I took introductory physics for two semesters. Learned about how light works and how our eyes see it. Even though the scam was obvious to me, seeing actual scientists back up the BS in this marketing to an audience of millions of people was truly eye opening, not for me, but hopefully for a lot of others. Although I'm not colorblind, I really appreciate your explanation on how it's not really a lifechanging cripple but just a small inconvenience. Thank you for your journalism, mate!
@@Brixster Are all journalism is left for private? I mean not putting it towards you. Where the hell is the reporters and journalist who actually studied and report such scams.
@@Brixster for me it was the fact that no colorblind ppl in real life use them. I once heard a doctor in a marketing lecture say, if gimmicky products like these worked either everyone would be using them, or the company would be charging a lot more money for the product and trying to bill insurance.
My dad was red/green colour blind. He died around 5 years ago. One regret I had was that I never bought these colour-blind glasses for him to try, as it was something I was aware of, but never got around to. The regret has come to me several times over the years since his passing. This video is actually giving me relief, in a way. Thanks
A friend of mine is a lapidary, he cuts thousands of precious and non precious gems stones for a living.. he is colorblind and relies on the subtle differences in the shades. He didn’t want to try the glasses, he knew they were bogus,
I have a friend with the same condition. I wanted to buy him those glasses but never got to do so... I kept thinking about it.. Until watching this video. 🤷♂
Wow...I'm sorry about your dad, but I'm so happy that you got a chance to get that weight off of your shoulders! I totally understand what you mean. It's the kind of thing that I would beat myself up about, too. And now you can relieve yourself of that. Remember your dad for who he was, not what you didn't do for him. He wouldn't want that for you.
So this is awkward. I found this video looking for reviews on these glasses so that I could buy a pair as a Christmas present for a family member. Thank you for saving me the money. This is shocking!
they're total bullshit in most cases but as a sailor, they do help me distinguish between red and green lights, at night, at a distance. They also help me tell the difference between red and green charging LEDs.
I think that's how they make money. I'm pretty sure it's people who aren't colorblind buying those glasses for others. People who are colorblind and see those reaction videos instantly know it's fake.
I'm red green colourblind. I didn't get the famous ones but i did get them. They work but you don't see colour the way others do. It just darkens the green and lightens the red. It's easier to distinguish the colours from each other
yeah but the problem is that isnt what they are advertising. if you like it thats great, but the immediate color correction they got in the reaction videos is almost completely false.
From the people I've spoken to your experience is what most of them reported. You don't suddenly "see" the colour but can now more easily distinguish them with some training.
I'm grateful that my science teacher in high school told me that it's my missing cone inside my eyes that causes me not see color correctly. So no matter what color layer put in front of me, my eyes can't process it, therefore no fancy glasses can fix it.
And I am one of the rare few who can see all the colors perfectly. I took two tests and got identical perfect scores. I did not mess up on a single color. I don't even know what normal is because I am also abnormal.
@@ShastasnowWhat? There is no such thing. Unless you are talking about tetrachromacy, which is having 4 cones instead of the normal 3. If that's the case, then it's still weird because you make it sound like you have 3 cones.
@@ferociousmaliciousghost I say it is weird to be the only artist in my year to pass the color tests perfectly yet I still have terrible vision. I am blind as a bat without glasses 😅🤓
I think it’s weird that enchroma tells you to give it a few weeks for your eyes to adjust to the glasses but all the videos and even enchroma’s advertisements have an instant reaction from the participants
It can take some time for the eyes and brain to adjust to something altering the eye-to-brain feedback process, but a couple weeks? That's a bit much if you're wearing them consistently. Even the brains of people wearing glasses that made everything UPSIDE DOWN only took 10 days to adjust so they could see right-side-up with the glasses on.
Also they advertise "guaranteed to help you see color and thousands of hues for the first time", but then say it doesn't work for all forms of color blindness
If there isn’t already, There should be a special classification of fraud that goes after medical diseases and people’s desperations. But then I guess most pharmaceutical companies would get caught in the crossfire too.
I just can't believe this is fake! Usually I have a pretty good sense for filtering out scams and lies online. I really thought this works because how would you not get sued if it doesn't work!?
As someone who bought the enchroma glasses, here's what i got: I have protanopia and its given me issues since my teachers tried to teach me colors in preschool. So when I learned about these glasses, I jumped at the opportunity. What i found is that these glasses DID help me differentiate colors like blue vs. purple, but as stated in the video, it made some colors I could see HARDER to tell apart. It made many colors prettier or more vibrant than my normal vision, but not accurate. In addition, the glasses seem to only work well outside and it aways took about 10 minutes for my eyes to adjust. In conclusion, these glasses are a cool gimmick that cost hundreds of dollars and are shrouded in dishonesty.
Polarizers do the same thing to make colors more vivid by reducing sun glare. It’s a big thing for videographers and photographers to put on polarizing filters to get better color.
That just sounds like applying a colored filter on your glasses, which helps you see similar colors better and block some of the sunlight, but fucks up other aspects. Hey, that sounds like sunglasses.
Going through some other comments and the video itself I find that the glasses is like "advanced sunglasses" or not even. Roughly speaking they just apply 2 or more colors on a lens/combine multiple colored lens togetger to create 2-shades sunglasses. Ngl I would wear that to a party.
I agree. I have protopania and was bought these by my brother. It makes red "pop" more, but also puts a tint on every thing else making those colors less accurate. I never wear them anymore and I felt bad about it because they weren't cheap, but they did almost nothing so... Atleast I know why now.
@@rexplorer.official I'm deutan and for me, a polarizing filter is just one component. Looking at a rainbow normally, if I'm lucky I can distinguish maybe 3 colors max. With basic polarized lenses, I might get 4. But with polarized and amber tinted lenses, I can see 5 or 6.
My girlfriend surprised me with these glasses, and after putting them on I got pretty emotional. I have monochromacy so they didn't do anything, but after looking at the price I just couldn't hold back the tears. 300 frickin dollars... Why!! 😭
So glad your channel is about to go to the moon. Just found your channel via the amazing Honey video, and it looks like it wasn’t a fluke. Keep up the great work! You’re doing a huge service to humanity with your investigative videos! 🤝
I actually bought some enchroma glasses (refurb so far cheaper than new) for my partner a number of years back, but I never promised him full colour vision or the ability to see hues he'd never seen before After researching it myself I figured the main benefit was that he might be able to tell some greens and reds apart that previously would have been identical, like separating them to remove some overlap. Overall I suspected his entire range of colour vision might even be reduced slightly, but widening the gap between green and red was the goal And... it worked He was never reduced to tears, didn't see new colours, but he was able to finally spot red flowers in a green bush. He could also see the difference between lush green grass and dead brown grass which would blend together previously, and contrast in general seemed to be improved. For 4 years they've been his favourite pair of sunglasses I feel like they genuinely had a good product but just completely stuffed the marketing big time. Lower expectations, be real on what they do and charge less - I bet it still would have succeeded just slower and less extreme
yeah, the produce does 'work' but not in the way they describe it. color correcting glasses is like the added sugar in lemonade. it helps bring out the flavor of the lemon and masking the natural unwanted bitterness of some lemons. just as the glasses helps remove the overlapping wavelength for the certain color cones, letting people distinguish what is already present. but the marketing is saying it lets people see colors that weren't present before. its like saying adding sugar to lemon juice makes it grape juice. i do think encroma and other companies are liable for flagrant false advertisement but not so much as a being complete scam.
You're exactly right. I have a friend that is a full time animator. He would struggle at times having to ask co-workers "is this supposed to be green or yellow? I can't tell." And if it's digital, he would have to use the eye dropper tool to find the hex value, then google that hex value to find the name of the color associated with it. Since he has had the EnChromas glasses, he no longer has to do any of that. Sure, he may not be seeing everything perfectly, but he is able to create his art much more easily than he did before. He always has them on while he's working now.
@@fumoffu_l "he would have to use the eyedropper then google the hex code to learn the name of the colour" it's amazing, the workarounds that technology has provided us with.
As I understand it, the theory behind these is that most people with deuteranopia (the most common type of colour blindness) still have three kinds of cone cells (red, green and blue), but the red and green ones have more overlap in their wavelength sensitivity than normal. What the glasses are supposed to do is selectively block out the wavelengths that overlap, which makes distinguishing certain colours easier but obviously changes their tone. So they by definition make you see FEWER colours, not more, but with potentially more clarity. I find it interesting how this directly contradicts one of the experts interviewed in the preview at the end of this video (18:45), but maybe that is just out of context and she's talking about a different kind of colour blindness.
This is super depressing but I can't help myself from laughing at the irony that there's a common saying everyone knows about looking through rose tinted glasses and that is exactly what they're selling. Rose tinted glasses
I actually have them. And I'm actually ridiculously colorblind. They actually worked for me. It wasn't dramatic, but I saw purple for the first time. If you have the money, they are worth a shot, but it won't cure the issue.
@@Geo-FaFavery true. The issue was the marketing tbh saying it’s a “cure” when it really is just an enchancement/crutch to help colorblind people see a little better
@@devlintaylor9520 If what you want to do is see purple, than seeing purple when you would like to would be working. The problem is not that the product does nothing, its just that it exaggerates its claims. Dont do the same shit in the opposite way lol
I bought these for my son who is severely color blind. Glasses did absolutely nothing for him. Total scam. Thank you for putting this out there to hopefully prevent others from being scammed.
So sorry that there are scummy companies like this that take advantage of your love for your child. What you wanted to do was beautiful and I hope that the money they scammed from you and others brings them no joy and they end up choking on it!!!!!!
I've used a few. The ones I use are definitely an improvement, I'll never see right, but I have 6 family members that have the same deuteranopia type of colorblindness. 4 of them tried them, the other 2 didn't want to which is fair, but the ones who did had the same experience as me. I ain't trying to sell ya shit, but the ones I use make a crazy difference. Ie many video games to this day don't have a colorblind option and these have made em playable, oh plus wow they make anime way better
@@lightseyedea763Glad you had a positive experience. Personally, after wasting money on a pair that did nothing, I'm now not buying anything my optician doesn't sell or recommend
As a colorblind person who got the glasses years ago… things were much different.. I know colors I just don’t see them the same way others do… so with the glasses it completely changed many colors…example purple.. way different than I normally see it… so what’s the big difference.. when I describe a color without the glasses it makes no sense to people for example pink and grey are almost the same color.. with the glasses no where near each other.. grey is bland while pink feels like candy.. orange and beige … almost the same color … with the glasses no where near the same… beige is more of a light brown while orange reminds me of a lighter red…I simply tell people my life is the wizard of oz… with the glasses it feels like the scene where the color is turned on.. it’s actually overwhelming so I tend to not wear them often
Exact same experience for me. It let's me distinguish some more easily, while making it harder to tell others apart. It takes me from protanomaly to deuteranomaly, according to the tests
I just took the test on enchroma and got normal color vision, and they still claim that "But, our Outdoor Deutan lenses can boost your color perception even more!" 💀
Well, to be fair I think, *if* they *could* fix colorblindness to full color, I'm sure they could add a 4th too, as tetrachromancy is a thing in humans, albeit rare.
Yeah, I feel you! My dad passed away some years ago, but had he been alive, I probably would've seriously considered buying these as a gift, just to see his reaction. His colorblindedness had turned into like a small inside joke between us because of how/where I found out and I teased him. Basically his biggest thing was his inability to see green & greenish-blue. He'd usually either see them as brown or blue. His two favorite shirts were green but apparently he had no idea until I told him right when I found out he couldn't see green, which was when I was 19 out to dinner with him and a friend lmao. Same with wine bottles; he had always been huuugely into wine, even had a collection with extremely expensive wines, like we're talking bunches of $ five-figure bottles of wine. Despite being *that* into wines his whole life, he had always thought the bottles were brown, not green, lol. Honestly it was a great night, and *so* funny. I would've instantly bought him a pair if I'd believed they'd work, if anything just to see what he'd say when he finally saw what his shirts truly looked like! 😂
he still see's color just not the way you do, its why when someone buys a car cause they like the color regardless of what it is others will say "why would you buy a car that color?"
@@perry92964that’s not completely true. Depends on the type of color blindess. Some people really CAN’T distinguish two or more colors - in fact not seing on of the other😊
The FTC is asleep at the wheel. So are many other consumer protection agencies. I imagine it’s because most of the regulatory bodies are underfunded and understaffed
The FTC barely has sufficient funding to emplyoy enough people to do a quarter of their "required" work. Their basically there so the government can say, _No look we tried, we made the FTC!_ shit rolls down hill fr.
Republicans keep funding and trying to close down consumer protection agencies like the ftc. Same with the IRS funding to go after the millionaire tax cheats with offshore tax Havens. The problem is a lot of people listen to Fox News and either don't know or believe the Republican lies. It's easy enough to check, most people are just too lazy.
@@SaintShionmeanwhile money is just missing at the pentagon, and we overpaid billions of dollars to ukraine and told them to just keep it. Then again, i doubt the FTC would be much more useful even if funded properly because the government is horrible and inefficient.
I have been posting criticism of the “see color for first time” language in comments sections of these gullible articles for years. I have never received a response or request for clarification. Same for colorblindness forums when someone asks about these glasses. I finally gave up. Thank you for not giving up! The glasses can have very specific positive uses, but they don’t improve anyone’s quality of life.
I'm also red-green color-blind. My wife got me a pair of Enchroma years ago. It was all a secret, she paid hundreds for them at a time when hundreds was a huge deal for us. She made up an excuse to go to Home Depot and look at the paint section. There she presented them to me. Tears were had, but not from me. They didn't do a damn thing. She was really hoping it would work, I felt bad for her. Luckily she was able to return them. I was one of the many who figured "guess I'm just not lucky enough for these to work", didn't know how big of a deal this really is. As for now, I'll still have to keep calling her over to distinguish colors when I'm working on wiring harnesses lol. Great video, excited to see the outcome of it all!
I am sure there are plenty of apps that can tell you the color of something you point your camera at. You can use something like that instead of calling her over. Unlike the glasses this actually works.
Even being able to receive the money back, nothing pays for the disappointment that you both must had felt. I can't imagine how sad this was for her, that made a big effort in terms of time, money and expectations on this gift.
