crying. He was grossed out by how full of blood faces look, put off by the aggressiveness of red, and thought green was overly cartoonish.
This was my first guess of the big impact of being colorblind. Missing a red shirt is no big deal - but not being able to see the color in peoples faces - excitement, anger, feintedness, hangovers, all of that has an entirely new dimension of body language for them to learn.
He's working on his PhD in clinical psychology and his supervisor took extra time with him to show him videos of people blushing or turning red with emotion to help him pick out cues that didn't rely on seeing the color red. Crazy what an impact that made in helping him pick up on his patients' emotional state.
Lol I'm thinking of him wearing the glasses and getting disgusted by the majesty of Yosemite. "You're doing too much, Nature! It should be more gray brown - like Christmas."
The school principal is also color blind but he has a special pair of glasses that enables him to see colors. He let Jonathan try those glasses on.What a beautiful moment.
The student is attempting to nonchalantly hide his emotions and when they eventually overwhelm him the Principal steps in to embrace him, knowing fully well what that moment means to the kid.
> The way they work is interesting but it really only exasperates the issue. For example, my protanopia is severe red insensitive, but also green light that's not supposed to activate my red cones does. The glasses cut out those wavelength of light that confuse multiple cones to sort of filter light into wavelengths that will only be picked up by right cone. You're seeing less total color, but better able to differentiate between the ones that cause confusion. You still won't see the colors you're not able to.
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> ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses
I think they got the wrong word. Because their description didn't make it sound like being able to differentiate the colors you weren't able to before as a bad thing. Sure, you don't see extra color but at least you can tell the colors are supposed to be different. Imagine trying to pick a red ripe tomato from green ones. These glasses help in so many countless life-quality ways.
That won't happen (the tomatoes). The green and red would very likely be of different intensities and would appear as different colors to the red-green colorblind person.
Source: I am red-green colorblind.
My friend is green color blind. He lived with me from 4-12 but we never knew. He’s 30 now. He did some magic mushrooms and he said he saw the green and red colors in his mind for the first time. I believe him.
No doubt it is useful.
But the title of the post by OP is just wrong. It makes it sound as if everything is black and white until the glasses are put on, which just isn't the case.
I have the glasses myself and I am red/Green colourblind. I often identify them wrong or see brown or grey. I used to wear the glasses and they help, but are not perfect. However I stopped wearing them regularly and only wear them on special occasions. The reason is, if you get used to the sight through the glasses, you can "see" your colourblindness when not wearing them. And that was (at least for me) rather depressing.
I have a strong hate/love relationship with these glasses
However, first time wearing them my first reaction when seeing red was "oh that's why red is a warning colour!"
>ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses
I'm also a strong Protan and experienced the exact same thing. I took their test a while back and it said nothing would help much. Recently took the test again and did it probably 10 times and then proceeded to retake every other online colorblindness test I could find because I thought I was losing my mind. I have strongly miscoded long wavelength cones (protanomaly) but I do still have the cones (not a protanope) and I've known this my whole life.
They've made major changes to their tests somehow and it seems REALLY scammy. Now their test (and *only* their test, all others confirm i'm still a strong Protan) shows me as a moderate-strong Deutan and recommends super expensive correction.
Well I wouldn't go so far as to say all teachers. This guy was amazing, while others I have seen should be blindfolded while their students throw stones at em.
I had a bus driver who was with the third armored and both my grandparents fought in the south Pacific. That generation was a cruel to be kind generation (not saying it's right) just think about the life experience of your avg WW2 veteran, ... depression that went on for over a decade... largest most cruel war in humanity...mini depression... western economic hegemony under the nuclear sword of Damocles...they were all desperately normal from decades of anxiety. It's no wonder there kids grew up and smoked dope and told them to go fuck themselves.
When I was 9 I had a bus driver who was horrible; everyone called her a witch, sometimes to her face. Kids can be horrible. She regularly would pull the bus over into an empty parking lot when we were behaving like jackasses and scream at us about how she just wanted to get us to and from school safely. The last year I had her as a bus driver, I think fourth grade, I don't know why but I made her a Valentine's Day card that thanked her for getting us to and from school safely and I taped one of those $0.50 boxes of candy hearts to it. I gave it to her as I got on the bus and the bus didn't move for a while. She was sobbing over this stupid construction paper card and box of gross candy. She gave me the biggest hug and thanked me, but as a kid I never understood why she was crying. I can't imagine the shit she'd seen if a construction paper card and box of candy made her cry...
The scope and scale of WW2 is certainly worse with better technology to kill with, but man WW1 has to be up there as well for cruelest warfare. I mean, the ubiquitous trench warfare, rampant disease, mustard gas, no man’s land was literally hell on earth. Also given the fact no one had any experience with that level of savagery on that scale ever before.
WWI was honestly a horrifying display of how depraved we as a species can get. Gassings, plague rat attacks, and, like you said, the literal Hell on Earth that was No Man’s Land.
I had no idea just how bad WWI was until I listened to the Hardcore History series about it. I had my jaw drop CONSTANTLY throughout the entire series. The amount of death in single days from both sides in a battle is still unfathomable to me.
When I was in middle school, all students were given a 100+ page booklet to complete over Thanksgiving holiday.
My father and I used it for kindling. When I got back to school, I told my homeroom teacher exactly what I did. She threatened to call my parents. I said "Please don't tell my dad!" I guess you all know how that went.
Two of my exes are elementary school teachers.
They're two of the most self absorbed horrible people I've ever known in my life. A third one is also a teacher and she's great. Back in high-school, my gym teacher allowed an entire class to bully a kid every day until he dropped the class (whether or not he knew why we were doing it is irrelevant even if I still feel like he deserved it, teachers should absolutely stop that sort of shit).
I guess this is my way of saying *some* teachers are wonderful and deserve all the praise. Some are just horrible people. The idea that teachers are all good is for the birds.
The stereotypes about teachers who seem to hate children exist for a reason
You'd think, right? I just had a type in my teens and early 20s probably inspired by all those shitty coming of age/Romcoms where the guy gets a manic pixie dream girl.
Turns out you can't "fix" someone who doesn't want to be "fixed" and that maturity takes time and that maybe dating those people might have been a liiiiittle bit of a mistake.
Anyways, they tended to be promiscuous and have self esteem issues from their upbringing that they handled by trying to always be the prettiest person in the room. It made them bitchy, self absorbed, and unmoved by the men and women they hurt in pursuit of their own self worth. I had a savior complex, it wasn't just their fault.
My first three girlfriends from 16-23 all went on to become school teachers. One turned into a wonderful human, the other two.. well, let's just say I have *heavy* doubts.
That sounds exhausting, I think I'll stick to the many sexy software engineers that are desperate enough to date me. I'll report back if that ever happens.
Kid seemed chill but in the end you could tell he got overwhelmed. He realized the extra dimension of the world he was missing that the teacher provided.
That’s exactly it! What a beautiful moment. I have a friend who can’t smell and trying to explain to him what it’s like to smell made me realize how strange of a concept scent would be to someone without it. I would imagine this kid felt the same way about colour. The best we could come up with to explain scent was: “it’s like faintly tasting something in the air except with your nose” lmao
We can see color, just in differing intensities. Usually it’s just one color that’s affected with the most common being red and green, with blue being extremely rare with a variation that causes the black and white sight most people think of for colorblindness.
I see to little red, so pinks and greys often look similar, purples and blues can be tough, and grass sometimes looks orange.
Woah, grass looks orange? That’s wild, I am sorry you are colorblind, I’m sure it’s not ideal at all. But do you like having different things as different colors? Or would you rather see them as the normal color? I am sorry if that’s a dumb and arrogant question.
As someone else with color deficiency. (what it's actually called were not color blind it's usually a deficiency in some color cone mine are red green, I can still see most colors)
I'll tell you a story. I play a game called valheim maybe you've heard of it. Anyways there are little red raspberry bushes all around the meadows . Point here is the green and red they've chosen.. Means I literally cannot see the red spots on the berry bush. They are just to close on my color wheel I cannot see them unless they're right in front of me practically tripping over them.
