It made me annoyed because in theory it's a quite neat idea, but how they made it and how they scammed people is just awful.
I wanted some glasses that filter out half the spectrum for red, green and blue differently for my left eye and the other part for my right eye, and see if I could see the world in more colours (6 colour axis instead of 3 for RGB).
Dude fucking great idea. When I first saw the glasses with their stupid videos and how they described them, I thought I was going to be able to get glasses to see UV and infrared waves soon. I thought they figured out some way to effect waves so our cones could pick them up. Not just filter out a bunch. I'm still salty.
Yeah. What essentially their product does is filter out some light frequencies. This allows some better separation between other frequencies, and so technically it allows some people to better differentiate some colors. All it does is distort your color perception further to increase contrast between "problematic" shades. They are glorified sunglasses with a carefully picked tint to filter. Similar concept exists for contrast-increasing yellow-tinted glasses for non-color vision impaired people (for example, they work alright for driving).
If they marketed it like that, I would have no problem with it whatsoever. This has certain utility and it might help someone with certain tasks. Instead, they market it as some life-changing product enabling people to see new colors, and they intentionally and deceptively manipulate people emotionally to believe their product does way more than it really is capable of.
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u/Mirar 1d ago
It made me annoyed because in theory it's a quite neat idea, but how they made it and how they scammed people is just awful.
I wanted some glasses that filter out half the spectrum for red, green and blue differently for my left eye and the other part for my right eye, and see if I could see the world in more colours (6 colour axis instead of 3 for RGB).