They're supposed to work outdoors in the uv light. Colors are more vivid when I use these glasses. I always assumed the reaction videos were fake because it took my eyes about 15 minutes to adjust, after the first time it was pretty instant. I'm not sure what I see when I use the enchroma glasses but again colors did pop out more vividly. When my wife looks at the images that show what colorblind people see she says my view looks sun washed among the loss of colors. The glasses I guess take away the sun washed view.
Fun fact: i did the test on their website, i have normal color vision. It correctly identified me as having normal color vision. They tried to sell me the deutan glasses anyways. Because it would let me see *even more* color. Weird.
I have perfect color vision, scoring a zero on the x-rite color hue test. Took the enchroma test and they did the same thing. Wild. Some people have zero shame.
I did the test on enchroma, and the first time it said it "Sorry, we cannot conclude your test result." (Yeah, sure.) There was a link to restart the test, (Interesting!) and then it identified me as Protan. Then I did the test on pilestone. Mild Deutan.
Thanks for making this. As a person with color blindness, people have been telling me about these glasses since they came out, but based on my own experiences and how I know colorblindness works I knew they weren’t being truthful about what their products could do. So glad someone else is calling them out.
I'm colorblind, and I got colorblind glasses to see if they did anything. I got the flip-up ones because they were cheaper and I didn't want to waste too much money. They just change colors from one color to another. The sky turned from blue to pink, which I know is wrong. It was autumn in New England so I put them on to look at the trees. I saw more shades of colors in the trees, but I didn't trust them to be right. I never saw any brand new colors that I didn't know existed, though.
@@derrynh-NEI feel you. Im not colorblind but I've also never eaten plasmatic ions. Like those present in the sun. And I lack the capability to detect neutrinos. So yeah I'm basically disabled
From my understanding the best they can do is shift colors so that they're more in the range of what you can see so that you can tell apart colors that you couldn't otherwise. But that comes at the cost of making the colors wrong because you have to push a wider spectrum in a smaller one. There's no way that glasses magically make you actually see more colors. It's like shifting infrared and ultraviolet into visible colors because humans can't see that in general
As someone who has severe color blindness and the enchroma glasses this was my personal experience: I tried them on for the first time on a hike and I was honestly surprised. For me, what the glasses did was make colors much more realistic, and it made it MUCH easier to distinguish between color schemes and by making each individual color “pure”, instead making all the colors ambiguous. When I take my enchromas off, that’s when I realize how color blind I really am because the color scheme looks completely off without them. Honestly though, I was expecting better. I can’t perfectly see colors, but I’d still say that they allow me to see colors in a way which I’d never experienced before. Overall though, I estimate the glasses fix my color blindness by approximately 20-30%, which is not a fix by any means but still a huge improvement. TDLR: the glasses emphasize color differences very well and allow me to distinguish colors better, but don’t expect them to cure your color blindness.
I called BS on these from day one. The people around me called me a grumpy curmudgeon because I didn't believe the videos, especially after hearing that it works by filtering OUT color. My friends got me a pair as a gift and were upset when I didn't break into tears like the videos. At which point some of them started accusing me of faking being colorblind. Or that I was faking them doing nothing to prove a point. They couldn't wrap their heads around the possibility that the videos on the internet were lying, not me.
I've known I'm colorblind since around 16 years old. A few years later I was applying to the LAPD, and during my physical, they perform color-blind testing, they make you line up the little cups too (so frustrating). I was telling all of the clinical staff that I knew I was color blind, but I had to do the test anyway. At the end of the physical testing, the physician came in and gave me my results. He say's " I'm sorry to tell you this"...I think he's going to tell me something is wrong with my heart or something...."you're colorblind" I couldn't help but laugh, he made it seem like he was giving me a terminal diagnosis
one of my exes was red-green colorblind and i think these were just coming out when i was dating him. i was younger and didnt understand the science behind colorblindness so i almost gave it a try until i asked more questions and paid more attention to him. his favorite color was red, his favorite decorative holiday was christmas. he didnt "not see red", he just saw it different-- as shades of brownish yellow. and the brain knows what colors belong where due to context clues most of the time, especially if one's eyes are particularly keen to contrast levels. he wouldnt struggle to pick out apples between red or green because he knows that red apples have richer colors than green apples most of the time. he can tell the difference between red and green together because his brain just identifies these particular shades as "i've seen this on an object only known to be red, so this is probably also that color if it looks exactly the same." ya know, kinda like most people would with colors.
My parents got me a pair, I felt too bad to tell them they did very little other than adding a little saturation, I like them though, makes things look less grey but price is just a plain scam
On the bright side, you have amazing parents! It’s an incredibly thoughtful gift. Just a shame they advertise them as something they’re not. But at least you still like them
Yeah that always sucks when someone buys you a gift that was falsely advertised or just doesn't work and you don't want to make them feel bad or feel like a sucker
I can't imagine being a kid thinking I'm about to see color for the first time in my life, only to be devastated once you actually put the glasses on. Would be absolutely crushing. Poor kids
I'm colourblind. We still see colour. We're just missing lots of them. I got the glasses and was expecting everything to be almost neon. They made a difference for me. They're not perfect but they let me see purple for the first time. They make reds stand out, separate pinks and greys, add a lot more shades of green. I've seen cartoon rainbows that always have distinctive stripes, in real life I used to just see 2 stripes, with the glasses a see them all, bit still not entirely sure what colours they are
@@kris2384... - But your not actually seeing new colors. The glasses might shift the frequency of the light passing through them around a bit, but that will inevitably affected the colors you could already see as well, so maybe you can see what should be purple in a way you couldn't before, but you will lose something somewhere else to make that gain. It's certainly possible these trade offs are still an overall positive, but to say anyone is seeing colors they couldn't see before is just wrong.
@@Faladrin You're correct, they wouldn't be seeing the actual colors, but likely only just seeing differences between light and dark better. If your body is missing the color receptors there is nothing you can do about it, you'll never really see the full color range unless they can change your eyeballs out and even then your brain probably isn't wired for it due to that part of the brain not being used.
I have blue light filtering glasses that i wear all the time, and they do help differentiate browns and greens easier, but i think thats because the yellow tint makes the greens brighter. Nothing scientific, but something ive noticed that helps. I cant imagine how a bright red tint would help at all though.
I have at least 5 friends who have colorblindness. Years ago one of them tried one of these glasses and they said "I would rather not having eyes than wearing these.. whatever they are" They told that to relatives and others but no one really listen to him, some even thought he was being ungrateful. The glasses did bring tear to his eyes... for how it insult him and his trust.
@@shaynelowe9604 No..? They literally thought he was just ungrateful rather than assuming that perhaps the glasses themselves were a problem. Ignorance is not thinking that a pair of glasses are right over someone you know.
You should've done the colorblind test from their website with their glasses on. It would be funny if they still diagnosed you with colorblindness in contrast to their own claims hahaha.
I took it with normal vision and they still tried to sell me glasses lol. Also, their test has a toggle that you enable if you're using their glasses, I assume enabling that toggle would bullshit the test to make it appear to work. My guess is it's there so they can say "see it works!" and if you don't toggle it they can say "no, you did the test wrong".
If you select the toggle that says "I'm wearing enchroma glasses", their test seems to skip over the hardest tests and doesn't do the control at all where it shows an empty circle
I didn't get an empty circle OR an "I'm wearing enchroma glasses" toggle but that didn't stop them from trying to sell me their "Outdoor Deutan lenses" which "can boost your colour perception even more" when I got a perfect score 🙃
@@MegaLag its just a circle that instead of having two different colors has the same color or no number at all, enchroma's test is randomized though so chances are you didn't get it
I took the enChroma test and my results came that I have no color blindness, but was still advertised to buy glasses that would increase vibrancy outdoors. They really want money regardless if you are color blind or not.
Yeah, I took the enChroma test and the results were normal (not colorblind), then took Pilestone test (competitor) and got mild deutan color blindness every time, even though I could clearly see the number on every slide without trouble (there is no way I didn't get 100% correct). So I took several more tests from different sites that were not trying to sell me glasses, with several types of different colorblind tests, and all tests came back normal no color blindness.
They are missing out on a huge market. I, like you, suffer from seeing color. They need to make some contact lenses that make us see the world as someone who is color blind would. Then we could buy the glasses to fix the color blindess caused by the contacts.
Orange, yellow or pink glasses can really ramp up contrast in certain light conditions like twilight or heavy snow. But, I think, colour perception could somewhat suffer with them.
To be fair, my enchroma sunglasses are the best sunglasses I've ever worn. They do help a few colors stand out as green that look white to me without them (confirmed with non-colorblind folks that it is in fact green).
@@niko7903 For the pilestone test, the first time I took also said I am deutan color blind, but then I found sometimes after you go to the next question it shows the same number but after a second or so it change to another, if I wait a few seconds for each question to make sure I didn't answer before it changes then my result is normal. My guess is if you click too fast before the display updates they will count you as wrong. It is all due to bad programming on their side.
@@mrdoesntmatter9202 very true. i imagine most people aren't aware that there are something like 7 different types of colorblindness (if i'm remembering correctly).
I suspect some of the influencers reviewing the glasses may not be lying per se; it might just be psychosomatic. We humans are highly suggestible creatures.
@@AnimeFreak40K I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see. The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem. 1. Price, they are massively ovepriced 2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked 3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this. Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons. Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over. The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING. Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP. THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!! Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*. Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior. Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
Ok but if you ignore the fact that people are getting scammed it's actually kinda funny that color correct people have gaslit colorblind people into thinking we see everything like we're in a Doom Eternal level
Hi, I am tritanopia type color blind and husband got me correcting glasses (not the brand you mentioned here). It shifted the hues so that green and blue looked completely different, or pink and yellow (colors I can’t distinguish next to each other). It basically made blues intense and the greens stayed subtle, so it made me see the difference BUT I didn’t suddenly see colors. I’m not sure if it makes sense. It was underwhelming and a waste of 80$, but I use them sometimes if I need to for work.
As someone who is red-green colorblind, I own a pair of corrective glasses that can help me distinguish between tones of colors with reds and greens in them. While the glasses cannot make me perceive colors that I have never seen before, they do help me to see a difference in the color without relying on shape recognition. Without the glasses, I can only see the red strawberries that are not partially covered by a leaf. My brain recognizes the shape and "fills in" what I believe to be red. If the berries are partially covered, it's harder to recognize the shape and it just "blends in" with the green of the leaves. However, if I wear the glasses, it makes reds more vivid and greens more distinct, to the point where I can see a difference in the color. But the glasses also affect all colors I can see, and some colors that I really like become dull and unpleasant. For example, a bright red will change to orange for me. However, blue becomes way more intense, which I like. While this doesn't necessarily change my life, it is a way to alter my perception of the world that can sometimes come in handy.
I have had a similar experience with my Pilestones. The video of people getting choked up HAVE to be staged. It mostly makes everything rose-tinted. That said, I DO do slightly better on the tests, and it has helped me get a little more used to what color things are supposed to be. E.g. Green traffic likes look green, so it's reprogramed my brain to see them as more green instead of off-white.
Your story sounds exactly like mine. I didn't realize I was colorblind until psychology class in college when I was the only student who couldn't see the hidden number in the test. Fast forward 10 years when my coworker bought $400 enchroma glasses for his dad only to realize his dad isn't colorblind, lol. He let me try them before returning. Not only did nothing happen, the instructions said it could take months of wearing them to notice a change. I assume those months of wearing lands you outside of their return policy.
I was thinking that precisely-- they want you to wait just long enough so that you can't return them. Though according to the reviews, it's tough to get a refund anyway
They function entirely on the fact that (for example) a red light and a blue light both result in purple combined light, but there is also purple wavelength light that is perceived as exactly the same purple colour, but has neither red nor blue wavelengths. That’s why a kid knows what orange looks like (he has seen true orange wavelength light before) even though a different object that we see as orange might look yellow to him because that particular object is not really reflecting orange wavelengths but rather red and yellow wavelengths that we are perceiving as orange in combination. Maybe he cannot perceive the deep red wavelength, only the yellow. Whereas an object that is truly only reflecting specifically orange wavelengths is not affected by his inability to see deep red.
This video needs to get more attention! As a colorblind photographer, I have been thinking about buying enchroma glasses many times, but just couldn't get myself to spend that much money, especially as I was already doubting their true ability to help (as your receptors will not begin to see new colors). Thanks for proofing my concers and helping others save money!
I'm not even colorblind but I've known this for a long time. On their website, I remember it even saying that these glasses only strengthen the contrast within the range of already perceived colors.
I actually had an art teacher who had these glasses. He said that while it didn't fix how he saw color it did help him distinguish different shades of paint so I guess it's just expectations
If that was the claim they made I'd agree, but since they claim to let you see new colors it's pretty scamy. I'm colorblind and being able to differentiate colors would be nice sometimes, not $300 nice, but maybe $50 nice lol.
The video talks about this. Some shades are easier to distinguish while others become much harder to tell apart. So it's likely your art teacher was seeing some shades as the same and not realizing it. In the end, these glasses likely dont really help anyone much at all.
If your issue is red green, wearing red tinted glasses will force greens duller and reds brighter before they hit your eyes. So you can recognize them by their saturation rather than their actual colour.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 it's been years but I thought they were very conservative about expectations. They said your vision would not be as good as a normal person. And they definitely said that it was only going to help people with moderate to mild color deficiency. The viral marketing on the other hand was over the top
@@CRneunah, you try things with the glasses on and off. Flowers and trees become much easier to distinguish for me. They're absolutely not a silver bullet. They aren't giving you new colors. But it's really nice to see the difference sometimes
As a kid, I never understood how such a thing could possibly work, I was really into science and had read up on how light works and how eyes perceive them, I didn't understand how glasses could somehow correct a biological issue, and inability to perceive colors normally, it didn't make sense and just passed it off as some not worth looking into. I was right to be skeptical, you'd have to literally replace your eyes, or have your brain rewired in some extreme cases. I'd imagine in the future, surgery could possibly correct it, but we're not close to that now. It's sickening, can you imagine if this scam was for something else, a more severe issue, like being completely blind? a company that claimed to cure blindness and didn't would almost certainly be shut down
The fact people lie about colour corrective solutions annoys me to no end, I’m colourblind and because of that, 2 (or more) important areas of the rail industry that I would love to work in, I can’t. I can’t pursue my dream job because of it and people make money of claiming to fix it but not delivering is infuriating
Just lie about it. If they test your vision you can just be like 'oh fuck I had no idea.' But they're not going to, and it won't come up in work, and if it does, chances are you'll have coworkers who can help.