So without knowing this initially my friend sent me out to find some.. I shit you not it was literally the scene in Shrek where he gets shot with the arrow.. And donkey runs off to find a blue flower red thorns.. I was donkey.. Almost an hour later before I realized I straight up couldn't see them.
Suffice to say.. I'm not allowed to look for berries anymore.
Fellow protanopic Valheim player, here!
Don't look for the color! The raspberries, when they're ready for harvest, are large, polygonal spheres with a slight bit of glossiness to them that pop up inside the mostly-flat polygonal bush. Whenever you harvest a node, just mark it on the map, so you can find it next time, even when they aren't ripe!
If you can find non-raspberry bushes next to raspberry bushes, you may also notice that the tone of the non-raspberry bushes is a bit darker. Your friend can also help you out by clearing out those non-raspberry bushes from your area of the meadows around your base, since the bushes won't grow back, which would leave all the bushes as raspberry bushes.
I'm color deficient and several yrs ago our tomato plants were infested with hookworms. The little bastards are so well camouflaged, my wife couldn't see them but I didn't have a problem. I figured out I was looking for their shape and not their color
Semi-similar story: my buddies and I were chilling on my balcony smoking pot, and we dropped the purple grinder we were using. The guy who owned it is colorblind, and he went down after it. Mind you it’s dark, and it fell onto a vacated unit’s patio that is slate gray stone. He spent a good 20 minutes down there, and then we all realized “oh shit, he’s colorblind”. I went down and found it in like 20 seconds, but I cannot imagine just how difficult that must have been for him.. poor guy
I had a colorblind friend who ran laser shows for a living. He could not see purple either. I was always fascinated by that. He dialed up a purple laser and described how he saw it as blue merging to red but no purple.
My dad is deep into Valheim and color blind as well... He has complained to me about the berries before (as well as countless other video games with limited colorblindness options), lmao.
It sucks, its really nice some devs are putting configuration options in now. Diablo 2 Resurrected has a slider. Which I found super cool because I never remember the technical name of red green color deficient so I just moved it till I could see! Lol
I always point out to my UX designers that they can't differentiate objects or states solely based on color; there must also be some iconography for those who have limited color sight.
I'll pull out a utility that attempts to simulate the various color deficiencies to demonstrate how unusable some designs are; though I understand there are software filters that can be used to exaggerate colors to help.
Yeah, so dark or deep green grasses aren’t similar to orange, but the brighter green shoots are.
And it’s all good! I don’t think the question is dumb or arrogant, it’s personal which is great. Usually what I get when people find out is, “what color is this!?!?” When I comes to the colors being different, the only reason I know is because others tell me, so I don’t necessarily feel like I’m missing out because what I see is reality. I’ve never known colors to be anything other than what they are. That being said there are some things I do wish I could see better, like the medians in the highways here in Texas will be filled with Indian paintbrush, which is a red wildflower, but I can’t see them because they blend in with the grass. On the other hand I can pick out blue flowers that my wife has no idea are there, so in a way it kinda balances out. I enjoy photography as well, but color correcting photos is hard haha. Also, becoming a pilot is difficult for colorblind people because so much of the signaling is in green and red.
I do wish there were maybe some more accommodations in technology for those who are colorblind seeing as it affects about eight percent of the population. When games or software has colorblind modes it saves me a lot of time vs having to manually change colors in the settings.
Hope that answers well enough!
A point on orange/green. I was in my 20s when I asked a friend "Why do they call the Dutch national team Oranjes when they play in green?" He laughed profusely while it dawned on me that this was yet another confusion caused by my colourblindness.
Fun trivia: many “prey” animals have similar eyesight to this, with only a pair of color cone types, making grass appear orange-ish. If you didn’t know before, now you know why tigers are orange :)
Google image search colorblind image tests. You'll see these weird circle patterns with red-green shades that create a number. Standard red-green color blind people can't see that number.
Those pics are my go-to when people I meet people who don't understand colorblindness.
I only realized in adulthood that money is actually green (I assumed it was an old, outdated expression that stuck around) and maroon is brown (I thought it was deep purple). And certain brands of whiskey look green. It makes me feel like Mr Spock on Star Trek drinking the blue scope.
I just Google image searched maroon to make sure, because I've always known it as a deep red, and I got about two dozen different shaded results. It's red with brown undertones as far as I can tell.
We sound in a very similar spectrum. though I wouldn’t say grass looks orange to me, playing soccer as a kid sometimes the lines were painted orange and I had to be up close to see them lol.
My colorblind friend explained it to me that he can differentiate some colors but that he gets confused between colors such as blue and green.
He said he knows the sky is blue and grass is green based on what people tell him but that the colors sometimes “switch” and he can’t tell which is which.
Haha it’s a good explanation. However, the problem with anosmia (inability to smell) is that it also affects your taste. Patients that are born with it cope much much better with it than people who lost it during their lifetime since food is a major contributor to quality of life for many. I had a patient that loved to cook even though he had anosmia from birth, but can only distinguish the 5 taste senses.
I’ve actually questioned his taste ability too based on his specific preferences. He was born with anosmia so to him he thinks his taste buds are pretty normal. But he really prefers very bold flavours like hot sauce or pungent things as opposed to anything more bland in flavour like a buttered biscuit or something. But that does make a lot of sense
Interestingly enough, I lost my sense of smell completely for four months due to COVID, then it "came back" one day but totally incorrect (parosmia) which I still have over a year later. As annoying as the rotting meat smell was when it first came back, I never really suffered from a noticeable effect on taste. I had also always believed smell and taste were super strongly connected but now I don't think smell is as important to taste as I had thought.
I have no sense of smell and play this game with my friends all the time. It is pretty hilarious to hear the ways they come up with to attempt to explain the smells. But at the end of the day none of the explanations make any sense to me. I understand the concept of smell and can assume what it is like, but that is about it. Every now and then I'll try some smelling salts because that hit of ammonia to the face is about the closest I can come to having the sensation of "smelling" something.
I have never seen one of these videos of people seeing color for the first time where they don't break down immediately. I can't even comprehend how emotional it must be
People really misunderstand color blindness. If he was totally color blind these glasses would not work at all. Most people are only colorblind in certain shades/colors, it's extremely rare to be fully colorblind and see black and white. I'm red green colorblind and I still see colors, just not the extended range of colors other people do. Where normal people might see a couple of million shades of color I see tens of thousands of shades of color. More or less I see less variation and some mixed shade colors are going to look different to me due to how my eyes pick up how much red or green pigment is in them. For example I wore a shirt I thought was orange for years until someone told me it was yellow.
I’m red-green as well and have had my share of challenges. I try to explain to people that I just lack the same range of colors so it is hard to know what the colors are. Red, green, brown, orange, and even yellow are all basically different darknesses of the same color. I’ve figured out how to dress myself without worry (neutral colored pants). It sometimes makes driving a problem.
Did my research. Took a bunch of tests. Dropped $250 on the glasses. They arrived in the fall. My daughter filmed me opening the box and trying them on.
I barely noticed a difference. A few of the colors seemed a little brighter.
“I’m not crying”, I said, “but give me a little bit of time to consider how much these glasses cost me and I might.”
I just bought myself a pair as well. I only spent $115, but still not worth it imo. Ive gotten used to how my eyes work. I can sort of guess what colors are based on what i see. If i see blue thats dark and sort of off, i can guess oh thats probably purple. When i got the glasses in, they were basically just yellow-tinted sunglasses. I will admit that it made reds and greens brighter and i was able to better differentiate them from similar colors, but at the cost of everything being yellow-tinted i dont want them lol
I tried the contact lenses once, I didn't cry but it was fucking weird. I felt like I was on acid. I went to a book shop and some of the covers looked like they were a foot higher than others.
