I am red green colorblind and these glasses have allowed me to get a glimpse into what the world looks like to people with normal vision. The reviews for this product are all over the place and I think this may be because colorblindness itself is an affliction with a broad spectrum of impact. I've been using this product for over a year and I really like it, but can see why people might not because they expect the whole world to look different. I myself have strong protonopia, but people can also have deuternopia or tritanopia and these conditions all have different levels of severity. Below I will describe how I see certain things in the world and how these glasses help, or in some cases, do not help so you can compare with yourself to help determine if they are right for you.
In general I have serious trouble seeing most green, pink, red and purple. Red is shifted heavily to black, purple is dark blue, pink is mostly grey and green is all kinds of different colors. For example:
-The green in traffic lights is actually cream colored to me, almost entirely white. The glasses do not help me with this at all.
-The red in traffic lights is very dark and during the day it is often invisible (often times I think the light isn't working!), the glasses brighten red dramatically and I can actually see the red light very clearly.
-Most grass looks bright yellow or brown. The glasses change this dramatically as I can now tell that grass is green and looks much darker (and better!) with the glasses on.
-Most trees and their leaves look brown or yellow to me. The yellow leaves turn green with the glasses on and a few trees have an absolutely jaw dropping shade of what I guess is green! I now actually get it when people say forests look beautiful cause the color is actually pleasing to look at! Sadly tho, about 70% of trees and plants, mostly the brown ones, stay brown. However, I while I can't see all the true colors I can see differences between plants and trees a lot better instead of just a sea of brown and/or yellow.
-The red in stop signs and on Coca-Cola Packaging is incredibly dark red to me, almost black. With the glasses on, the red pops out dramatically on these things and a lot of other red in the world! I always thought that "bright red" things were rare, now I see they are quite common! Amazing to look at. Ketchup for some reason looks exactly the same with glasses on.
-There is a variation of green I don't see in nature but must be prominent as a lot of people say cars, t-shirts, some painted walls etc are this color. The only example I can find of this is the Philadelphia Eagles uniform. I'm a big fan and my friends talk a lot about the cool green color of the jerseys. They are completely grey to me and the glasses change nothing.
-Pink is another color I struggle with and apparently a lot of flowers have pink in them. Most things that people think are bright pink actually look like red and grey mixed, this is the case with a lot of flowers. With the glasses on some pink jumps out as a very bright color. However, a lot of pink is grey to me and the "grey pink" isn't affected by the glasses.
Special note: If something is green, pink or whatever to someone else and you see it as grey, its likely that you are simply unable to view that color no matter what glasses or enhancements you use. You can try these but your eyes probably lack the necessary cones to see that spectrum of light.
-I still cannot tell the difference between blue and purple with the glasses on. Apparently purple is common in fashion and nature, but its just dark blue to me.
-The sky is still blue with these on. Not a surprise since I have no trouble seeing blue. Although the glasses do for some reason make the sky look richer and less hazy on most days which is nice.
There are so many other instances where these glasses help me notice things I have never seen when out and about in everyday life and when staying home and relaxing out in the yard, watching movies, playing video games, looking at pictures/magazines. However, there are 2 things to keep in mind:
1) Most of the world looks the same! I was expecting profound differences in everything but all the white, black, blue, grey, yellow, and a lot of other colors in the world are exactly the same as they were but with an additional reddish tint (which to be honest can be annoying and is why I don't wear the glasses all the time!)
2) The only practical application of these glasses that I found is daytime driving (its too dark to use them at night sadly, because they would be very helpful there too since traffic lights really blend in with city ones to me!). However, it does help with navigating traffic signals immensely.
While not "practical" these are nice to have around for other reasons. Its always interesting to see how most people in the world see things and these glasses make a lot of things look brighter and nicer so I also take them along when viewing any area with a lot of plants and even city environments which I've found have a lot of red in their art, ads etc.
In terms of value, these glasses are less than half the price of their competition and the sellers have very forgiving return policies. I wish they came with a case, but I've gotten by just fine in the past year without one. I know the glasses are expensive but if you are colorblind in a fashion similar to me and have the money to spare, I recommend at least trying them. You probably won't wear them every day, but you can likely see some things you would forever miss without them!
Hope this review helps! I'll update if I notice anything else and am happy to answer questions.
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I purchased these Color Correction Glasses several months ago to see if they would help compensate for my mind red/green colorblindness, and I find that I'm pretty happy with them, although I found the price I paid somewhat steep (I paid the much higher price from before the price drop, the new price is great!). I have difficulty reading charts and graphs that use red and green, and with things like reading electronic resistor color codes, and the glasses do help significantly with these tasks.When wearing the glasses I find that greens are very much suppressed, so the natural world takes on a drab, brownish cast. Red things like flowers definitely pop out more, appearing very orange. I'm much more able to distinguish between red and green, which is great when I need to read a problematic chart, but it is obvious that I'm not seeing colors 'better', just differently. The suppression of green means that yellow and aqua suffer. Aqua is much more blue, and yellow looks more like orange. While wearing the glasses I'm able to easily read all Ishihara plates. Normally I am unable to see most of the red/green test plates.In general, for me, with mild red-green colorblindness, I think the glasses have good utility when I'm dealing with situations where I find red/green color problems, but they definitely don't make the colors of the natural world more enjoyable. The sort of brownish appearance of vegetation is not very pleasing, but it is cool to be able to see red flowers really jump out of the background.Construction is good, the glasses are light-weight and comfortable to wear, and they seem sturdy enough. I haven't had any problem with scratching of the lenses, they seem about as resistant to fine scratches as you'd expect good quality plastic lenses to be. They come with a protective bag that will prevent scratches during storage.I took a photo of a solar spectrum with and without the glasses. It's completely non-scientific and uncalibrated, and the color rendering of the monitor it is viewed with has a large impact, but for the curious it can give a bit of an idea of how this color filter works. You can see where green is suppressed and how it changes the perception of the nearby colors (though, again, while it is similar, what you see here is very distorted from what you would see while wearing the glasses, the sensor in the camera, digital encoding process, and reproduction in the monitor all have limitations that can be misleading in images like this).