@@coldravioli7839 to get the required rail medical, you need to pass a test (ask me how I know) and to be a driver or signaller, you don't have someone next to you to tell you the colours
Yeah, it is. But I also think the requirements for a totally "normal" colour perception are too strict. Of course, if the world literally looks black and white to you I can understand why you can't become a pilot/captain/train driver, but most so-called colour blind people have no problems discerning between blue, red, yellow and green lights, so I believe it's wrong to simply dismiss applicants on the grounds of a failed Ishihara test only. It's not like it's a tiny minority who are affected (amongst males, at least.) Many years ago I read about an American pilot who, knowing he had a colour deficiency, found out what test set was used and then purchased the exact same set and learned it by heart before going to the be tested, but I don't know if that's feasible anymore.
Social media and the desire to be influential are really ruining a lot of things. You can't really believe anything you see on social media because there is a constant race to the bottom. Everyone justifies lying because it's so pervasive and they don't see anything wrong with it because so many folks are doing it. For me personally, as soon as I see someone promoting any brand whatsoever, I unfollow and block them. That completely taints my ability to trust them.
What's hilarious is that I have normal color vision, tested as having normal color vision on the Enchroma test and they still marketed the glasses to me as a way to "Make my color vision more vibrant".
The best proof this doesn't work is the lack of people who keep wearing them after the initial unboxing videos. Fantastic video, and I'm defs curious to check out more of your content 😄
I bought my glasses at colordrop. I couldn‘t spot any new color but it helped me to spot red purple and blue tones better. I have protanopia. The Main reason i can‘t wear them all the time is because of the sunglass look people creeping out if im wearing them indoor and it also it decrease the brightness. So in mainly using them if i want to check my paintings of some odd used color or if i get feedback that something is odd. @MegaLag I would be interested how do you color correct and detecting issues resulting from your Deuteranopia
Color blind dude here... my loving wife got me a pair a few years ago. Thankfully, they had a full refund trial available. They were reboxed that same morning.
Damn. I fell for this. I mean, I am not colorblind. I can read all the numbers in those diagrams, but I guess I wanted it to be true for the colorblind people.
Exactly! There is no magic product to help me see the colors and shades I can't. Even special corrective video game display settings don't work at all.
I have normal color vision. Every time I’ve ever taken an independent color vision test, I ace it. Whenever I do the enchroma test, I get a result of “mild green color blindness” It’s almost as though they just want people to buy their product and aren’t remotely interested in actually helping people.
Maybe the display you used just has bad colors or something? I just did the enchroma test like 5 times in a row to test what you're saying, it said "normal vision" every time.
Some of the pictures at the end have super low contrast ie same level of saturation/ luminosity which makes it harder to tell the number in it even though the hues are different. I got normal vision probably only bc I'm use to those games where you spot something camoflaged in there
I feel like it's easy for people's minds to draw parallels to something like hearing aids, where just sticking a little device in your ear suddenly makes hearing better. When in reality, hearing aids are not a passive filter like these glasses, but rather an active amplifier/filter combination, and nowadays with quite sophisticated DSP built in thats able to be tuned to specific deficiencies amongst other neat features (bluetooth and what-not). And all this to say, if you are completely deaf, no amount of SPL will be able to overcome that. After a point, you're just experiencing vibrations, which is in my mind is equivalent to reading braille for the blind. TL;DR, I could see these glasses being helpful in a more individually tuned and/or dynamically adjusting factor, but severely overblown pink party glasses ain't it chief lol.
Truth. I can't see ultraviolet, like most humans. You can get me a pair of glasses that will let me see it, by filtering the light selectively. Can I see a new color? No. But now I can pass a test that says I can see ultraviolet. Shorter: the glasses work by cheating and changing the color of things to colors you can see, which might help some people, but based on this reporting does not.
The reasoning I know behind this is that for red/green colourblindness the issue is that your red and green cones basically react to the same light hues. If that is fully the case, theres no hope and help. But apart from extreme cases the spectrum they react to doesn't fully overlap, so exteme green and extreme red do not trigger the other cone, but everything in between does. So to reliably distinguish red and green, you need to avoid the in between hues, eg. make reds redder and greens greener. But this does not give new colours, just make you able to distinguish more shades. And that's only if it works at all.
@@edwardallenthree Run at a wall. The colour that flashes in bursts behind your eyes, behind the pain, just before you die, is (Ultra Violet) infra-black. Good Omens Terry Pratchett. So no need for these glasses then! 😝
This is really sad. I'm not colorblind but I have astigmatism, and when I put glasses on for the first time I was almost in tears, because I could finally see things properly and everything looked more bright and sharp. So when I saw those colorblind videos I thought they kinda had the same experience. Colors are so important to me as an artist, and to think some people can't see what I'm seeing is very sad. And now to think people were scamming others in this...
No need to feel sad for the colorblind. I'm colorblind (or color deficient, very very few people are actually full out color blind). And I'm not an artist, so color isn't important in my life. I can probably see 60% of colors out there properly and I enjoy the colors that I can see.
mild color deficient here, dont worry about it, I discovered my color blindness 10 years ago(at 25yo) and besides from a really small number of situations it never changed anything in my life... To be honest the only issue is that I can't see the green light on traffic lights during sunny days (they look like its turned off) but I can see both the red and yellow, so if the traffic light blinked red/yellow, is currently "off" and other cars on my street are going through I know that its actually green lol
@@iujiujisato807 Interesting... for me it is the RED light that looks like it is off on a sunny day. So if all lights look off I assume it is red. The green looks white to me. It wasn't that long ago that I learned that the "walk" signal and the green light at the traffic light weren't the same color.
I had something similar. I discovered I have astigmatism when I put my friend's glasses on as a joke and was shocked how much better I could see. Her prescription must have been similar to what I didn't know I needed. After getting glasses, I realized that it was indeed not normal to look at the floor when walking, but I didn't know because I was looking down myself!
I’m so glad someone finally researched this. I am not color blind but my dad has some level of tritanopia. I have a decent basic scientific understanding and always had a hard time imagining a mechanism of action for these glasses. It always just sounded like woo woo. So glad to find my theory validated. Great video.
The science behind the glasses is very sound, the miracle promises from the companies are not. The lies in their marketing is just the worst kind of unethical fraud.
The mechanism for the glasses that *I* know work is that the lenses aren't the same color. One's clear, one's kind of orangey. So your brain eventually (a couple weeks) figures out what the difference in the two eyes is, and starts filling in colors.
@@darrennew8211that sounds like a $10 mechanism. If it did any good, I'd think we'd hear about colorblind people wearing normal glasses with cellophane over one lens to help them distinguish colors.
We've been debating this with my wife for over a year. That pretty much aligns with what I anticipated. Basically these glasses work by making you "all color deficient" - the idea is to level out your ability to see different base colors until you see them more or less the same way. And it is achieved by making you nearly truly color blind, until your senses start to pick very very subtle differences, as if you were trying to see shapes in darkness. I would much rather see a very vibrant world and I accept the fact I may not be able to name all colors properly. But I would certainly cry, too, knowing that my wife paid for these half grand. Thank you for the video!!!
I think you're right on the money, and it's why this video seems less-than-fully-thought-out. When you're indoors in normal lighting conditions (i.e. not stage lights), you're going to have a harder time distinguishing colors than when outside. I think we all know that from experience. They specifically recommend wearing these outdoors because it's the only typical environment with sufficient lighting to get the effect. This video didn't do that. This video also didn't go outdoors in full sunlight and repeat the color blindness test with reflected, not emitted, light. Yes, if you compare things indoors it's just going to be muddier and red shifted. But if you compare outdoor perception with sunglasses to outdoor perception with these, there really should be an improvement in ability to distinguish colors (as long as the shifts line up correctly). It's not a terribly complicated concept underneath: just block out more of the wavelengths you can see well, and less of the colors you can see poorly. Also, holding these up to a camera or saying "it's so red!" is a little silly. That's like holding a pair of glasses up to a camera and saying "wow look how messed up the focus is!" It's all relative to your eyes, not to the camera's perception, and if it's working everything *should* look more red, since your red cones don't work properly. Idk, I haven't tried them myself but I want to. If anyone who got these for whom they didn't work wants to send them to me, I'll pay for shipping and give an honest review (no affiliate links or reposts allowed). If they don't work, I won't be able to distinguish colors outdoors; if they do, I'll be able to. I guess the only thing you'd have to trust me on is that I'm actually color blind and that I don't have someone behind the scenes feeding me the answers.
@@a11aaa11a hmm - the kid naming balloon colors is clearly indoors, so per the (staged) ad, the glasses are supposed to work indoors - the preview in this video of how glasses affect vision is clearly done outdoors multiple times. Have you seen it? - if orange and red colors look similar when captured with a sensor that is not suffering from color blindness, argument can be made that wearing the glasses makes you even more color blind than you would otherwise be. I do agree that your sight will adapt to hue change eventually. I do understand the concept of leveling out your perception of different base colors in an effort to help you see colors you can see. But I don't think the world you see will be vibrant - quite the contrary: it will be tinted and dim. And the footage shows this. I don't think the video aims at talking you out of the purchase. It's your choice, your money. I support you buying them if you feel like doing that. It only aims at giving you more information that, contrary to official promotional videos, is not sponsored in any way
@@TomaszWiszkowski sorry just to be clear this video definitely has a ton of value and the companies' practices are shady and, I'd say, prob illegal. The balloon kids and fake influencer vids are horrible, and I don't want to give them my money after seeing that. I'm just curious whether it actually works as I'd expect. Yes, it will be dimmer than not wearing sunglasses, but will it be more distinguishable? The poster of this video could have been a more reliable piece of evidence for that question, but I fear they missed a core way to test (hopefully unintentionally, but I always fear it's for the sake of pushing a narrative/getting views)
I asked a eye surgeon who also did research on eye health about the colorblind glasses. He had a set of the real, prescription, high priced glasses. They looked slightly blue. With my normal, but perhaps somewhat trained eyes, I noticed that light yellow and light grey were less distinct, if not indistinguishable. Other than that they made no real difference. He explained that yellow is actually where both the red and green cones are firing about as much. Some people with red-green colorblindness have a little too much overlap in the sensitivity of their red and green receptors. For these people, removing some of the yellow wavelengths greatly improves their perception of red and green, at the cost of some yellow-white perception. They don't work for everyone because some people either have too much overlap or one set of receptors really doesn't work well at all. Basically not all red-green colorblindness is the same.
It sounds like these types of glasses can help a very small percentage of people. But, the market is too small to be financially viable, so they market/hype them to all sorts of "specific colorblindness" with grandiose promises and claims.
@@jovetj they have tests on their site to help you determine what kind of colorblindness you have. It's more honest that this video that is portraying colorblindness as a one size fits all problem.
I can explain the reason for emotional reaction…. As a colorblind person I had looked into getting these glasses form enchroma but they were too expensive. When I received them as a gift from someone I felt emotional that someone would spend that much money on me. I was almost crying before even putting them on… when I put them on everyone was watching and expecting this big ordeal of a reaction, and unfortunately they didn’t get the reaction they were expecting… I had the same reaction as you… everything just more purple.
So I am red green color blind, but I mostly struggle with green, like I can barely identify green. I went to optometrist and got custom prescription color blindness glasses. They are FAR better than the ones online. There is a blue tint but its minimal. They really help with green and I genuinely teared up when I went outside. They arent perfect and there are times where they aren't worth it, but they really help me differentiate green from grey brown and black. Before I got the prescription ones, I tried Pilestone glasses. They were ketchup red and were awful. So if anyone wants actual improvement you may want to look into seeing an optometrist. The doctor was honest and said that the glasses weren't magical and they cant replicate normal vision but grass being green and not brown is something I will take.
This is sort of my experience with Enchroma. It makes the greens and reds pop and everything just looks more beautiful. But they also make it so certain colors become confused instead (such as blue and pink). Overall I like to wear them to see nature, and they were worth it for me for this reason only. But they've never actually helped me "see new colors" or even distinguish consistently between colors that I normally confuse.
I tried to get some custom made glasses, but it seems there is not even a market for it in my country. So I just use contrast enhancing glasses, works fine too.
For me grass was always more red. It's nice to read all these posts as it helps to remember that not all colorblindness is the same. There are many varieties and there won't be a single cure-all. I guess you can "normalize" the spectrum, but by now my brain has used the extra capacity for texture detection so my vision is pretty sharp
@@fluffylilmarshmallow4525 Stop defending those scam artists. You should be ashamed of yourself, like they should be if they actually had enough humanity to feel shame for exploiting their viewers like that.
Yes! I put them on the first time and thought, ugggh red is a really obnoxious color. After that I kept telling my wife that every one of those reactions were bullshit. So she accused me of being dead inside and not allowing myself to feel emotions. The reaction videos weren’t fake, I was just a terrible person
That’s crazy people arent believing you when you’re the one who is colorblind
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I'm not colorblind but hearing about these I didn't see how glasses could correct for the cause of colorblindness as I understood it. I never heard anything to the contrary and it didn't affect me though so my questioning never went further than that.
I have had so many people try to "open my eyes" to the glasses. I don't make a big deal out of my color deficiency, but most people that know me are well aware of it. It is such a facination for people who have normal color vision for some reason. But, every time someone has mentioned these glasses, I have always told them that they might make reds/greens more vibrant, they are going to mute blues, yellows or other colors, because that is just how light works. You can't change 1 color without altering all colors. There is never going to be a passive effect glasses that will ever correct any form of color blindness. The only way this will ever be possible is to have some type of active effect glasses that utilize a camera that you are viewing the environment through. This would use software to enhance the colors that a CVD struggles with, while leaving others alone. The lens themselves would have some type of embedded screen in them that you would actually view the world through. And, the software would have to be specifically calibrated for each individual. So, glasses that work for me, would likely not work for any other person.