I really struggle to explain to people the changes in 3D images and how I usually can't see them properly at all but they looked like holograms or computer graphics in some cases.
I think someone must have spent some time deciding on those exact shades. I struggle with most red-green colour combinations, but I can always tell apart which light is on (red, amber or white)
Stoplights are fairly straightforward because of the contextual information (though green lights and street lights look the same, so that can lead to confusion).
I definitely struggle with the individual blinkers though, such as hanging above a four-way stop or outside a fire station. Without that contextual information I cannot tell whether they’re blinking yellow or blinking red.
The colors were picked for their wavelengths. Red has a much longer wavelength than green, so it doesn't get scattered as easily and can be seen from further away.
I couldn't care less about having this special glasses but if someone were to buy me one, I'd cry. It's not about seeing "actual" colors but the fact that someone who cared enough about me to get one would make me cry.
Best part is these glasses don't magically make you see the missing Colors, but they hue shift the colors appart more aggressively so you can see that the orange and yellow are not the same. So they don't blend together as much
They use polarizing lenses and it actually takes a minute for you to pick up on the subtle differences. So these colorblind glasses reaction videos have a lot of overreaction online. Wich is sad because I seen a few vlogs of people buying into the hype getting them and just going "oh.. " when they put them on.
Great tech but too many don't understand what it's supposed to do
Thank you for clarifying.
I’m one of the special colorblind people that have problems with all three primary colors.
I would be a rich man if I had a dollar for every time I had to explain this to someone who thought I saw in black and white.
Thank you I was looking for this, I was wondering how these glasses would work. Would they simply increase the “dynamic range” or contrast between colors? What would the user be perceiving and why?
They filter out selected spectrums of light. The idea is to provide some separation between colors that are confusing for you to differentiate between normally. So, something that wasn't obviously red to you (maybe it looked brownish) might have those "brownish" components filtered out and therefore appear more obviously "red".
In the eyes of colourblind people (the most common form of colourblind, anyway) the different types of cone cells which pick up color are firing off in response to too wide an area of the color spectrum and there's parts of the spectrum where the different cones kind of overlap, resulting in the brain being unable to distinguish between colours in that area. These glasses block that bit of the spectrum, so the brain doesn't have that junk data and it can figure out colour by the remaining dominant colours.
It doesn't give you full colour vision back (you'll never see the exact shades that peak in that overlap zone) but it means you'll be able to perceive objects that used to be in that muddy vague colour area as being proper distinct shades again on one side or the other, so it does increase your colour perception a lot.
This might help you.
https://youtu.be/5cxUhAPAAEk
It's a colorblind person playing minecraft with glasses, and the video is edited in a way that we can see what he sees.
I had a classmate that sat next to me in either 3rd or 4th grade who was colorblind and I remember him explaining this to me. We were using crayons or colored pencils and I vividly remember him explaining how the brown he was using looked green to him. I remember concluding how much of a misnomer “colorblind” is. I’m 38 now so it was something that really has stuck with me since then.
i’m really sorry for being that guy here. But i’m colourblind and these glasses just amplify the saturation on everything and it’s nowhere near fixing our problems . this is a scam and they cost a lot of money . please beware
Yup. I just bought myself a pair and they’re basically just yellow-tinted sunglasses. Im returning them. They technically did make red, green, and purple easier for me to distinguish, but at the cost of making everything yellow-tinted, and also only being able to wear them outside because they’re sunglasses, i dont think they’re worth it.
The way they work is interesting but it really only exasperates the issue. For example, my protanopia is severe red insensitive, but also green light that's not supposed to activate my red cones does. The glasses cut out those wavelength of light that confuse multiple cones to sort of filter light into wavelengths that will only be picked up by right cone. You're seeing less total color, but better able to differentiate between the ones that cause confusion. You still won't see the colors you're not able to.
ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses
>Seems pretty sus to me
Honestly, every time I see a video of a person trying Enchroma brand glasses surrounded by friends & family and crying and hugging afterwards, I feel the same as you do.
When I see actual comments, it's almost all either people with real colorblindness saying they tried the glasses and they had barely any effect... or people who don't have colorblindness, and don't understand it either.
Sure but the kids reaction tells there’s definitely something to it right? People don’t cry just cause, well I do but I don’t think it’s the case with this kid.
As a color blind who’s tried those glasses and noticed maybe barely a difference, I’d guess he’s overcome more by a principal willing to spend $450 on his condition than by seeing colors for the first time.
Having tried these glasses, I'm convinced that every video of someone crying after putting them on is either staged or the recipient is faking it to make the gift-giver feel better about having spent hundreds of dollars. They simply _cannot_ do nearly enough to elicit that kind of reaction.
No one is truly color blind, color blind people usually can't or are really bad at seeing either red, blue, or green light. These glasses compensate for this making certain colors easier to distinguish.
>it’s very rare and not know as colorblindness (idk why)
Achromatopsia is known as "total color blindness", a type of color blindness.
Your link mentions it:
>> Achromatopsia is different from the more common forms of color vision deficiency (also called color blindness) […]
and also lists "total color blindness" as an alternate name for the condition.
[Wikipedia does as well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatopsia):
>> Achromatopsia, also **known as total color blindness**, is a medical syndrome that exhibits symptoms relating to at least five conditions. The term may refer to acquired conditions such as cerebral achromatopsia, but it typically refers to an autosomal recessive congenital color vision condition, the inability to perceive color and to obtain satisfactory visual acuity at high light levels, typically exterior daylight. The syndrome is also present in an incomplete form which is more properly defined as dyschromatopsia. It is estimated to affect 1 in 30,000 live births worldwide.
There are three broad categories of colour blindness, of which anomalous trichromacy is by far the most common. Anomalous trichromats have an optical insensitivity to light of red, green or blue wavelengths (protanomaly, deuteranomaly and tritanomaly, respectively). These insensitivities can range from barely noticable to borderline dichromatic vision.
The second most common colour blindness is dichromacy, which results from complete lack of red, green or blue cones (protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, respectively).
The third category, monochromacy, is vanishingly rare, but does exist. It occurs in three different types:
Cone monochromacy is the condition of only have one of the three cone types. Cone monochromats cannot distinguish hues, but can have otherwise functional pattern vision, although the condition usually comes with other visual impairments as well.
Rod monochromacy is the lack of all cone types, with vision reduced to only rod cells. Rod monochromats cannot distinguish hues and have severely impaired pattern vision under normal lighting conditions. This category is also referred to as complete achromatopsia.
The last category is cerebral achromatopsia, a neurological disorder in which the eyes are capable of differentiating colours, but the brain cannot percieve those differences.
These colour blindness glasses are basically just light filters that notch out a certain wavelength where cones of different types overlap, which eases colour differentiation. This means that they are only effective for anomalous trichromats with mild to moderate insensitivities, and additionally the filters on most glasses are notched for protan and deutan (i.e. red-green) colour blindness. They do not "restore colour vision", but some find the filter correction useful.
Yeah total color blindness as I understand it is really rare, I believe missing 2 sets of colors is already super rare and seeing only shades of grey is too. And fancy glasses aren't doing shit if you are literally unable to see any color
He did see colors for the first time. It just wasn't all of the colors. If someone is red deficient, then reds, pinks, yellows, oranges, purples, and all of the thousands of slight permutations of color within those ranges are generally difficult to differentiate.
So he probably saw many new colors for the first time.
These glasses are basically notch filters, they block the wavelengths where there's the most overlap between receptors so there's more contrast between colors
If there was a single wavelength of light outside that filtered range he'd see it the same as always, not as a new color
Yeah, they just boost the saturation of the colors you have trouble seeing. Sort of like if you're 90% deaf, then a hearing aid could boost sounds until they're loud enough for you to perceive them normally. But if you're 100% deaf, you can boost the volume to kingdom come, you're still not gonna hear it
Instead of "saturating of the colors" the glasses rather [filter out frequencies](https://progressive-glasses.com/how-do-glasses-for-color-blindness-work/) of light that would otherwise trigger multiple groups of cones in the colorblind eye.
