If selling false hope wasn’t profitable, there would be a lot of companies (and religions) go out of business.
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echodot@feddit.uk 4 days agoI don’t get how anyone thought they would work. If your color blind they obviously don’t magically alter the receptors in your eyes.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
psud@aussie.zone 4 days ago
If they had worked they might have done so by some sort of contrast enhancement or edge detection, but I don’t think either are possible with just optics
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Yes you could absolutely do it with a camera and a computer screen and some software but I can’t see how glass or plastic lenses could possibly be expected to do it
psud@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I just watched the megalag videos on the glasses — the first episode of three — and the claim is they cut out confusing areas of colour that abnormal chromats see.
So if it worked, it only works for people with abnormal versions of one of the three normal colour vision sensors, and only if their deficiency is in green, and then only if it’s the correct degree of deficient
But it doesn’t work anyway.
The glasses help people see the number in some sheets in the colourblindness test, but hide the number in others. Their colour blindness would appear slightly worse than reality.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You could do AR glasses. And with just optics, you could probably adjust some color spectrums a bit, provided you knew the exact deficiency and which way to adjust colors.
But yeah, no one size fits most situation here.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You mean these X-Ray specs don’t actually let me see thru anything?!
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Colourblindness knows many types, most can still see color.
At least on paper it seems plausible to measure the cones per iris and then build a filter to strengthen color that is lacking.
The moment i realized they sold them without detailed personal eye scanning involved i knew they were a scam. Gimmick at best. Worst part is they seem catered to people as gifts for colorblind friends, thats just a way to obstruct people from analyzing them to much. What are they going to say? “I dont for a sec believe this overly saturated view is realistic and your gift sucks”? No the will say “wauw thank you” and shove it in a drawer somewhere next day, never to mention them again.