I see so many negative comments but I bought a pair, found them on sale through Best Buy for $100 because $300 is crazy to me, but Ive honestly been satisfied with the glasses I bought. No they dont "correct" your vision but for me they did help me differentiate between colors I was strugging with before. My girlfriend and I got a box of 200 different colored color pencils and I got just about all but like 3 or 4 right. I didnt name the exact color but I could tell more of what colors were mixed together to create that color vs before it was just a box of very similar colored color pencils.😅 I say all of this to say that I didn't go into the purchase believing everything I saw about them and knowing they wouldn't be a "cure" for the problem I deal with, but they have infact helped me more than they have hendored me, so I say they are at least doing something.
When these first went viral my parents were pumped to get these for me, and I had an itch that it didn’t make anysense. How could a visual aid start making a color detector in your eye work. I felt awful when a family member got me a pair, expecting me to fall to my knees with emotion and I just shrugged and said everything looks more red.
@@yoeyyoey8937 I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see. The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem. 1. Price, they are massively ovepriced 2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked 3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this. Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons. Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over. The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING. Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP. THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!! Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*. Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior. Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
I also had a colour centric job despite being colour blind. Colour separation for making printing plates - I had to hide the fact that I was colour blind from my boss for years. Made a few slips in meetings like "for the green part we can..." "Green? There's no green. Do mean the orange?" "Ah yes, slip of the tongue, the orange part" But when working on the computer I knew what colour things were by using the dropper and looking at the colour wheel.
I will always trust my spectrophotometer before I trust my eyes. I was pumped when I got the glasses, thinking I could use them at work (also in printing), but while they're really pleasant to pump up colors out in the sunlight, they're about as useful as wearing sunglasses at night if you're indoors. Great as recreational sunglasses, but by no means a cure for colorblindness, especially when color accuracy counts!!
As soon as I tell someone I’m colourblind, 1 out of 3 people ask me about these glasses. Trying to explain that glasses can’t fix my missing cone cells isn’t easy. 😆
The way I like to explain it is like polarising, if they don't get the light adding another filtering layer just isn't gonna help if anything it's gonna make it worse. Polarising lense plus polarising lense(at 90°)= no light.
First colorblind person I met was asked "Okay so those coorblind glasses are bs right?" And they were like "Yes, lied to my mom at christmass about them though."
Yeah, if you flat out only have two types of cones these would be a waste of money. They *might* work if you have 3 cones and two are close together in frequency range, AND if the glasses happen to filter out your overlap. Not worth the risk.
@Yensnipest they tread the line... using facts out of context can be very successful in marketing( see Apples recent 99% customer satisfaction") with a large part of average society. FDA approved "they will change the way you see colours" is absolutely true(as would a pair of cheap sunglasses) but it will fix the lack of cones able to see certain colours is BS but the quote on the website will do the job.
I'm not color blind. I just made the enchroma test. The result was "you're not color blind, but you can still benefit from our glasses". Like how? 🤦🏻♀️
I just did it and got ENCHROMA COLOUR BLIND TEST RESULTNORMAL COLOUR VISION You have normal colour vision which means you can see up to one million distinct shades of colour. But, our Outdoor Deutan lenses can boost your colour perception even more!
I was gonna say, I'm not even sure what "FDA approval" even means for glasses. Considering FDA guidelines for anything OTC are quite loose (as an example, if the thing doesn't cause harm when taken/used as directed, it's cleared; the proof it works for xyz isn't very important at all; how harmful can a pair of glasses be?) I never take that claim on products very seriously.
The term “approval” is only ever used for drugs, while devices get “cleared.” Glasses would certainly be devices, not drugs, so it is actually illegal for them to claim they are FDA “approved.” If you’re curious, clearing a device often requires little more than showing yours is similar to a device that already exists. While approval means experimental evidence of both safety and efficacy for a drug
15:04 just insane they thought that claiming their GLASSES was FDA approved would be good idea, for an administration that's the "food and drug administration"
I'm so glad you addressed my first concern with these reactions: if they've never seen a particular color, how DO they know what color it is? A more believable reaction would be: wow, what's THAT one? And THIS one? 😂
I think that's any critical thinker's first impression. Big red flag there. I do believe I saw 1 video that thought about this and what they did was give them a card after they had the glasses on that had the colors written on it. So I'll at least give that scammer credit for thinking of it.
Exactly, however, color blind people obviously know what certain colors look like due to their shade. They might not be able to see "red," but if the glasses help them distinguish certain shades/colors better, then of course they'll immediately be like "whoa, is that red?"
colorblind people dont see in black and white, they still know which colors are which, they just look different to them, or they might have trouble telling certain colors apart. even if the glasses only slightly improve the perception of contrast for example theyll still easily know what color theyre looking at, theyve been seeing them all their life, just not how we do the glasses are rly sketchy though, straight up fraud
I'm hesitant to agree with you because colorblindness doesn't mean seeing the world in black and white. Usually people just lack the variation of shades, or confuse 2 colors (red and green for example). Just look at the colorblind tests. In one of the videos I saw of people trying these on, the guy said that he hadn't ever seen so many shades of green on the trees and grass of his backyard. A friend of mine would find this glasses useful because our university used to have graphs that exclusively used red and green on their entrance exams. If the glasses make it possible to distinguish two shades, then they work. What guarantees that my green is the same as your green, even if we both have perfect eyesight?
As a partially colorblind person, you don’t need to ask what color something is if you’ve been told it 100 times; grass is green, trees are brown, sky is blue, etc.
Thanks for bringing this scam to light. I’m colorblind in deuteranomaly and have tried on those glasses. I thought they were a scam too. All they did was make the world look vivid. They were also $200 and I thought no way those glasses that have a slight tint to them can cost $200. I saw all the viral videos online and thought maybe my glasses were broken, but as I watched more videos it looked even more fake. I returned the glasses and got my money back.
I‘m near-sighted, and 100 € per glass is a reasonable price. Though, my glasses actually do the thing they’re supposed to do… just wanted to throw this in: Artificial-glass lenses for your personal vision, that have been treated to massively reduce reflections, cost 100 € each, so 200 € in total, in exchange for being able to see. It’s great to hear that you got your money back! Kinda, sorta, happy ending… ^^
As a colorblind person, since the first time I saw something about those glasses, I called bullshit. Many people from my family asked me if I wanted one but I always said no because the technology behind it didn’t really make sense to me. I’m not a doctor but I’m an electrical engineer and understand how light works. Well, thanks god I went with my gut and didn’t buy it.
Well, i can confirm from an optometry side of things. Color blindness is the problem that starts with cones inside your eye, you have green cones, red cones and blue cones, just like RGB. With colorblind people, one or more type of cones don't work right. There is no way of fixing cones with glasses. you can only increase contrast between the cones that are working. So, in summary, you will never see colors that you cannot see.
@@Mikee512 There is no reason to, really. The glasses shift your contrast and hue a bit, but they do not allow you to see colors that you normally cannot. That's because you can't change anything with your inner cones.
Thank you! I’m profoundly colorblind (diagnosed when I was 3), and I’m always being asked about these and forwarded such videos. I’m always explaining how it has to be a scam, and had to repeatedly tell family members NOT to buy some for me, especially given the price. I don’t mind being colorblind, and it’s a great conversation starter. I’m almost always the first in my family to spot wildlife, which I think is because I’m colorblind and am extra sensitive to movement and patterns to compensate for not seeing color well. Thanks again for exposing these silly glasses and videos.
You and me both.. it has never stopped me doing anything & other than an embarrassing game of Uno with friends & questions of “what does this look like to you?”, it hasn’t had any impact on my life!
You might be more in tune with the rod cells. Cats and dogs are also "profusely colourblind", but the rod cells are what allows them to see and track movement, especially in low light. That's a pretty cool thing, I wonder if this means colourblindness is an adaptation for us, which is why its stuck around. Perhaps colourblind individuals were responsible for defense and brought into hunting parties more often during our hunter-gatherer times.
The wildlife spotting thing is real. My colorblind son (he has Deuteranomoly) has the keenest eyes in the family when it comes to spotting birds or animals in the wild. We call it his superpower. When the glasses were new, I took him to an optometrist who carried them so he could try them out. I was going to buy them as an expensive gift. He put them on, looked around, shrugged, and said “these don’t do much.” He didn’t want them. We didn’t buy them.
That's funny you mention detecting wildlife. Humans have the ability to see more shades of green than any other color, because it gave us an advantage while hunting or detecting predators. It almost sounds like your other hunting tools have been sharpened in response to losing one. Same way your ears get sharper when you go blind I suppose
The video ended extremely abruptly 😂 That being said though, I really was suspicious of these things the whole time. The red flag for me was that the reason people are colorblind is that they're missing those color sensors in their eyes. How is a lens that can only remove colors from the visible spectrum going to the eye supposed to make an eye see a color that it can't even read? That's like filtering water then expecting it to have fruity flavoring in it afterwards
There are a lot of different causes of color blindness, some people have the sensors but the wavelengths they react to overlap so in those circumstances a carefully engineered color filter might help. A specific one though, customised for that one person's eyes, not some mass produced gimmick product.
Umm, I think they actually might have water filters like that though but the filter stage is before the flavor stage or they filter one direction but flavor if the water is flowing out of the bottle, and if they don't as yet make these, it's technically possible to do it.
the theory is it only works if you still have some of the color cones. if you're say, missing green entirely, you're boned. if instead, red and green are overlapping too much, there's a chance of it working by making the separate color signals more distinct.
I bet those companies are working like crazy to try to get this video removed. Especially in the thick of the holiday shopping season. Ouch. Wonderful, eye opening look at this scam!
@@RochRich. I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see. The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem. 1. Price, they are massively ovepriced 2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked 3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this. Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons. Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over. The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING. Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP. THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!! Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*. Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior. Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
Or the crossed wires in your optical nerve, or any problems in the color vision processing center in your brain. I have the same type of colorblindness as the uploader by the way. At least, as far as I can tell from what he said.
It's like trying to sell headphones that allow deaf people to hear.
**edit** Guys. The point is that changing input doesn't fix anything if the mechanism for sensing it is broken or missing. It's not meant to be a 1-1 analogy.
Hey, I'm colorblind and I have a theory as to why the glasses are tinted this way. When I was younger, I really liked a pair of sunglasses I had that was tinted brown, as it made the grass greener and made autumn leaves pretty cool-looking. Of course it didn't allow me to see more than the 3 basic colors of a rainbow, but it helped me distinguish some of the nuances in leaves and grass. My guess is that for the most common form of colorblindness (i was told that the 3 have very different proportions), a rose-ish tint can help people distinguish nuance as it would "spread" the colors in a certain area a bit more ("spread" as in give them a different brightness). The companies probably bet on the fact that going for the most common of the 3 would allow for people to see results for some stuff and not report on the side effects of destroying the difference between some colors at the other end of the spectrum, at least for the time it takes to get some sales.
I dunno if colorblind people feel the same effect, but I know that if I wear a pair of common yellow-tinted safety glasses for a few hours, when I take them off the world seems incredibly vibrant until my brain re-aligns. I'd wager the same psychological effect goes on here but in reverse: they've never seen color "correctly," so shifting it to a new spectrum feels alien and then they're told they're seeing the world like everyone else does, when that's sorta the same as trying to prove that everyone's brain interprets the color purple the same as everyone else's.
@@OOZ662 The brain definitely plays a major part in distinguishing colors, even using context clues. My mother discovered I was colorblind very early because I told her that the trains would always stop at green lights, when in fact their lights are just reversed (red on top, green on bottom). Since I learned this information I've been able to "see" a difference between red & green lights, even thought on a map using those colors I can't distinguish them. It's possible that the change itself is enough for the brain to remember to assign a different "feel" (color) to a certain objet.
I hope this will get at the top of the comments. As a colorblind myself, I took my time to look into how viewing colors and gray works. You’ve got 2 types of “sensors” light sensor (brightness/gray) and hue sensor (color) and basically when you’re colorblind, your color sensor (hue sensor) are bad/doesn’t work properly. The hue sensor are split in 3 category (red blue green) and thus cause the different type of colorblindness. My point is, no matter how good these glasses are, if your eyes don’t allow you to see the color, the glasses wont magically allow it. Also, the best it could do is help you differentiate color but as shown in the video it makes it worst. Keep in mind I never tried it, this is an opinion based on the science of thing
Any product that has one of the Paul brothers, or anybody associated with them, is 100% a scam. That's when I knew this was. You also brought up my #1 red flag question "If they've never seen these colors then how do they know what they are?"
its all bullshit but you would 100% have years of context clues. People are taught what color things are in school, and even if they are colorblind they learn what color things "should be" If you never saw blue before and suddenly saw a new color when looking at the sky... you would know its blue you are seeing for the first time.
@@Shiftarus you know, i thought twitch was blue for the longest time until i got a filter and found out that yeah, it's actually purple. but i know what purple looks like, i've seen purple before, just not in the same way other people see purple. if someone else without colorblindness looked at my screen they'd be like "whoa dude why is twitch pink" or something like that probably.
@@Shiftarus That would be in context. Not looking at the same exact objects that are different colors and being able to immediately identify a bunch of new colors.
@@vibaj16 I’m guessing “it’s bullshit” refers to the balloon bit, and the rest of the explanation refers to how colourblind people know what colour something is in general.
As a colourblind person, I genuinely loved this video. Can't say how many times I've had people tell me "Oh you should just get some of those glasses that fix it", and then have to explain that for the majority of people, it doesn't work.
So the glasses do work for me. My advice is to take a test and try a set that offers a 60 day money back guarantee. Wear them a ton, multiple hours a day. If they dont work, send them back. I will say that i can see brown dog poop on a red bath mat with them on so my wife doesnt get to laugh at me when i pick up a cold one that was virtually invisible to me...
@@jonlough3074 not to sound rude, but the science doesn't add up. the glasses might be able to change some colors to others, but there's no possible way that they can actually fix deficiencies in the eye itself. that would almost certainly be required to see colors you weren't previously able to see. i'm sure that they might be able to make certain colors stand out more, but without a direct connection to the eyes and brain, it's just not possible for something like that to fix any kind of colorblindness.