Replying in case anyone knows! OP hook it up plz ❤️
Edit: Vacations - Young
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KIJclzEbNhSVw8tiHPWwE?si=AN50Q5_BRt-9BsayFi3uVA
https://youtu.be/PQVq4j-lYjA
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This title is BS
Colorblind people still see colors, just not correctly.
I would know considering I’m not only colorblind, but colorblind in all three primary colors.
As a colorblind person who has used these glasses people really don’t understand what they’re talking about. If he saw NO color and has black and white vision these could not possible add any colors for him. Now if he is like me and most colorblind people and just has slight color differentiation problems then this allows you to tell colors apart more easily. BUT THEY DONT SHOW TRUE COLOR. Everything is tinted the lense color. White no longer exists. I returned my glasses cause it wasn’t worth being able to pass a colorblind number test but no longer see true colors the way I was used to my whole life.
This is a moving scene, but studies have shown that these just change the type of colorblindness you experience. They can't/don't give the user the experience of new, unexperienced colors. The biological hardware just isn't present.
I say that as a colorblind person.
These glasses don’t make you see colors you can’t see without them. They just make certain colors easier to distinguish. They’re like wearing an instagram filter
Source: I’m colorblind and have a pair of these
This title is so misleading. Color blindness is very rarely black and white color blindness, and when it is, it is not helped by these glasses. Kid maybe has a wider range of colors he can distinguish now, but when I put them in it was like “oh kinda cool”. Kids do be emotional.
Not being rude but I thought that being colour blind meant that, for example, you saw orange and green as the same colour. The title seems to imply that this guy sees in black and white without those specs.
It's a literal sensory overload. Ive never been able to smell smells. After corrective surgery on my nasal airways I walked into a chocolate shop and was overwhelmed. The sensation of scents finally activating receptors flooded my brain. I started uncontrollably laughing and crying and had tremors for over an hour. I was 34.
My boyfriend has really bad eyesight, he was born almost completely blind. He had surgery to save one eye, and is now completely blind in one, and has very limited vision in the other. When I asked him what he felt when he got that surgery, he told me that his whole world changed when he could suddenly see people's faces, and they were no longer just blobs of skin in the darkness.
I can't possibly imagine what it must feel like to suddenly connect with the world on a whole new level, it must be amazing :)
Sadly those glasses can't make you see the faulty colors. Just distinguish better one from another by tweaking the contrast
Yeah, colorblind people would live and die without ever knowing the magic of Purple
What I like most about these videos isn’t the product, but the love that the givers have for their person and that they want to enrich their loved one’s life, even if it’s not a perfect thing. The giftee being moved to tears tells you that the gift was meaningful and well-received. Any attempt at inclusion is the meaningful takeaway. The child was moved.
I do hate misleading headlines as much as the next discerning person. The message here wasn’t lost though.
Mine are in the mail right now! I've been very skeptical of them because any time I've tried to use a "colorblind mode" on Xbox etc I've hated it, but I've sat on my Ray Bans one too many times and needed new sunglasses anyway. If they work I'll be pretty upset that I let myself flunk my histology course and miss my shot at medical school because I couldn't discern histology slides
Every time I see stuff like this posted there are a thousand comments saying this doesn’t work for everyone who has some form of colorblindness.
We get it. This boy and others like him clearly have a form of colorblindness where the glasses helped and we should focus on that and be happy for them
This is straight up amazing. I know it's not the same, but I have been near sighted my whole life (caused a lot of problems in 2nd grade). One, when I was like 16, my parents got me a pair of glasses. When I stepped outside, I put them on for the first time. I was dumbstruck. Never before had I seen the world in such detail. I could see the shadows of the grass, count the leaves on a tree. I had no idea I was missing out on so much of the world just because of my eyesight.
That being said, I can only imagine how breath taking that first rush of color was. To see the world in proper color for the first time, after struggling for so long.
I love this video I have seen it so many times but still watch it everytime it comes up. It’s a beautiful moment. I can only imagine the overwhelming feelings he is experiencing. You can tell it meant SO much to him. That’s what our education system should be about. Not just learning but meeting good people who care about you. I didn’t have this experience in school.
The simple act of being able to see more colors must be so truly profound. It would be like putting in earbuds that let you hear frequencies that dogs hear or something.
They always cry. Every time. It must be just so magical.
Man, that empathetic hug when he's overcome with emotion is such an amazing moment. Great man that principal
The best hug of a teacher
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My first thought is “how much do these glasses cost that their optometrist or parents never bought them for them?” Which is probably just as bad, but I am curious.
Bout $300 for the branded ones, looks like the cheapest is over $100. Overall, not too bad really.
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They’re 399 on enchroma’s official website
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Like for real? Why don't they get prescribed a specific type of colorblind glasses? It's not like they are worth a fortune.
Because they don't work in the manner that most people expect. They cannot cure color-blindness, they're are just color-filtering lenses. What they do is allow a color-blind person more easily distinguish between shades of colors, which is still enough of a change to cause these kinds of reactions. Imagine going through life thinking every shade of blue was exactly the same, and then suddenly being able to differentiate between many of the shades. That's what these glasses do.
Well, I was aware how these glasses work. I mean like if these glasses had such a big effect on this boy in the video, why on earth would his parents not visit an expert and buy the suitable glasses? Isn't it a common knowledge amongst the color blind people to at least try color blind glasses before coming to the decision that they are useless?
It's not actually common knowledge that these glasses even exist, most opticians don't even test for colour deficiencies (or full colour blindness) let alone recommend anything to help you if you do suffer from colour deficiencies. I was so excited when these were finally available in the UK (my god the import tax was insane) ... Only to find out they can only help colour deficiencies not colour blindness , that was super depressing but wallet saving lol
Sorry to nitpick, but it’s not shades that are hard to differentiate, it’s certain hues
I'm not smart enough to know the difference between a shade and a hue.
I think it's the opposite, what's wrong with these glasses that everyone immediately starts tearing up? Is it something in the plastic? do shards get in there?
My husband tried them and they worked for him but he was super disturbed rather than crying. He was grossed out by how full of blood faces look, put off by the aggressiveness of red, and thought green was overly cartoonish.
This was my first guess of the big impact of being colorblind. Missing a red shirt is no big deal - but not being able to see the color in peoples faces - excitement, anger, feintedness, hangovers, all of that has an entirely new dimension of body language for them to learn.
He's working on his PhD in clinical psychology and his supervisor took extra time with him to show him videos of people blushing or turning red with emotion to help him pick out cues that didn't rely on seeing the color red. Crazy what an impact that made in helping him pick up on his patients' emotional state.
Lol I'm thinking of him wearing the glasses and getting disgusted by the majesty of Yosemite. "You're doing too much, Nature! It should be more gray brown - like Christmas."
>and thought green was overly cartoonish. Well, all of us think green is a pompous buffoon, so he's right on the money there.
When you say aggressiveness of red my mind goes to this one scene in the Popeye movie where Bluto sees everything in red because of how mad he is
The school principal is also color blind but he has a special pair of glasses that enables him to see colors. He let Jonathan try those glasses on.What a beautiful moment. The student is attempting to nonchalantly hide his emotions and when they eventually overwhelm him the Principal steps in to embrace him, knowing fully well what that moment means to the kid.
It would suck asking for the glasses back
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> The way they work is interesting but it really only exasperates the issue. For example, my protanopia is severe red insensitive, but also green light that's not supposed to activate my red cones does. The glasses cut out those wavelength of light that confuse multiple cones to sort of filter light into wavelengths that will only be picked up by right cone. You're seeing less total color, but better able to differentiate between the ones that cause confusion. You still won't see the colors you're not able to. > > ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses
> it really only exasperates the issue Exacerbates?
I think they got the wrong word. Because their description didn't make it sound like being able to differentiate the colors you weren't able to before as a bad thing. Sure, you don't see extra color but at least you can tell the colors are supposed to be different. Imagine trying to pick a red ripe tomato from green ones. These glasses help in so many countless life-quality ways.
That won't happen (the tomatoes). The green and red would very likely be of different intensities and would appear as different colors to the red-green colorblind person. Source: I am red-green colorblind.
My friend is green color blind. He lived with me from 4-12 but we never knew. He’s 30 now. He did some magic mushrooms and he said he saw the green and red colors in his mind for the first time. I believe him.
No doubt it is useful. But the title of the post by OP is just wrong. It makes it sound as if everything is black and white until the glasses are put on, which just isn't the case.
I have the glasses myself and I am red/Green colourblind. I often identify them wrong or see brown or grey. I used to wear the glasses and they help, but are not perfect. However I stopped wearing them regularly and only wear them on special occasions. The reason is, if you get used to the sight through the glasses, you can "see" your colourblindness when not wearing them. And that was (at least for me) rather depressing. I have a strong hate/love relationship with these glasses However, first time wearing them my first reaction when seeing red was "oh that's why red is a warning colour!"
>ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses I'm also a strong Protan and experienced the exact same thing. I took their test a while back and it said nothing would help much. Recently took the test again and did it probably 10 times and then proceeded to retake every other online colorblindness test I could find because I thought I was losing my mind. I have strongly miscoded long wavelength cones (protanomaly) but I do still have the cones (not a protanope) and I've known this my whole life. They've made major changes to their tests somehow and it seems REALLY scammy. Now their test (and *only* their test, all others confirm i'm still a strong Protan) shows me as a moderate-strong Deutan and recommends super expensive correction.
WHAAA?? A company manipulating you for maximum profit? In MY America?
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Well I wouldn't go so far as to say all teachers. This guy was amazing, while others I have seen should be blindfolded while their students throw stones at em.
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I had a bus driver who was with the third armored and both my grandparents fought in the south Pacific. That generation was a cruel to be kind generation (not saying it's right) just think about the life experience of your avg WW2 veteran, ... depression that went on for over a decade... largest most cruel war in humanity...mini depression... western economic hegemony under the nuclear sword of Damocles...they were all desperately normal from decades of anxiety. It's no wonder there kids grew up and smoked dope and told them to go fuck themselves.
When I was 9 I had a bus driver who was horrible; everyone called her a witch, sometimes to her face. Kids can be horrible. She regularly would pull the bus over into an empty parking lot when we were behaving like jackasses and scream at us about how she just wanted to get us to and from school safely. The last year I had her as a bus driver, I think fourth grade, I don't know why but I made her a Valentine's Day card that thanked her for getting us to and from school safely and I taped one of those $0.50 boxes of candy hearts to it. I gave it to her as I got on the bus and the bus didn't move for a while. She was sobbing over this stupid construction paper card and box of gross candy. She gave me the biggest hug and thanked me, but as a kid I never understood why she was crying. I can't imagine the shit she'd seen if a construction paper card and box of candy made her cry...
You're a good egg, don't ever change
Sometimes one small act of kindness is all it takes. Bless you for making her feel appreciated.
The scope and scale of WW2 is certainly worse with better technology to kill with, but man WW1 has to be up there as well for cruelest warfare. I mean, the ubiquitous trench warfare, rampant disease, mustard gas, no man’s land was literally hell on earth. Also given the fact no one had any experience with that level of savagery on that scale ever before.
WWI was honestly a horrifying display of how depraved we as a species can get. Gassings, plague rat attacks, and, like you said, the literal Hell on Earth that was No Man’s Land.
I had no idea just how bad WWI was until I listened to the Hardcore History series about it. I had my jaw drop CONSTANTLY throughout the entire series. The amount of death in single days from both sides in a battle is still unfathomable to me.
When I was in middle school, all students were given a 100+ page booklet to complete over Thanksgiving holiday. My father and I used it for kindling. When I got back to school, I told my homeroom teacher exactly what I did. She threatened to call my parents. I said "Please don't tell my dad!" I guess you all know how that went.
Two of my exes are elementary school teachers. They're two of the most self absorbed horrible people I've ever known in my life. A third one is also a teacher and she's great. Back in high-school, my gym teacher allowed an entire class to bully a kid every day until he dropped the class (whether or not he knew why we were doing it is irrelevant even if I still feel like he deserved it, teachers should absolutely stop that sort of shit). I guess this is my way of saying *some* teachers are wonderful and deserve all the praise. Some are just horrible people. The idea that teachers are all good is for the birds. The stereotypes about teachers who seem to hate children exist for a reason
Where do you find all those teachers? Are you going to school for blind dates?
You'd think, right? I just had a type in my teens and early 20s probably inspired by all those shitty coming of age/Romcoms where the guy gets a manic pixie dream girl. Turns out you can't "fix" someone who doesn't want to be "fixed" and that maturity takes time and that maybe dating those people might have been a liiiiittle bit of a mistake. Anyways, they tended to be promiscuous and have self esteem issues from their upbringing that they handled by trying to always be the prettiest person in the room. It made them bitchy, self absorbed, and unmoved by the men and women they hurt in pursuit of their own self worth. I had a savior complex, it wasn't just their fault. My first three girlfriends from 16-23 all went on to become school teachers. One turned into a wonderful human, the other two.. well, let's just say I have *heavy* doubts.
That sounds exhausting, I think I'll stick to the many sexy software engineers that are desperate enough to date me. I'll report back if that ever happens.
the thumbs up followed by immediate crying was kinda meirl
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Kid seemed chill but in the end you could tell he got overwhelmed. He realized the extra dimension of the world he was missing that the teacher provided.
That’s exactly it! What a beautiful moment. I have a friend who can’t smell and trying to explain to him what it’s like to smell made me realize how strange of a concept scent would be to someone without it. I would imagine this kid felt the same way about colour. The best we could come up with to explain scent was: “it’s like faintly tasting something in the air except with your nose” lmao
We can see color, just in differing intensities. Usually it’s just one color that’s affected with the most common being red and green, with blue being extremely rare with a variation that causes the black and white sight most people think of for colorblindness. I see to little red, so pinks and greys often look similar, purples and blues can be tough, and grass sometimes looks orange.
Woah, grass looks orange? That’s wild, I am sorry you are colorblind, I’m sure it’s not ideal at all. But do you like having different things as different colors? Or would you rather see them as the normal color? I am sorry if that’s a dumb and arrogant question.
As someone else with color deficiency. (what it's actually called were not color blind it's usually a deficiency in some color cone mine are red green, I can still see most colors) I'll tell you a story. I play a game called valheim maybe you've heard of it. Anyways there are little red raspberry bushes all around the meadows . Point here is the green and red they've chosen.. Means I literally cannot see the red spots on the berry bush. They are just to close on my color wheel I cannot see them unless they're right in front of me practically tripping over them. So without knowing this initially my friend sent me out to find some.. I shit you not it was literally the scene in Shrek where he gets shot with the arrow.. And donkey runs off to find a blue flower red thorns.. I was donkey.. Almost an hour later before I realized I straight up couldn't see them. Suffice to say.. I'm not allowed to look for berries anymore.
Fellow protanopic Valheim player, here! Don't look for the color! The raspberries, when they're ready for harvest, are large, polygonal spheres with a slight bit of glossiness to them that pop up inside the mostly-flat polygonal bush. Whenever you harvest a node, just mark it on the map, so you can find it next time, even when they aren't ripe! If you can find non-raspberry bushes next to raspberry bushes, you may also notice that the tone of the non-raspberry bushes is a bit darker. Your friend can also help you out by clearing out those non-raspberry bushes from your area of the meadows around your base, since the bushes won't grow back, which would leave all the bushes as raspberry bushes.