No, they don't work for you. They literally don't because they CAN'T. They can ALTER the way you see colors, but in no way, shape, or form do they correct colorblindness. @@jonlough3074
They don‘t fix colorblindness but I mean anybody who knows how colorblindness works can see this obviously. I didn‘t think people actually believed they cured it. I bought them and they work for me. This doesn‘t mean they cure my colorblindness, it means they filter out some of the wavelengths I have problems with which means the others stand out more, giving me the ability to differentiate between red and green for example. This logically doesn‘t mean I can see more colors but I can see the difference between some problematic colors, which is my main problem. So I am very happy with my purchase.
So many friends/family post those damned "heart-warming" videos on their timelines (or link them to ME as they all know I'm colourblind) and I always feel a responsibility to shit on them (the videos :) because I knew from the beginning that lenses cannot add rods/cones to my eyes. Now, all I have to do is link this video! Thank you. Definitely worth the subscribe! ps... "That was a huge blue flag for me" Nice!
For over a decade I gave the colorblindness test to new employees at my old job. I was surprised to learn how many subtle and strange variations exists.
@@minetruly They weren't demanding medical info. If you're a business where you work with paints and you once had an employee applying a wrong colour, you are free to implement a colour test (or exam, training, etc), so they're not wasting materials.
@@minetrulyfor jobs that reliant on color, like video editing, graphic design or engineer/chemical engineer, colorblind test are pretty much a requirement. Tbf, some work require having no injuries that hamper with work, to prevent incidents, workplace safety issues and all that
@@ArchivistMarkeragree, it's our right to deny giving sensitive information - but some medical details _are_ relevant to certain jobs & it's better to be upfront than risk an accident (or lose said job) in the future
@@minetruly The relevant laws can vary greatly depending upon job type and locality, but generally speaking, for an employer to demand something medical of an employee, that thing must be necessary for the safe performance of the position. Keep in mind that's just a rule of thumb. Employers still have to follow anti discrimination laws that require them to make certain accommodations when possible. For instance, the colorblind test that I administered was for newly hired clinical laboratory scientists and chemists. If they failed the colorblind test it didn't affect their employment status, they just weren't allowed to do colorimetric testing.
Great video. I got tricked into buying their glasses a few years ago. I'm strong protan, according to their test. The glasses certainly made some colors brighter and even prettier. But I still could not distinguish them as purple or green. I should have sent them back, but I was trying to give it a while to let my eye/brain "adjust", which is what they tell you. Eventually, I just chalked it up to a $300 mistake. I guess I just figured I was one of the people they just don't work for. Thanks for looking into this.
You’re totally right, I thought i wasn’t “one of the lucky ones” when my family got these for me for my birthday a few years ago. I felt like such an idiot because they had set up the balloons as they weren’t that much different. All it did was increase the vibrancy of the colours. I felt kind of ashamed/ guilty as they were all expecting a different reaction 😅. It’s pretty disgusting to think that these are heavily promoted via media.
My mom got me these a few years ago and actually got mad at me when my reaction to putting them on was saying "its all pink" I wear them every now and again but never really notice a big difference, the only times I take them off and feel like I actually notice a difference is under specific scenarios and with me consciously thinking about it.
Lol, your mom is stupid, maybe even a bit abusive, for getting mad. My immediate reaction would've been laughing really hard. That said, I am a bit biased since I know how color blindness works from a scientific perspective.
This just showed up on my feed. I'm not coloured blind but I appreciate good journalism and integrity. Companies shouldn't get away with this stuff anymore. We need to keep ourselves informed of the modern day snake-oil salesmen and I appreciate creators like you or Coffeezilla sharing the stuff regular "news" won't share. Subscribed!
Out of all this, the most shameful is the fact that all those “news” media did no investigations to find out if this was legit. So much for journalism standards! Can’t wait for part two!
As if people would react that way just because they see more colors, ridiculous. Quite color blind myself but I see enough colors. I certainly wouldn't react that way just cause a saw a few more shades of colors. Obviously color blindness doesn't mean you don't see colors, usually just means you see fewer colors. So big deal unless you work with photo/video editing or something. I used to play world of tanks and the red silhouettes of enemy tanks were kinda hard to see. Used to think it was strange how my dad used to say red objects were easy to spot in a green field.
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I took introductory physics for two semesters. Learned about how light works and how our eyes see it. Even though the scam was obvious to me, seeing actual scientists back up the BS in this marketing to an audience of millions of people was truly eye opening, not for me, but hopefully for a lot of others. Although I'm not colorblind, I really appreciate your explanation on how it's not really a lifechanging cripple but just a small inconvenience.
Thank you for your journalism, mate!
@@Brixster Are all journalism is left for private? I mean not putting it towards you. Where the hell is the reporters and journalist who actually studied and report such scams.
@@Brixster for me it was the fact that no colorblind ppl in real life use them. I once heard a doctor in a marketing lecture say, if gimmicky products like these worked either everyone would be using them, or the company would be charging a lot more money for the product and trying to bill insurance.
@@SaintShion that's a really astute observation there. I genuinely did not think of that!
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A company claiming to cure colorblindness by selling literal rose-tinted glasses is just too perfect
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@@williamc4221 you're that guy huh
@@Tom-bi7irThey hated Jesus because he told them the truth.
@@cksupreme Except that isn't the truth, it's to.
My dad was red/green colour blind. He died around 5 years ago. One regret I had was that I never bought these colour-blind glasses for him to try, as it was something I was aware of, but never got around to. The regret has come to me several times over the years since his passing.
This video is actually giving me relief, in a way. Thanks
A friend of mine is a lapidary, he cuts thousands of precious and non precious gems stones for a living.. he is colorblind and relies on the subtle differences in the shades. He didn’t want to try the glasses, he knew they were bogus,
if they had worked, they would have been prescribed by a doctor. Prescription lenses, for example.
I have a friend with the same condition. I wanted to buy him those glasses but never got to do so... I kept thinking about it.. Until watching this video. 🤷♂
sounded too good to be true was too good to be true at least now u dont have that regret
Wow...I'm sorry about your dad, but I'm so happy that you got a chance to get that weight off of your shoulders! I totally understand what you mean. It's the kind of thing that I would beat myself up about, too. And now you can relieve yourself of that. Remember your dad for who he was, not what you didn't do for him. He wouldn't want that for you.
So this is awkward. I found this video looking for reviews on these glasses so that I could buy a pair as a Christmas present for a family member. Thank you for saving me the money. This is shocking!
I’m so glad my video helped ❤️
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they're total bullshit in most cases but as a sailor, they do help me distinguish between red and green lights, at night, at a distance. They also help me tell the difference between red and green charging LEDs.
I think that's how they make money. I'm pretty sure it's people who aren't colorblind buying those glasses for others. People who are colorblind and see those reaction videos instantly know it's fake.
Only video I watched about the glasses was Dream's video which seemed more legit than the others
I'm red green colourblind. I didn't get the famous ones but i did get them. They work but you don't see colour the way others do. It just darkens the green and lightens the red. It's easier to distinguish the colours from each other
Which ones did you get
@@augustburnsred786 The green ones..no, the red ones..Oh, I don't know!
yeah but the problem is that isnt what they are advertising. if you like it thats great, but the immediate color correction they got in the reaction videos is almost completely false.
From the people I've spoken to your experience is what most of them reported. You don't suddenly "see" the colour but can now more easily distinguish them with some training.
I'm grateful that my science teacher in high school told me that it's my missing cone inside my eyes that causes me not see color correctly. So no matter what color layer put in front of me, my eyes can't process it, therefore no fancy glasses can fix it.
And I am one of the rare few who can see all the colors perfectly. I took two tests and got identical perfect scores. I did not mess up on a single color. I don't even know what normal is because I am also abnormal.
@@Shastasnowlol not rare, you really want to be special don't you?
@@ShastasnowWhat? There is no such thing. Unless you are talking about tetrachromacy, which is having 4 cones instead of the normal 3. If that's the case, then it's still weird because you make it sound like you have 3 cones.
@@ferociousmaliciousghost I say it is weird to be the only artist in my year to pass the color tests perfectly yet I still have terrible vision. I am blind as a bat without glasses 😅🤓
@@shakalakboom Wait you think I am special 😂 Na. I am a nobody and plan to stay as forgettable as possible.
"...and that was a huge blue flag for me"
Absolutely love when people have a sense of humor avout stuff that they have to deal with.
I stopped and had a good giggle
when did he say that?
@@itsabdelg It totally flew past me too lol
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I loved the way he casually left the joke without over pointing it lol
I think it’s weird that enchroma tells you to give it a few weeks for your eyes to adjust to the glasses but all the videos and even enchroma’s advertisements have an instant reaction from the participants
People will be less likely to return them that way, especially within their "60-day money back guarantee" period.
It can take some time for the eyes and brain to adjust to something altering the eye-to-brain feedback process, but a couple weeks? That's a bit much if you're wearing them consistently. Even the brains of people wearing glasses that made everything UPSIDE DOWN only took 10 days to adjust so they could see right-side-up with the glasses on.
Aha! You are a smart person and quite observant.
Right? As if someone who has never before seen the color red, can instantly identify that a red balloon is red.
Also they advertise "guaranteed to help you see color and thousands of hues for the first time", but then say it doesn't work for all forms of color blindness
If there isn’t already, There should be a special classification of fraud that goes after medical diseases and people’s desperations. But then I guess most pharmaceutical companies would get caught in the crossfire too.
I agree, and it would protect people but it may open a whole can of worms
What is particularly gross is how some people manipulated their own children into being ponzies for these fake products.
Money is a powerful motivator
That's what kids are for
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I just can't believe this is fake! Usually I have a pretty good sense for filtering out scams and lies online. I really thought this works because how would you not get sued if it doesn't work!?
@@lehelzelenka207I’m just wondering why I’m hearing this now and people who’ve tried it never said anything?
As someone who bought the enchroma glasses, here's what i got: I have protanopia and its given me issues since my teachers tried to teach me colors in preschool. So when I learned about these glasses, I jumped at the opportunity. What i found is that these glasses DID help me differentiate colors like blue vs. purple, but as stated in the video, it made some colors I could see HARDER to tell apart. It made many colors prettier or more vibrant than my normal vision, but not accurate. In addition, the glasses seem to only work well outside and it aways took about 10 minutes for my eyes to adjust. In conclusion, these glasses are a cool gimmick that cost hundreds of dollars and are shrouded in dishonesty.
Polarizers do the same thing to make colors more vivid by reducing sun glare. It’s a big thing for videographers and photographers to put on polarizing filters to get better color.
That just sounds like applying a colored filter on your glasses, which helps you see similar colors better and block some of the sunlight, but fucks up other aspects.
Hey, that sounds like sunglasses.
Going through some other comments and the video itself I find that the glasses is like "advanced sunglasses" or not even. Roughly speaking they just apply 2 or more colors on a lens/combine multiple colored lens togetger to create 2-shades sunglasses.
Ngl I would wear that to a party.
I agree. I have protopania and was bought these by my brother. It makes red "pop" more, but also puts a tint on every thing else making those colors less accurate. I never wear them anymore and I felt bad about it because they weren't cheap, but they did almost nothing so... Atleast I know why now.
@@rexplorer.official I'm deutan and for me, a polarizing filter is just one component. Looking at a rainbow normally, if I'm lucky I can distinguish maybe 3 colors max. With basic polarized lenses, I might get 4. But with polarized and amber tinted lenses, I can see 5 or 6.
My girlfriend surprised me with these glasses, and after putting them on I got pretty emotional. I have monochromacy so they didn't do anything, but after looking at the price I just couldn't hold back the tears. 300 frickin dollars... Why!! 😭
Yeah except they have a very simple return process
Monochramy? so black/white/grey vision right?
@@polishonion459yea
Yup - stops you taking certain jobs. Like becoming a police officer. I mean you would keep getting in the wrong car
@@tuckwalker670he didnt buy em tho
So glad your channel is about to go to the moon. Just found your channel via the amazing Honey video, and it looks like it wasn’t a fluke.
Keep up the great work! You’re doing a huge service to humanity with your investigative videos! 🤝
Exactly! I've never thought to buy these glasses nor have I ever used Honey, but I'm enjoying the actual research and I like his voice 😊
I actually bought some enchroma glasses (refurb so far cheaper than new) for my partner a number of years back, but I never promised him full colour vision or the ability to see hues he'd never seen before
After researching it myself I figured the main benefit was that he might be able to tell some greens and reds apart that previously would have been identical, like separating them to remove some overlap. Overall I suspected his entire range of colour vision might even be reduced slightly, but widening the gap between green and red was the goal
And... it worked
He was never reduced to tears, didn't see new colours, but he was able to finally spot red flowers in a green bush. He could also see the difference between lush green grass and dead brown grass which would blend together previously, and contrast in general seemed to be improved. For 4 years they've been his favourite pair of sunglasses
I feel like they genuinely had a good product but just completely stuffed the marketing big time. Lower expectations, be real on what they do and charge less - I bet it still would have succeeded just slower and less extreme
yeah, the produce does 'work' but not in the way they describe it.
color correcting glasses is like the added sugar in lemonade. it helps bring out the flavor of the lemon and masking the natural unwanted bitterness of some lemons. just as the glasses helps remove the overlapping wavelength for the certain color cones, letting people distinguish what is already present.
but the marketing is saying it lets people see colors that weren't present before. its like saying adding sugar to lemon juice makes it grape juice. i do think encroma and other companies are liable for flagrant false advertisement but not so much as a being complete scam.
You're exactly right. I have a friend that is a full time animator. He would struggle at times having to ask co-workers "is this supposed to be green or yellow? I can't tell." And if it's digital, he would have to use the eye dropper tool to find the hex value, then google that hex value to find the name of the color associated with it.
Since he has had the EnChromas glasses, he no longer has to do any of that. Sure, he may not be seeing everything perfectly, but he is able to create his art much more easily than he did before. He always has them on while he's working now.
@@fumoffu_l "he would have to use the eyedropper then google the hex code to learn the name of the colour"
it's amazing, the workarounds that technology has provided us with.