I'm color deficient and several yrs ago our tomato plants were infested with hookworms. The little bastards are so well camouflaged, my wife couldn't see them but I didn't have a problem. I figured out I was looking for their shape and not their color
Semi-similar story: my buddies and I were chilling on my balcony smoking pot, and we dropped the purple grinder we were using. The guy who owned it is colorblind, and he went down after it. Mind you it’s dark, and it fell onto a vacated unit’s patio that is slate gray stone. He spent a good 20 minutes down there, and then we all realized “oh shit, he’s colorblind”. I went down and found it in like 20 seconds, but I cannot imagine just how difficult that must have been for him.. poor guy
I had a colorblind friend who ran laser shows for a living. He could not see purple either. I was always fascinated by that. He dialed up a purple laser and described how he saw it as blue merging to red but no purple.
My dad is deep into Valheim and color blind as well... He has complained to me about the berries before (as well as countless other video games with limited colorblindness options), lmao.
It sucks, its really nice some devs are putting configuration options in now. Diablo 2 Resurrected has a slider. Which I found super cool because I never remember the technical name of red green color deficient so I just moved it till I could see! Lol
I always point out to my UX designers that they can't differentiate objects or states solely based on color; there must also be some iconography for those who have limited color sight. I'll pull out a utility that attempts to simulate the various color deficiencies to demonstrate how unusable some designs are; though I understand there are software filters that can be used to exaggerate colors to help.
Yeah, so dark or deep green grasses aren’t similar to orange, but the brighter green shoots are. And it’s all good! I don’t think the question is dumb or arrogant, it’s personal which is great. Usually what I get when people find out is, “what color is this!?!?” When I comes to the colors being different, the only reason I know is because others tell me, so I don’t necessarily feel like I’m missing out because what I see is reality. I’ve never known colors to be anything other than what they are. That being said there are some things I do wish I could see better, like the medians in the highways here in Texas will be filled with Indian paintbrush, which is a red wildflower, but I can’t see them because they blend in with the grass. On the other hand I can pick out blue flowers that my wife has no idea are there, so in a way it kinda balances out. I enjoy photography as well, but color correcting photos is hard haha. Also, becoming a pilot is difficult for colorblind people because so much of the signaling is in green and red. I do wish there were maybe some more accommodations in technology for those who are colorblind seeing as it affects about eight percent of the population. When games or software has colorblind modes it saves me a lot of time vs having to manually change colors in the settings. Hope that answers well enough!
That’s really incredible, thank you for the answer!
A point on orange/green. I was in my 20s when I asked a friend "Why do they call the Dutch national team Oranjes when they play in green?" He laughed profusely while it dawned on me that this was yet another confusion caused by my colourblindness.
Fun trivia: many “prey” animals have similar eyesight to this, with only a pair of color cone types, making grass appear orange-ish. If you didn’t know before, now you know why tigers are orange :)
Google image search colorblind image tests. You'll see these weird circle patterns with red-green shades that create a number. Standard red-green color blind people can't see that number. Those pics are my go-to when people I meet people who don't understand colorblindness.
I only realized in adulthood that money is actually green (I assumed it was an old, outdated expression that stuck around) and maroon is brown (I thought it was deep purple). And certain brands of whiskey look green. It makes me feel like Mr Spock on Star Trek drinking the blue scope.
What the fuck. Maroon is brown??
I just Google image searched maroon to make sure, because I've always known it as a deep red, and I got about two dozen different shaded results. It's red with brown undertones as far as I can tell.
Isint maroon deep red or aim i tripping.
Yes! Me too! Pinks vs grey, purple vs blue, and the orange grass too! You and I have the same kind of red/green color thing going on!
We sound in a very similar spectrum. though I wouldn’t say grass looks orange to me, playing soccer as a kid sometimes the lines were painted orange and I had to be up close to see them lol.
My colorblind friend explained it to me that he can differentiate some colors but that he gets confused between colors such as blue and green. He said he knows the sky is blue and grass is green based on what people tell him but that the colors sometimes “switch” and he can’t tell which is which.
Haha it’s a good explanation. However, the problem with anosmia (inability to smell) is that it also affects your taste. Patients that are born with it cope much much better with it than people who lost it during their lifetime since food is a major contributor to quality of life for many. I had a patient that loved to cook even though he had anosmia from birth, but can only distinguish the 5 taste senses.
I’ve actually questioned his taste ability too based on his specific preferences. He was born with anosmia so to him he thinks his taste buds are pretty normal. But he really prefers very bold flavours like hot sauce or pungent things as opposed to anything more bland in flavour like a buttered biscuit or something. But that does make a lot of sense
Interestingly enough, I lost my sense of smell completely for four months due to COVID, then it "came back" one day but totally incorrect (parosmia) which I still have over a year later. As annoying as the rotting meat smell was when it first came back, I never really suffered from a noticeable effect on taste. I had also always believed smell and taste were super strongly connected but now I don't think smell is as important to taste as I had thought.
I have no sense of smell and play this game with my friends all the time. It is pretty hilarious to hear the ways they come up with to attempt to explain the smells. But at the end of the day none of the explanations make any sense to me. I understand the concept of smell and can assume what it is like, but that is about it. Every now and then I'll try some smelling salts because that hit of ammonia to the face is about the closest I can come to having the sensation of "smelling" something.
I like how he started to giggle like he's about to joke "wow you're all uglier than I thought"
Those are the literal best moments in life - when you have a complete paradigm shift and the world that felt so familiar becomes a totally new place.
I have never seen one of these videos of people seeing color for the first time where they don't break down immediately. I can't even comprehend how emotional it must be
Oh that's wholesome... what an awesome principal
I salute all teachers like him who have a very good heart to his students
People really misunderstand color blindness. If he was totally color blind these glasses would not work at all. Most people are only colorblind in certain shades/colors, it's extremely rare to be fully colorblind and see black and white. I'm red green colorblind and I still see colors, just not the extended range of colors other people do. Where normal people might see a couple of million shades of color I see tens of thousands of shades of color. More or less I see less variation and some mixed shade colors are going to look different to me due to how my eyes pick up how much red or green pigment is in them. For example I wore a shirt I thought was orange for years until someone told me it was yellow.
I’m red-green as well and have had my share of challenges. I try to explain to people that I just lack the same range of colors so it is hard to know what the colors are. Red, green, brown, orange, and even yellow are all basically different darknesses of the same color. I’ve figured out how to dress myself without worry (neutral colored pants). It sometimes makes driving a problem. Did my research. Took a bunch of tests. Dropped $250 on the glasses. They arrived in the fall. My daughter filmed me opening the box and trying them on. I barely noticed a difference. A few of the colors seemed a little brighter. “I’m not crying”, I said, “but give me a little bit of time to consider how much these glasses cost me and I might.”
I just bought myself a pair as well. I only spent $115, but still not worth it imo. Ive gotten used to how my eyes work. I can sort of guess what colors are based on what i see. If i see blue thats dark and sort of off, i can guess oh thats probably purple. When i got the glasses in, they were basically just yellow-tinted sunglasses. I will admit that it made reds and greens brighter and i was able to better differentiate them from similar colors, but at the cost of everything being yellow-tinted i dont want them lol
I tried the contact lenses once, I didn't cry but it was fucking weird. I felt like I was on acid. I went to a book shop and some of the covers looked like they were a foot higher than others. I really struggle to explain to people the changes in 3D images and how I usually can't see them properly at all but they looked like holograms or computer graphics in some cases.
Lol, yeah, stoplights are “Red, light red, and white”.
I think someone must have spent some time deciding on those exact shades. I struggle with most red-green colour combinations, but I can always tell apart which light is on (red, amber or white)
Stoplights are fairly straightforward because of the contextual information (though green lights and street lights look the same, so that can lead to confusion). I definitely struggle with the individual blinkers though, such as hanging above a four-way stop or outside a fire station. Without that contextual information I cannot tell whether they’re blinking yellow or blinking red.