This!
As I understand it, the theory behind these is that most people with deuteranopia (the most common type of colour blindness) still have three kinds of cone cells (red, green and blue), but the red and green ones have more overlap in their wavelength sensitivity than normal. What the glasses are supposed to do is selectively block out the wavelengths that overlap, which makes distinguishing certain colours easier but obviously changes their tone. So they by definition make you see FEWER colours, not more, but with potentially more clarity.
I find it interesting how this directly contradicts one of the experts interviewed in the preview at the end of this video (18:45), but maybe that is just out of context and she's talking about a different kind of colour blindness.
This is super depressing but I can't help myself from laughing at the irony that there's a common saying everyone knows about looking through rose tinted glasses and that is exactly what they're selling. Rose tinted glasses
lol, true
I actually have them. And I'm actually ridiculously colorblind. They actually worked for me. It wasn't dramatic, but I saw purple for the first time. If you have the money, they are worth a shot, but it won't cure the issue.
@@Geo-FaFavery true. The issue was the marketing tbh saying it’s a “cure” when it really is just an enchancement/crutch to help colorblind people see a little better
@@Geo-FaFaI mean seeing purple, but other colors being worse isnt really "working"
@@devlintaylor9520 If what you want to do is see purple, than seeing purple when you would like to would be working. The problem is not that the product does nothing, its just that it exaggerates its claims.
Dont do the same shit in the opposite way lol
I bought these for my son who is severely color blind. Glasses did absolutely nothing for him. Total scam. Thank you for putting this out there to hopefully prevent others from being scammed.
So sorry that there are scummy companies like this that take advantage of your love for your child. What you wanted to do was beautiful and I hope that the money they scammed from you and others brings them no joy and they end up choking on it!!!!!!
I've used a few. The ones I use are definitely an improvement, I'll never see right, but I have 6 family members that have the same deuteranopia type of colorblindness. 4 of them tried them, the other 2 didn't want to which is fair, but the ones who did had the same experience as me. I ain't trying to sell ya shit, but the ones I use make a crazy difference. Ie many video games to this day don't have a colorblind option and these have made em playable, oh plus wow they make anime way better
@@lightseyedea763Glad you had a positive experience. Personally, after wasting money on a pair that did nothing, I'm now not buying anything my optician doesn't sell or recommend
what is severely colour blind ?????????????????
sue them *whispers: sue them*
As a colorblind person who got the glasses years ago… things were much different.. I know colors I just don’t see them the same way others do… so with the glasses it completely changed many colors…example purple.. way different than I normally see it… so what’s the big difference.. when I describe a color without the glasses it makes no sense to people for example pink and grey are almost the same color.. with the glasses no where near each other.. grey is bland while pink feels like candy.. orange and beige … almost the same color … with the glasses no where near the same… beige is more of a light brown while orange reminds me of a lighter red…I simply tell people my life is the wizard of oz… with the glasses it feels like the scene where the color is turned on.. it’s actually overwhelming so I tend to not wear them often
Exact same experience for me. It let's me distinguish some more easily, while making it harder to tell others apart. It takes me from protanomaly to deuteranomaly, according to the tests
I just took the test on enchroma and got normal color vision, and they still claim that "But, our Outdoor Deutan lenses can boost your color perception even more!" 💀
Yup 🤣
Same here.
When you take time to try some other sites, you soon realise they are copycats. Same UI, same messages.
Well, to be fair I think, *if* they *could* fix colorblindness to full color, I'm sure they could add a 4th too, as tetrachromancy is a thing in humans, albeit rare.
same 💀💀
I know there's worse things out there but this feels so cruel. My dad is colourblind and at one point I genuinely wanted to get him these.
Yeah, I feel you! My dad passed away some years ago, but had he been alive, I probably would've seriously considered buying these as a gift, just to see his reaction. His colorblindedness had turned into like a small inside joke between us because of how/where I found out and I teased him. Basically his biggest thing was his inability to see green & greenish-blue. He'd usually either see them as brown or blue. His two favorite shirts were green but apparently he had no idea until I told him right when I found out he couldn't see green, which was when I was 19 out to dinner with him and a friend lmao. Same with wine bottles; he had always been huuugely into wine, even had a collection with extremely expensive wines, like we're talking bunches of $ five-figure bottles of wine. Despite being *that* into wines his whole life, he had always thought the bottles were brown, not green, lol.
Honestly it was a great night, and *so* funny. I would've instantly bought him a pair if I'd believed they'd work, if anything just to see what he'd say when he finally saw what his shirts truly looked like! 😂
he still see's color just not the way you do, its why when someone buys a car cause they like the color regardless of what it is others will say "why would you buy a car that color?"
That's an odd comparison tbh lol@@perry92964
@@perry92964that’s not completely true. Depends on the type of color blindess. Some people really CAN’T distinguish two or more colors - in fact not seing on of the other😊
@@perry92964 There’s other forms of colorblindness that easily confuse colors, and others still bring different results.
Last I checked, the FTC stated that falsely misleading people per selected reviews was illegal. So much for consumer protection!
The FTC is asleep at the wheel. So are many other consumer protection agencies. I imagine it’s because most of the regulatory bodies are underfunded and understaffed
The FTC barely has sufficient funding to emplyoy enough people to do a quarter of their "required" work. Their basically there so the government can say, _No look we tried, we made the FTC!_ shit rolls down hill fr.
Republicans keep funding and trying to close down consumer protection agencies like the ftc. Same with the IRS funding to go after the millionaire tax cheats with offshore tax Havens. The problem is a lot of people listen to Fox News and either don't know or believe the Republican lies. It's easy enough to check, most people are just too lazy.
Yeah, we should give the government MORE money because they've done so well with what they have been given.
I mean stole.
@@SaintShionmeanwhile money is just missing at the pentagon, and we overpaid billions of dollars to ukraine and told them to just keep it. Then again, i doubt the FTC would be much more useful even if funded properly because the government is horrible and inefficient.
I have been posting criticism of the “see color for first time” language in comments sections of these gullible articles for years. I have never received a response or request for clarification. Same for colorblindness forums when someone asks about these glasses. I finally gave up. Thank you for not giving up! The glasses can have very specific positive uses, but they don’t improve anyone’s quality of life.
I'm also red-green color-blind. My wife got me a pair of Enchroma years ago. It was all a secret, she paid hundreds for them at a time when hundreds was a huge deal for us. She made up an excuse to go to Home Depot and look at the paint section. There she presented them to me. Tears were had, but not from me. They didn't do a damn thing. She was really hoping it would work, I felt bad for her. Luckily she was able to return them. I was one of the many who figured "guess I'm just not lucky enough for these to work", didn't know how big of a deal this really is. As for now, I'll still have to keep calling her over to distinguish colors when I'm working on wiring harnesses lol.
Great video, excited to see the outcome of it all!
Thank you for your story, and I’m sorry that was your experience.
I am sure there are plenty of apps that can tell you the color of something you point your camera at. You can use something like that instead of calling her over. Unlike the glasses this actually works.
I’m so glad I don’t have that debilitating condition! You have no idea what you’re missing!
Even being able to receive the money back, nothing pays for the disappointment that you both must had felt. I can't imagine how sad this was for her, that made a big effort in terms of time, money and expectations on this gift.
They're supposed to work outdoors in the uv light. Colors are more vivid when I use these glasses. I always assumed the reaction videos were fake because it took my eyes about 15 minutes to adjust, after the first time it was pretty instant. I'm not sure what I see when I use the enchroma glasses but again colors did pop out more vividly. When my wife looks at the images that show what colorblind people see she says my view looks sun washed among the loss of colors. The glasses I guess take away the sun washed view.
Fun fact: i did the test on their website, i have normal color vision. It correctly identified me as having normal color vision. They tried to sell me the deutan glasses anyways. Because it would let me see *even more* color. Weird.
Well... Did you get your pair in the mail yet?? 😂
I have perfect color vision, scoring a zero on the x-rite color hue test. Took the enchroma test and they did the same thing. Wild. Some people have zero shame.
😂 I will wait for their next version, which will hopefully have X-ray vision.
same with me, colours would be even better they claim
I did the test on enchroma, and the first time it said it "Sorry, we cannot conclude your test result." (Yeah, sure.) There was a link to restart the test, (Interesting!) and then it identified me as Protan. Then I did the test on pilestone. Mild Deutan.
Thanks for making this. As a person with color blindness, people have been telling me about these glasses since they came out, but based on my own experiences and how I know colorblindness works I knew they weren’t being truthful about what their products could do. So glad someone else is calling them out.
I'm colorblind, and I got colorblind glasses to see if they did anything. I got the flip-up ones because they were cheaper and I didn't want to waste too much money. They just change colors from one color to another. The sky turned from blue to pink, which I know is wrong. It was autumn in New England so I put them on to look at the trees. I saw more shades of colors in the trees, but I didn't trust them to be right. I never saw any brand new colors that I didn't know existed, though.
@@derrynh-NEI feel you. Im not colorblind but I've also never eaten plasmatic ions. Like those present in the sun. And I lack the capability to detect neutrinos. So yeah I'm basically disabled
I have tried them. They don't work. It just changes the colors. Nothing new. You have made it this far. What is it really going to do to help you?
@@ignaciosavi7739wat
From my understanding the best they can do is shift colors so that they're more in the range of what you can see so that you can tell apart colors that you couldn't otherwise. But that comes at the cost of making the colors wrong because you have to push a wider spectrum in a smaller one. There's no way that glasses magically make you actually see more colors. It's like shifting infrared and ultraviolet into visible colors because humans can't see that in general
As someone who has severe color blindness and the enchroma glasses this was my personal experience:
I tried them on for the first time on a hike and I was honestly surprised. For me, what the glasses did was make colors much more realistic, and it made it MUCH easier to distinguish between color schemes and by making each individual color “pure”, instead making all the colors ambiguous. When I take my enchromas off, that’s when I realize how color blind I really am because the color scheme looks completely off without them. Honestly though, I was expecting better. I can’t perfectly see colors, but I’d still say that they allow me to see colors in a way which I’d never experienced before. Overall though, I estimate the glasses fix my color blindness by approximately 20-30%, which is not a fix by any means but still a huge improvement.
TDLR: the glasses emphasize color differences very well and allow me to distinguish colors better, but don’t expect them to cure your color blindness.
I called BS on these from day one. The people around me called me a grumpy curmudgeon because I didn't believe the videos, especially after hearing that it works by filtering OUT color. My friends got me a pair as a gift and were upset when I didn't break into tears like the videos. At which point some of them started accusing me of faking being colorblind. Or that I was faking them doing nothing to prove a point. They couldn't wrap their heads around the possibility that the videos on the internet were lying, not me.
drop the sheep, u deserve better friends.
😂 People lying on the internet?! Impossible! Dude, you got some crazy friends, no offense
@@derpestarzt I wish I had friends that went out of their way to buy me colorblindness glasses. Sounds like some thoughtful, caring friends to me.
@@nickthompson1812You're missing the part where they deny OPs reality and don't have any trust. That's not what friendship is. Do not be envious
@@nickthompson1812 Sounds more like trying to prove them wrong tbh. Take off the rose tinted glasses
Those scammers are getting
caught red/green handed
lmao
😂😂😂
@bob5945cool
Idk kinda hard to tell still, the case against them isn't black and white
I don't get it - why would they be caught brown/brown handed?
I've known I'm colorblind since around 16 years old. A few years later I was applying to the LAPD, and during my physical, they perform color-blind testing, they make you line up the little cups too (so frustrating). I was telling all of the clinical staff that I knew I was color blind, but I had to do the test anyway. At the end of the physical testing, the physician came in and gave me my results. He say's " I'm sorry to tell you this"...I think he's going to tell me something is wrong with my heart or something...."you're colorblind" I couldn't help but laugh, he made it seem like he was giving me a terminal diagnosis
Lol I can imagine the physician doing it very overdramatic serious face like in a soap drama or something
Haha idiots, you even told them before
They just wanted to prove their job is worth the money you are paying them.
@blazingarrows6117 probably watching too much Grey's
don't join the LAPD, one of the biggest gang of crooks in blue suits in the country
one of my exes was red-green colorblind and i think these were just coming out when i was dating him. i was younger and didnt understand the science behind colorblindness so i almost gave it a try until i asked more questions and paid more attention to him. his favorite color was red, his favorite decorative holiday was christmas. he didnt "not see red", he just saw it different-- as shades of brownish yellow. and the brain knows what colors belong where due to context clues most of the time, especially if one's eyes are particularly keen to contrast levels.
he wouldnt struggle to pick out apples between red or green because he knows that red apples have richer colors than green apples most of the time. he can tell the difference between red and green together because his brain just identifies these particular shades as "i've seen this on an object only known to be red, so this is probably also that color if it looks exactly the same." ya know, kinda like most people would with colors.
As a non-colour blind person, can confirm this is what colour looks like. The world is magenta for us.
Seems to be going more and more red for me, along with the increasing frequency by which steam is released through my ears
@@masondegaulle5731you must levitate when seeing a pie on a windowsill
And for deaf people, as someone that can hear i must tell you that the sun is VERY loud
@@blar2112 I hate the sound that smiling makes.
What's magenta mate? Does the fish know what water is?
My parents got me a pair, I felt too bad to tell them they did very little other than adding a little saturation, I like them though, makes things look less grey but price is just a plain scam
On the bright side, you have amazing parents! It’s an incredibly thoughtful gift. Just a shame they advertise them as something they’re not. But at least you still like them
Yeah that always sucks when someone buys you a gift that was falsely advertised or just doesn't work and you don't want to make them feel bad or feel like a sucker
You should probably tell them, before they fall for the scam again for a friend or other family member...
Gonna suck but you are right@@DashingToJapan
I can't imagine being a kid thinking I'm about to see color for the first time in my life, only to be devastated once you actually put the glasses on. Would be absolutely crushing. Poor kids
Imagine being the kids forced to make these fake videos too
I'm colourblind. We still see colour. We're just missing lots of them. I got the glasses and was expecting everything to be almost neon. They made a difference for me. They're not perfect but they let me see purple for the first time. They make reds stand out, separate pinks and greys, add a lot more shades of green. I've seen cartoon rainbows that always have distinctive stripes, in real life I used to just see 2 stripes, with the glasses a see them all, bit still not entirely sure what colours they are
@@kris2384...so they work?
@@kris2384... - But your not actually seeing new colors. The glasses might shift the frequency of the light passing through them around a bit, but that will inevitably affected the colors you could already see as well, so maybe you can see what should be purple in a way you couldn't before, but you will lose something somewhere else to make that gain.
It's certainly possible these trade offs are still an overall positive, but to say anyone is seeing colors they couldn't see before is just wrong.
@@Faladrin You're correct, they wouldn't be seeing the actual colors, but likely only just seeing differences between light and dark better. If your body is missing the color receptors there is nothing you can do about it, you'll never really see the full color range unless they can change your eyeballs out and even then your brain probably isn't wired for it due to that part of the brain not being used.
I have blue light filtering glasses that i wear all the time, and they do help differentiate browns and greens easier, but i think thats because the yellow tint makes the greens brighter. Nothing scientific, but something ive noticed that helps. I cant imagine how a bright red tint would help at all though.
I have at least 5 friends who have colorblindness. Years ago one of them tried one of these glasses and they said "I would rather not having eyes than wearing these.. whatever they are"
They told that to relatives and others but no one really listen to him, some even thought he was being ungrateful. The glasses did bring tear to his eyes... for how it insult him and his trust.
Wow this is pure ableism and gaslighting
Horrible people.
I'm glad you're not messed up like them
I feel sad for your friend
@@nussknacker9827 Don't confuse horrible people with ignorant people. Language is important, and quite specific when used correctly.
@@shaynelowe9604 No..? They literally thought he was just ungrateful rather than assuming that perhaps the glasses themselves were a problem.
Ignorance is not thinking that a pair of glasses are right over someone you know.
@@HCR_ Or he didn't express himself well.
@@shaynelowe9604 not ignorant, horrible. It just happen that most people are both.
You should've done the colorblind test from their website with their glasses on.
It would be funny if they still diagnosed you with colorblindness in contrast to their own claims hahaha.
Here's the thing. I own a pair. If I take it with them, I get a normal color vision result. Without, mild deutan.
Im exactly the same, they have helped a lot with differentiating shades in my everyday life. @@allogogan2648
I have normal color vision, took their test which confirmed that - and they still tried selling me a pair.
@@allogogan2648 Yeah, no way it wasn't going to be a heavily biased test that would make their glasses look good.
I took it with normal vision and they still tried to sell me glasses lol.
Also, their test has a toggle that you enable if you're using their glasses, I assume enabling that toggle would bullshit the test to make it appear to work.
My guess is it's there so they can say "see it works!" and if you don't toggle it they can say "no, you did the test wrong".
If you select the toggle that says "I'm wearing enchroma glasses", their test seems to skip over the hardest tests and doesn't do the control at all where it shows an empty circle
Lmfao wow
I’m not seeing an empty circle at all. Perhaps you can share this with me by dming me on twitter
I didn't get an empty circle OR an "I'm wearing enchroma glasses" toggle but that didn't stop them from trying to sell me their "Outdoor Deutan lenses" which "can boost your colour perception even more" when I got a perfect score 🙃
"empty circle" hmmmmmmmm
@@MegaLag its just a circle that instead of having two different colors has the same color or no number at all, enchroma's test is randomized though so chances are you didn't get it
Huge blue flag 😂 5:30
😂
I took the enChroma test and my results came that I have no color blindness, but was still advertised to buy glasses that would increase vibrancy outdoors. They really want money regardless if you are color blind or not.
Yeah, I took the enChroma test and the results were normal (not colorblind), then took Pilestone test (competitor) and got mild deutan color blindness every time, even though I could clearly see the number on every slide without trouble (there is no way I didn't get 100% correct).
So I took several more tests from different sites that were not trying to sell me glasses, with several types of different colorblind tests, and all tests came back normal no color blindness.
They are missing out on a huge market. I, like you, suffer from seeing color. They need to make some contact lenses that make us see the world as someone who is color blind would. Then we could buy the glasses to fix the color blindess caused by the contacts.
Orange, yellow or pink glasses can really ramp up contrast in certain light conditions like twilight or heavy snow. But, I think, colour perception could somewhat suffer with them.
To be fair, my enchroma sunglasses are the best sunglasses I've ever worn.
They do help a few colors stand out as green that look white to me without them (confirmed with non-colorblind folks that it is in fact green).
@@niko7903 For the pilestone test, the first time I took also said I am deutan color blind, but then I found sometimes after you go to the next question it shows the same number but after a second or so it change to another, if I wait a few seconds for each question to make sure I didn't answer before it changes then my result is normal. My guess is if you click too fast before the display updates they will count you as wrong. It is all due to bad programming on their side.
Dang. I always thought it was weird that they knew the colors they’d never seen, but I didn’t think these people were just LYING.
to be fair color blind doesnt have tó mean no colors at all but less than a normal eye can see
@@mrdoesntmatter9202 very true. i imagine most people aren't aware that there are something like 7 different types of colorblindness (if i'm remembering correctly).
@@mrdoesntmatter9202We know and in those videos most people say they see a lot of brown and red
I suspect some of the influencers reviewing the glasses may not be lying per se; it might just be psychosomatic. We humans are highly suggestible creatures.
The word itself is misleading.
I have to admit I wasn't expecting the phrase "seeing the world through rose colored glasses" to become an actual reality.
About to comment it😂
HAH! Was thinking the same thing!
@@AnimeFreak40K I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see.
The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem.
1. Price, they are massively ovepriced
2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked
3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this.
Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons.
Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over.
The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING.
Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP.
THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!!
Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*.
Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior.
Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
Ok but if you ignore the fact that people are getting scammed it's actually kinda funny that color correct people have gaslit colorblind people into thinking we see everything like we're in a Doom Eternal level
Hi, I am tritanopia type color blind and husband got me correcting glasses (not the brand you mentioned here). It shifted the hues so that green and blue looked completely different, or pink and yellow (colors I can’t distinguish next to each other). It basically made blues intense and the greens stayed subtle, so it made me see the difference BUT I didn’t suddenly see colors. I’m not sure if it makes sense. It was underwhelming and a waste of 80$, but I use them sometimes if I need to for work.
tritan here, was considering getting some and this confirms "no"
As someone who is red-green colorblind, I own a pair of corrective glasses that can help me distinguish between tones of colors with reds and greens in them. While the glasses cannot make me perceive colors that I have never seen before, they do help me to see a difference in the color without relying on shape recognition. Without the glasses, I can only see the red strawberries that are not partially covered by a leaf. My brain recognizes the shape and "fills in" what I believe to be red. If the berries are partially covered, it's harder to recognize the shape and it just "blends in" with the green of the leaves. However, if I wear the glasses, it makes reds more vivid and greens more distinct, to the point where I can see a difference in the color. But the glasses also affect all colors I can see, and some colors that I really like become dull and unpleasant. For example, a bright red will change to orange for me. However, blue becomes way more intense, which I like. While this doesn't necessarily change my life, it is a way to alter my perception of the world that can sometimes come in handy.
Maybe they should be marketed as "strawberry picking glasses" 😆🍓
This makes sense as the video showed that the green became darker from the lenses. Thanks for the comment
I have had a similar experience with my Pilestones. The video of people getting choked up HAVE to be staged. It mostly makes everything rose-tinted. That said, I DO do slightly better on the tests, and it has helped me get a little more used to what color things are supposed to be. E.g. Green traffic likes look green, so it's reprogramed my brain to see them as more green instead of off-white.
Same here, I have a pair of Enchromas and I concluded long ago that all they do is help with colour separation, and for me they do that very well.
Best comment. Thanks for giving us another perspective!
Your story sounds exactly like mine. I didn't realize I was colorblind until psychology class in college when I was the only student who couldn't see the hidden number in the test. Fast forward 10 years when my coworker bought $400 enchroma glasses for his dad only to realize his dad isn't colorblind, lol. He let me try them before returning. Not only did nothing happen, the instructions said it could take months of wearing them to notice a change. I assume those months of wearing lands you outside of their return policy.
I was thinking that precisely-- they want you to wait just long enough so that you can't return them. Though according to the reviews, it's tough to get a refund anyway
Months???
Months???
Where did you live where there wasn't eye tests as a kid? Even in elementary school we had them.
@@mediocreman2 North Carolina
They function entirely on the fact that (for example) a red light and a blue light both result in purple combined light, but there is also purple wavelength light that is perceived as exactly the same purple colour, but has neither red nor blue wavelengths. That’s why a kid knows what orange looks like (he has seen true orange wavelength light before) even though a different object that we see as orange might look yellow to him because that particular object is not really reflecting orange wavelengths but rather red and yellow wavelengths that we are perceiving as orange in combination. Maybe he cannot perceive the deep red wavelength, only the yellow. Whereas an object that is truly only reflecting specifically orange wavelengths is not affected by his inability to see deep red.
This video needs to get more attention!
As a colorblind photographer, I have been thinking about buying enchroma glasses many times, but just couldn't get myself to spend that much money, especially as I was already doubting their true ability to help (as your receptors will not begin to see new colors). Thanks for proofing my concers and helping others save money!
What - you take pictures of colour blind people? :-)
I'm not even colorblind but I've known this for a long time. On their website, I remember it even saying that these glasses only strengthen the contrast within the range of already perceived colors.
I actually had an art teacher who had these glasses. He said that while it didn't fix how he saw color it did help him distinguish different shades of paint so I guess it's just expectations
If that was the claim they made I'd agree, but since they claim to let you see new colors it's pretty scamy. I'm colorblind and being able to differentiate colors would be nice sometimes, not $300 nice, but maybe $50 nice lol.
The video talks about this. Some shades are easier to distinguish while others become much harder to tell apart. So it's likely your art teacher was seeing some shades as the same and not realizing it. In the end, these glasses likely dont really help anyone much at all.
If your issue is red green, wearing red tinted glasses will force greens duller and reds brighter before they hit your eyes. So you can recognize them by their saturation rather than their actual colour.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 it's been years but I thought they were very conservative about expectations. They said your vision would not be as good as a normal person. And they definitely said that it was only going to help people with moderate to mild color deficiency. The viral marketing on the other hand was over the top
@@CRneunah, you try things with the glasses on and off. Flowers and trees become much easier to distinguish for me.
They're absolutely not a silver bullet. They aren't giving you new colors. But it's really nice to see the difference sometimes
"That was a huge blue flag for me". That was a great and probably mostly unnoticed joke.
Lol i noticed it too. That made me chuckle 😂
I sincerely doubt it was mostly unnoticed. :)
@@oskarlilja8763 Haha! I actually didn't realize it!
I couldn't tell the difference
I was scrolling down in the comments to find this comment🤣😭
As a kid, I never understood how such a thing could possibly work, I was really into science and had read up on how light works and how eyes perceive them, I didn't understand how glasses could somehow correct a biological issue, and inability to perceive colors normally, it didn't make sense and just passed it off as some not worth looking into. I was right to be skeptical, you'd have to literally replace your eyes, or have your brain rewired in some extreme cases. I'd imagine in the future, surgery could possibly correct it, but we're not close to that now. It's sickening, can you imagine if this scam was for something else, a more severe issue, like being completely blind? a company that claimed to cure blindness and didn't would almost certainly be shut down
The fact people lie about colour corrective solutions annoys me to no end, I’m colourblind and because of that, 2 (or more) important areas of the rail industry that I would love to work in, I can’t. I can’t pursue my dream job because of it and people make money of claiming to fix it but not delivering is infuriating
Just lie about it. If they test your vision you can just be like 'oh fuck I had no idea.' But they're not going to, and it won't come up in work, and if it does, chances are you'll have coworkers who can help.
@@coldravioli7839 to get the required rail medical, you need to pass a test (ask me how I know) and to be a driver or signaller, you don't have someone next to you to tell you the colours
Yeah, it is. But I also think the requirements for a totally "normal" colour perception are too strict. Of course, if the world literally looks black and white to you I can understand why you can't become a pilot/captain/train driver, but most so-called colour blind people have no problems discerning between blue, red, yellow and green lights, so I believe it's wrong to simply dismiss applicants on the grounds of a failed Ishihara test only. It's not like it's a tiny minority who are affected (amongst males, at least.)
Many years ago I read about an American pilot who, knowing he had a colour deficiency, found out what test set was used and then purchased the exact same set and learned it by heart before going to the be tested, but I don't know if that's feasible anymore.
@@bigredracingteam9642 I am able to take some better tests however it costs over $600 just to attempt it which I won't be doing any time soon
Social media and the desire to be influential are really ruining a lot of things. You can't really believe anything you see on social media because there is a constant race to the bottom. Everyone justifies lying because it's so pervasive and they don't see anything wrong with it because so many folks are doing it.
For me personally, as soon as I see someone promoting any brand whatsoever, I unfollow and block them. That completely taints my ability to trust them.
What's hilarious is that I have normal color vision, tested as having normal color vision on the Enchroma test and they still marketed the glasses to me as a way to "Make my color vision more vibrant".
I have the same what a marketing.. lol
You know what else makes colours more virbant?
Mushroom
@@abel6298 wait does reading a particular edition of the bible text increase the number of cones in your eyes?
I remember wearing blue tinted glasses and thought everything looked more vibrant until I took them off and everything looked pee yellow.
@@StevDoesBigJumpsand ac!d
The best proof this doesn't work is the lack of people who keep wearing them after the initial unboxing videos. Fantastic video, and I'm defs curious to check out more of your content 😄
You’re not wrong! Thanks for watching :)
Looking forward to part two!
I bought my glasses at colordrop. I couldn‘t spot any new color but it helped me to spot red purple and blue tones better. I have protanopia.
The Main reason i can‘t wear them all the time is because of the sunglass look people creeping out if im wearing them indoor and it also it decrease the brightness.
So in mainly using them if i want to check my paintings of some odd used color or if i get feedback that something is odd.
@MegaLag I would be interested how do you color correct and detecting issues resulting from your Deuteranopia
That explains why I've never heard much about them after their initial video. Interesting pointer.