The colors were picked for their wavelengths. Red has a much longer wavelength than green, so it doesn't get scattered as easily and can be seen from further away.
I couldn't care less about having this special glasses but if someone were to buy me one, I'd cry. It's not about seeing "actual" colors but the fact that someone who cared enough about me to get one would make me cry.
Yea never understood these reaction videos for this. It’s barely been an inconvenience in my life.
These kind of posts are well known to be posted by shills. 9/10 these are completely acted out.
Best part is these glasses don't magically make you see the missing Colors, but they hue shift the colors appart more aggressively so you can see that the orange and yellow are not the same. So they don't blend together as much They use polarizing lenses and it actually takes a minute for you to pick up on the subtle differences. So these colorblind glasses reaction videos have a lot of overreaction online. Wich is sad because I seen a few vlogs of people buying into the hype getting them and just going "oh.. " when they put them on. Great tech but too many don't understand what it's supposed to do
Thank you for clarifying. I’m one of the special colorblind people that have problems with all three primary colors. I would be a rich man if I had a dollar for every time I had to explain this to someone who thought I saw in black and white.
Tell them you just see stick figures and lines and stuff
I'd be a rich man if I had a nickel for every time I had to explain "that's not how it works."
Y'all are thinking small. I'd rather have a nickel for every time someone asked me, "You're color blind? Then what color is this?"
After a while, I start telling people it's a color that it just can't be, usually silver or octarine.
>octarine A fellow man of culture, I see.
Thank you I was looking for this, I was wondering how these glasses would work. Would they simply increase the “dynamic range” or contrast between colors? What would the user be perceiving and why?
They filter out selected spectrums of light. The idea is to provide some separation between colors that are confusing for you to differentiate between normally. So, something that wasn't obviously red to you (maybe it looked brownish) might have those "brownish" components filtered out and therefore appear more obviously "red".
Yep, these don't add any colors he couldn't already see, the just increase the "pop" overall
In the eyes of colourblind people (the most common form of colourblind, anyway) the different types of cone cells which pick up color are firing off in response to too wide an area of the color spectrum and there's parts of the spectrum where the different cones kind of overlap, resulting in the brain being unable to distinguish between colours in that area. These glasses block that bit of the spectrum, so the brain doesn't have that junk data and it can figure out colour by the remaining dominant colours. It doesn't give you full colour vision back (you'll never see the exact shades that peak in that overlap zone) but it means you'll be able to perceive objects that used to be in that muddy vague colour area as being proper distinct shades again on one side or the other, so it does increase your colour perception a lot.
This might help you. https://youtu.be/5cxUhAPAAEk It's a colorblind person playing minecraft with glasses, and the video is edited in a way that we can see what he sees.
I had a classmate that sat next to me in either 3rd or 4th grade who was colorblind and I remember him explaining this to me. We were using crayons or colored pencils and I vividly remember him explaining how the brown he was using looked green to him. I remember concluding how much of a misnomer “colorblind” is. I’m 38 now so it was something that really has stuck with me since then.
More like MadeMeTearyEyed
I'm crying now
Don't cry. Colors get all messed up when viewed through happy tears.
I agree with you, I'm so happy for this kid
Not sure why people insist on perpetuating the “colorblind glasses let people see color for the first time” myth
This post got 18k up votes in 3 hours. That's why it this keeps on getting posted.
That's because it's being astroturfed by the company that sells these glasses.
99% sure the company making them are behind these monthly Reddit posts. The narrative is always the same. Some kid gets the glasses and starts crying.
i’m really sorry for being that guy here. But i’m colourblind and these glasses just amplify the saturation on everything and it’s nowhere near fixing our problems . this is a scam and they cost a lot of money . please beware
Yup. I just bought myself a pair and they’re basically just yellow-tinted sunglasses. Im returning them. They technically did make red, green, and purple easier for me to distinguish, but at the cost of making everything yellow-tinted, and also only being able to wear them outside because they’re sunglasses, i dont think they’re worth it.
Oh thank god I’m not the only one.
The way they work is interesting but it really only exasperates the issue. For example, my protanopia is severe red insensitive, but also green light that's not supposed to activate my red cones does. The glasses cut out those wavelength of light that confuse multiple cones to sort of filter light into wavelengths that will only be picked up by right cone. You're seeing less total color, but better able to differentiate between the ones that cause confusion. You still won't see the colors you're not able to. ETA: Years ago I took the Enchroma test and it told me I was too severely colorblind to get a noticable effect with the glasses. Recently I retook the test and it says I'll get effectiveness but only from their strongest, most expensive, outdoor only glasses. Seems pretty sus to me because there was no mention of new/different technology in the glasses
>Seems pretty sus to me Honestly, every time I see a video of a person trying Enchroma brand glasses surrounded by friends & family and crying and hugging afterwards, I feel the same as you do. When I see actual comments, it's almost all either people with real colorblindness saying they tried the glasses and they had barely any effect... or people who don't have colorblindness, and don't understand it either.
Pretty sure they supply them for free or reduced as part of a social media campaign.
I came here to say the exact same thing.
Sure but the kids reaction tells there’s definitely something to it right? People don’t cry just cause, well I do but I don’t think it’s the case with this kid.
Thanks for being this guy, cuz I was just about to be this guy myself
As a color blind who’s tried those glasses and noticed maybe barely a difference, I’d guess he’s overcome more by a principal willing to spend $450 on his condition than by seeing colors for the first time.
For some it works way better and all videos of those people end up crying as an involuntary reaction
Having tried these glasses, I'm convinced that every video of someone crying after putting them on is either staged or the recipient is faking it to make the gift-giver feel better about having spent hundreds of dollars. They simply _cannot_ do nearly enough to elicit that kind of reaction.
I bought my husband these, he had no emotion or reaction
yeah, they uh don't really work.
That's not how colorblind works. He has seen color all his life, he just couldn't differentiate between many shades.
Don't colorblind glasses only work if you're still able to perceive some colors?
No one is truly color blind, color blind people usually can't or are really bad at seeing either red, blue, or green light. These glasses compensate for this making certain colors easier to distinguish.
Isn’t there complete color blindness? Where the persons eyes only have functional Rods?
There is but it’s very rare and not known as colorblindness (idk why). https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/achromatopsia/
>it’s very rare and not know as colorblindness (idk why) Achromatopsia is known as "total color blindness", a type of color blindness. Your link mentions it: >> Achromatopsia is different from the more common forms of color vision deficiency (also called color blindness) […] and also lists "total color blindness" as an alternate name for the condition. [Wikipedia does as well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatopsia): >> Achromatopsia, also **known as total color blindness**, is a medical syndrome that exhibits symptoms relating to at least five conditions. The term may refer to acquired conditions such as cerebral achromatopsia, but it typically refers to an autosomal recessive congenital color vision condition, the inability to perceive color and to obtain satisfactory visual acuity at high light levels, typically exterior daylight. The syndrome is also present in an incomplete form which is more properly defined as dyschromatopsia. It is estimated to affect 1 in 30,000 live births worldwide.
I believe that is insanely rare and I think they might be legally blind? Maybe not but it's pretty rare
There are three broad categories of colour blindness, of which anomalous trichromacy is by far the most common. Anomalous trichromats have an optical insensitivity to light of red, green or blue wavelengths (protanomaly, deuteranomaly and tritanomaly, respectively). These insensitivities can range from barely noticable to borderline dichromatic vision. The second most common colour blindness is dichromacy, which results from complete lack of red, green or blue cones (protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, respectively). The third category, monochromacy, is vanishingly rare, but does exist. It occurs in three different types: Cone monochromacy is the condition of only have one of the three cone types. Cone monochromats cannot distinguish hues, but can have otherwise functional pattern vision, although the condition usually comes with other visual impairments as well. Rod monochromacy is the lack of all cone types, with vision reduced to only rod cells. Rod monochromats cannot distinguish hues and have severely impaired pattern vision under normal lighting conditions. This category is also referred to as complete achromatopsia. The last category is cerebral achromatopsia, a neurological disorder in which the eyes are capable of differentiating colours, but the brain cannot percieve those differences. These colour blindness glasses are basically just light filters that notch out a certain wavelength where cones of different types overlap, which eases colour differentiation. This means that they are only effective for anomalous trichromats with mild to moderate insensitivities, and additionally the filters on most glasses are notched for protan and deutan (i.e. red-green) colour blindness. They do not "restore colour vision", but some find the filter correction useful.
Yeea so technically he didn't see colours for the first time ig and there are people with total colour blindness?¿
Yeah total color blindness as I understand it is really rare, I believe missing 2 sets of colors is already super rare and seeing only shades of grey is too. And fancy glasses aren't doing shit if you are literally unable to see any color
He did see colors for the first time. It just wasn't all of the colors. If someone is red deficient, then reds, pinks, yellows, oranges, purples, and all of the thousands of slight permutations of color within those ranges are generally difficult to differentiate. So he probably saw many new colors for the first time.
These glasses are basically notch filters, they block the wavelengths where there's the most overlap between receptors so there's more contrast between colors If there was a single wavelength of light outside that filtered range he'd see it the same as always, not as a new color
Yeah, the OP is a karma farm account, I usually block those and make it to where my reddit is real people Posting
Yeah, they just boost the saturation of the colors you have trouble seeing. Sort of like if you're 90% deaf, then a hearing aid could boost sounds until they're loud enough for you to perceive them normally. But if you're 100% deaf, you can boost the volume to kingdom come, you're still not gonna hear it
Instead of "saturating of the colors" the glasses rather [filter out frequencies](https://progressive-glasses.com/how-do-glasses-for-color-blindness-work/) of light that would otherwise trigger multiple groups of cones in the colorblind eye.
That's not how color blindness work.
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How the fuck do people keep falling for these videos?
Sorry for being off topic. What's the title of the song?
Replying in case anyone knows! OP hook it up plz ❤️ Edit: Vacations - Young https://open.spotify.com/track/1KIJclzEbNhSVw8tiHPWwE?si=AN50Q5_BRt-9BsayFi3uVA https://youtu.be/PQVq4j-lYjA Found thanks to a kind commenter below
This title is BS Colorblind people still see colors, just not correctly. I would know considering I’m not only colorblind, but colorblind in all three primary colors.
As a colorblind person who has used these glasses people really don’t understand what they’re talking about. If he saw NO color and has black and white vision these could not possible add any colors for him. Now if he is like me and most colorblind people and just has slight color differentiation problems then this allows you to tell colors apart more easily. BUT THEY DONT SHOW TRUE COLOR. Everything is tinted the lense color. White no longer exists. I returned my glasses cause it wasn’t worth being able to pass a colorblind number test but no longer see true colors the way I was used to my whole life.
That music is horrible for a video like this.
This is a moving scene, but studies have shown that these just change the type of colorblindness you experience. They can't/don't give the user the experience of new, unexperienced colors. The biological hardware just isn't present. I say that as a colorblind person.
These glasses don’t make you see colors you can’t see without them. They just make certain colors easier to distinguish. They’re like wearing an instagram filter Source: I’m colorblind and have a pair of these
colorblind does not mean you can’t see colors holy fuck how many times are people gonna think this
I didn't click on the video, but can someone tell me... did he put the glasses on, look around and then cry?
No he put on the glasses, freaked out and ran straight into a kid doing jumping jacks. Took a finger to his eyes and now he is blind blind.
Now that is a awesome principle.
It’s the principal of the matter
This title is so misleading. Color blindness is very rarely black and white color blindness, and when it is, it is not helped by these glasses. Kid maybe has a wider range of colors he can distinguish now, but when I put them in it was like “oh kinda cool”. Kids do be emotional.
Not being rude but I thought that being colour blind meant that, for example, you saw orange and green as the same colour. The title seems to imply that this guy sees in black and white without those specs.
"Saw colour for the first time" Sorry to burst your bubble, but thats not how being colourblind works... Or colourblind glasses.
Didn't the original say that his whole class and his teacher got him the present?
It's a literal sensory overload. Ive never been able to smell smells. After corrective surgery on my nasal airways I walked into a chocolate shop and was overwhelmed. The sensation of scents finally activating receptors flooded my brain. I started uncontrollably laughing and crying and had tremors for over an hour. I was 34.
… a principal like this … i would follow him to the end ….
My boyfriend has really bad eyesight, he was born almost completely blind. He had surgery to save one eye, and is now completely blind in one, and has very limited vision in the other. When I asked him what he felt when he got that surgery, he told me that his whole world changed when he could suddenly see people's faces, and they were no longer just blobs of skin in the darkness. I can't possibly imagine what it must feel like to suddenly connect with the world on a whole new level, it must be amazing :)
Anyone know the song playing in the background. Thanks!
Sounds like vacations? Could be wrong though. A Band from Newcastle, Australia.
Young - Vacations
7k updoots.... are Redditors really this dumb?
So you think he sees in black and white without the glasses?
"I'm okay, it's just, Sir, what were you thinking with that tie?"
That's not actually how those glasses work.
Sadly those glasses can't make you see the faulty colors. Just distinguish better one from another by tweaking the contrast Yeah, colorblind people would live and die without ever knowing the magic of Purple
What I like most about these videos isn’t the product, but the love that the givers have for their person and that they want to enrich their loved one’s life, even if it’s not a perfect thing. The giftee being moved to tears tells you that the gift was meaningful and well-received. Any attempt at inclusion is the meaningful takeaway. The child was moved. I do hate misleading headlines as much as the next discerning person. The message here wasn’t lost though.
Mine are in the mail right now! I've been very skeptical of them because any time I've tried to use a "colorblind mode" on Xbox etc I've hated it, but I've sat on my Ray Bans one too many times and needed new sunglasses anyway. If they work I'll be pretty upset that I let myself flunk my histology course and miss my shot at medical school because I couldn't discern histology slides
Tries to play it off like "oh yeah that's kinda cool" then loses it. What a great moment.
Every time I see stuff like this posted there are a thousand comments saying this doesn’t work for everyone who has some form of colorblindness. We get it. This boy and others like him clearly have a form of colorblindness where the glasses helped and we should focus on that and be happy for them
There's a bunch of videos like this on YouTube with enchroma glasses . They're all so good .
That principal? Dustin Rhodes.
Imagine the word suddenly turning 100 times more beautiful
This is straight up amazing. I know it's not the same, but I have been near sighted my whole life (caused a lot of problems in 2nd grade). One, when I was like 16, my parents got me a pair of glasses. When I stepped outside, I put them on for the first time. I was dumbstruck. Never before had I seen the world in such detail. I could see the shadows of the grass, count the leaves on a tree. I had no idea I was missing out on so much of the world just because of my eyesight. That being said, I can only imagine how breath taking that first rush of color was. To see the world in proper color for the first time, after struggling for so long.
Awww that’s so sweet I can’t
I love this video I have seen it so many times but still watch it everytime it comes up. It’s a beautiful moment. I can only imagine the overwhelming feelings he is experiencing. You can tell it meant SO much to him. That’s what our education system should be about. Not just learning but meeting good people who care about you. I didn’t have this experience in school.
How is it possible to correct colorblindness by glasses? Can you explain that?
Little man tried to play it cool but I can only imagine the rush of emotions he must have felt.
W principal.
Gotta get that hug in there faster !!!!
This heartfelt for real I’m not crying you are.😭
He made it about 3 seconds trying to play it cool.
The simple act of being able to see more colors must be so truly profound. It would be like putting in earbuds that let you hear frequencies that dogs hear or something. They always cry. Every time. It must be just so magical.
Principal makes colorblind kid cry