Color blind dude here... my loving wife got me a pair a few years ago. Thankfully, they had a full refund trial available. They were reboxed that same morning.
Not every day you come across meaningful journalism. Thank you for your work
Thank you for making this! I knew these were a scam from day one because their "science" didn't make sense.
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You’re most welcome. Thanks for watching!
Damn. I fell for this. I mean, I am not colorblind. I can read all the numbers in those diagrams, but I guess I wanted it to be true for the colorblind people.
Me too. All my friends said I was a hater for not buying into the lies. I'm poor and also not colorblind so I never bought the glasses to test them.
Exactly! There is no magic product to help me see the colors and shades I can't. Even special corrective video game display settings don't work at all.
I have normal color vision. Every time I’ve ever taken an independent color vision test, I ace it. Whenever I do the enchroma test, I get a result of “mild green color blindness”
It’s almost as though they just want people to buy their product and aren’t remotely interested in actually helping people.
Ooh, interesting. This gets scummier and scummier.
Maybe the display you used just has bad colors or something? I just did the enchroma test like 5 times in a row to test what you're saying, it said "normal vision" every time.
You probably have some mild colorblindness if you're not passing the test because it's fine
@@AsdAsd-ph2hn Maybe they missdiagnose some random folks based on IP
Some of the pictures at the end have super low contrast ie same level of saturation/ luminosity which makes it harder to tell the number in it even though the hues are different. I got normal vision probably only bc I'm use to those games where you spot something camoflaged in there
The colorblindness occurs due to a defect in cones. A pair of glasses could never fix that.
I feel like it's easy for people's minds to draw parallels to something like hearing aids, where just sticking a little device in your ear suddenly makes hearing better. When in reality, hearing aids are not a passive filter like these glasses, but rather an active amplifier/filter combination, and nowadays with quite sophisticated DSP built in thats able to be tuned to specific deficiencies amongst other neat features (bluetooth and what-not). And all this to say, if you are completely deaf, no amount of SPL will be able to overcome that. After a point, you're just experiencing vibrations, which is in my mind is equivalent to reading braille for the blind.
TL;DR, I could see these glasses being helpful in a more individually tuned and/or dynamically adjusting factor, but severely overblown pink party glasses ain't it chief lol.
Truth. I can't see ultraviolet, like most humans. You can get me a pair of glasses that will let me see it, by filtering the light selectively. Can I see a new color? No. But now I can pass a test that says I can see ultraviolet.
Shorter: the glasses work by cheating and changing the color of things to colors you can see, which might help some people, but based on this reporting does not.
The reasoning I know behind this is that for red/green colourblindness the issue is that your red and green cones basically react to the same light hues.
If that is fully the case, theres no hope and help.
But apart from extreme cases the spectrum they react to doesn't fully overlap, so exteme green and extreme red do not trigger the other cone, but everything in between does.
So to reliably distinguish red and green, you need to avoid the in between hues, eg. make reds redder and greens greener.
But this does not give new colours, just make you able to distinguish more shades.
And that's only if it works at all.
@@Wiresgalore those pink colored party lenses give "rose colored glasses" a whole new context!
@@edwardallenthree Run at a wall. The colour that flashes in bursts behind your eyes, behind the pain, just before you die, is (Ultra Violet) infra-black. Good Omens Terry Pratchett. So no need for these glasses then! 😝
This is really sad. I'm not colorblind but I have astigmatism, and when I put glasses on for the first time I was almost in tears, because I could finally see things properly and everything looked more bright and sharp. So when I saw those colorblind videos I thought they kinda had the same experience.
Colors are so important to me as an artist, and to think some people can't see what I'm seeing is very sad. And now to think people were scamming others in this...
No need to feel sad for the colorblind.
I'm colorblind (or color deficient, very very few people are actually full out color blind). And I'm not an artist, so color isn't important in my life. I can probably see 60% of colors out there properly and I enjoy the colors that I can see.
mild color deficient here, dont worry about it, I discovered my color blindness 10 years ago(at 25yo) and besides from a really small number of situations it never changed anything in my life...
To be honest the only issue is that I can't see the green light on traffic lights during sunny days (they look like its turned off) but I can see both the red and yellow, so if the traffic light blinked red/yellow, is currently "off" and other cars on my street are going through I know that its actually green lol
@@iujiujisato807
Interesting... for me it is the RED light that looks like it is off on a sunny day. So if all lights look off I assume it is red.
The green looks white to me. It wasn't that long ago that I learned that the "walk" signal and the green light at the traffic light weren't the same color.
Optometrist here, out of curiosity, how strong was your astigmatism?
I had something similar. I discovered I have astigmatism when I put my friend's glasses on as a joke and was shocked how much better I could see. Her prescription must have been similar to what I didn't know I needed.
After getting glasses, I realized that it was indeed not normal to look at the floor when walking, but I didn't know because I was looking down myself!
I’m so glad someone finally researched this. I am not color blind but my dad has some level of tritanopia. I have a decent basic scientific understanding and always had a hard time imagining a mechanism of action for these glasses. It always just sounded like woo woo. So glad to find my theory validated. Great video.
The science behind the glasses is very sound, the miracle promises from the companies are not. The lies in their marketing is just the worst kind of unethical fraud.
The mechanism for the glasses that *I* know work is that the lenses aren't the same color. One's clear, one's kind of orangey. So your brain eventually (a couple weeks) figures out what the difference in the two eyes is, and starts filling in colors.
@@darrennew8211that sounds like a $10 mechanism. If it did any good, I'd think we'd hear about colorblind people wearing normal glasses with cellophane over one lens to help them distinguish colors.
@@darrennew8211 so it's a placebo.
We've been debating this with my wife for over a year. That pretty much aligns with what I anticipated.
Basically these glasses work by making you "all color deficient" - the idea is to level out your ability to see different base colors until you see them more or less the same way.
And it is achieved by making you nearly truly color blind, until your senses start to pick very very subtle differences, as if you were trying to see shapes in darkness.
I would much rather see a very vibrant world and I accept the fact I may not be able to name all colors properly. But I would certainly cry, too, knowing that my wife paid for these half grand.
Thank you for the video!!!
I think you're right on the money, and it's why this video seems less-than-fully-thought-out.
When you're indoors in normal lighting conditions (i.e. not stage lights), you're going to have a harder time distinguishing colors than when outside. I think we all know that from experience.
They specifically recommend wearing these outdoors because it's the only typical environment with sufficient lighting to get the effect. This video didn't do that.
This video also didn't go outdoors in full sunlight and repeat the color blindness test with reflected, not emitted, light.
Yes, if you compare things indoors it's just going to be muddier and red shifted.
But if you compare outdoor perception with sunglasses to outdoor perception with these, there really should be an improvement in ability to distinguish colors (as long as the shifts line up correctly). It's not a terribly complicated concept underneath: just block out more of the wavelengths you can see well, and less of the colors you can see poorly.
Also, holding these up to a camera or saying "it's so red!" is a little silly. That's like holding a pair of glasses up to a camera and saying "wow look how messed up the focus is!" It's all relative to your eyes, not to the camera's perception, and if it's working everything *should* look more red, since your red cones don't work properly.
Idk, I haven't tried them myself but I want to. If anyone who got these for whom they didn't work wants to send them to me, I'll pay for shipping and give an honest review (no affiliate links or reposts allowed). If they don't work, I won't be able to distinguish colors outdoors; if they do, I'll be able to. I guess the only thing you'd have to trust me on is that I'm actually color blind and that I don't have someone behind the scenes feeding me the answers.
@@a11aaa11a hmm
- the kid naming balloon colors is clearly indoors, so per the (staged) ad, the glasses are supposed to work indoors
- the preview in this video of how glasses affect vision is clearly done outdoors multiple times. Have you seen it?
- if orange and red colors look similar when captured with a sensor that is not suffering from color blindness, argument can be made that wearing the glasses makes you even more color blind than you would otherwise be.
I do agree that your sight will adapt to hue change eventually. I do understand the concept of leveling out your perception of different base colors in an effort to help you see colors you can see. But I don't think the world you see will be vibrant - quite the contrary: it will be tinted and dim. And the footage shows this.
I don't think the video aims at talking you out of the purchase. It's your choice, your money. I support you buying them if you feel like doing that. It only aims at giving you more information that, contrary to official promotional videos, is not sponsored in any way
@@TomaszWiszkowski sorry just to be clear this video definitely has a ton of value and the companies' practices are shady and, I'd say, prob illegal. The balloon kids and fake influencer vids are horrible, and I don't want to give them my money after seeing that.
I'm just curious whether it actually works as I'd expect. Yes, it will be dimmer than not wearing sunglasses, but will it be more distinguishable? The poster of this video could have been a more reliable piece of evidence for that question, but I fear they missed a core way to test (hopefully unintentionally, but I always fear it's for the sake of pushing a narrative/getting views)
@@a11aaa11aHe literally put the lenses on the camera. You will see it exactly that way. There is no mystery.
Certainly not $500 worth
@TomaszWiszkowski they have indoor and outdoor
14:22 why does a colour-blind glasses company need to get approved by the FOOD and DRUG association ?
I asked a eye surgeon who also did research on eye health about the colorblind glasses. He had a set of the real, prescription, high priced glasses. They looked slightly blue. With my normal, but perhaps somewhat trained eyes, I noticed that light yellow and light grey were less distinct, if not indistinguishable. Other than that they made no real difference. He explained that yellow is actually where both the red and green cones are firing about as much. Some people with red-green colorblindness have a little too much overlap in the sensitivity of their red and green receptors. For these people, removing some of the yellow wavelengths greatly improves their perception of red and green, at the cost of some yellow-white perception. They don't work for everyone because some people either have too much overlap or one set of receptors really doesn't work well at all. Basically not all red-green colorblindness is the same.
It sounds like these types of glasses can help a very small percentage of people. But, the market is too small to be financially viable, so they market/hype them to all sorts of "specific colorblindness" with grandiose promises and claims.
They were never meant to be used this way, this was just a byproduct. But yes, exactly this, plus the science I didn't know
@@jovetj they have tests on their site to help you determine what kind of colorblindness you have.
It's more honest that this video that is portraying colorblindness as a one size fits all problem.
This is the best explanation of how the glasses work I have read! Thank you. 👍🏼☺️☺️
Unfortunately that means the glasses "fix" colourblindness by making you colourblind in another way, which is definitely not as advertised.
OH MY GOD. I totally believed these reaction videos. Not all of them obviously.. but some of them looked SO authentic. I can't believe I was fooled!!
Misinformation at its worst
some of them are genuine. this need more deeper research
If you can't believe that you were fooled, you think too highly of yourself.
Same
Glad I don't just automatically believe stuff in life. There's no room for naivety nowadays
I can explain the reason for emotional reaction…. As a colorblind person I had looked into getting these glasses form enchroma but they were too expensive. When I received them as a gift from someone I felt emotional that someone would spend that much money on me. I was almost crying before even putting them on… when I put them on everyone was watching and expecting this big ordeal of a reaction, and unfortunately they didn’t get the reaction they were expecting… I had the same reaction as you… everything just more purple.
Yes, thoughtful gift from someone you care about, and its easy to get emotional, regardless if they work or not.
@@caerrb.395 And thats how they successfully promoted the glasses. Social pressure.
Yes, it's the social pressure that does it. Someone spent all that money and now they're expecting a reaction and you don't want to humiliate them.
People who expect a reaction because they have given someone something are really giving a gift for selfish reasons. @@wwondertwin
That’s amazing! I used to work in film as a color corrector and can’t imagine someone doing this work without full color vision. Props to you! 👏🏻
So I am red green color blind, but I mostly struggle with green, like I can barely identify green. I went to optometrist and got custom prescription color blindness glasses. They are FAR better than the ones online. There is a blue tint but its minimal. They really help with green and I genuinely teared up when I went outside. They arent perfect and there are times where they aren't worth it, but they really help me differentiate green from grey brown and black. Before I got the prescription ones, I tried Pilestone glasses. They were ketchup red and were awful. So if anyone wants actual improvement you may want to look into seeing an optometrist. The doctor was honest and said that the glasses weren't magical and they cant replicate normal vision but grass being green and not brown is something I will take.
Whats grass look like when its dying without the glasses? Can u see yellow?
This is sort of my experience with Enchroma. It makes the greens and reds pop and everything just looks more beautiful. But they also make it so certain colors become confused instead (such as blue and pink). Overall I like to wear them to see nature, and they were worth it for me for this reason only. But they've never actually helped me "see new colors" or even distinguish consistently between colors that I normally confuse.
I tried to get some custom made glasses, but it seems there is not even a market for it in my country. So I just use contrast enhancing glasses, works fine too.
For me grass was always more red. It's nice to read all these posts as it helps to remember that not all colorblindness is the same. There are many varieties and there won't be a single cure-all. I guess you can "normalize" the spectrum, but by now my brain has used the extra capacity for texture detection so my vision is pretty sharp
@@fluffylilmarshmallow4525 Stop defending those scam artists. You should be ashamed of yourself, like they should be if they actually had enough humanity to feel shame for exploiting their viewers like that.
I KNEW IT I FEEL SO VINDICATED, I’m colorblind and for years I’ve been telling people these are a scam and no one would listen
Yes! I put them on the first time and thought, ugggh red is a really obnoxious color. After that I kept telling my wife that every one of those reactions were bullshit. So she accused me of being dead inside and not allowing myself to feel emotions. The reaction videos weren’t fake, I was just a terrible person
@@kootermccoglin6915man show this to your wife daaamn
That’s crazy people arent believing you when you’re the one who is colorblind
I'm not colorblind but hearing about these I didn't see how glasses could correct for the cause of colorblindness as I understood it. I never heard anything to the contrary and it didn't affect me though so my questioning never went further than that.
I have had so many people try to "open my eyes" to the glasses. I don't make a big deal out of my color deficiency, but most people that know me are well aware of it. It is such a facination for people who have normal color vision for some reason.
But, every time someone has mentioned these glasses, I have always told them that they might make reds/greens more vibrant, they are going to mute blues, yellows or other colors, because that is just how light works. You can't change 1 color without altering all colors.
There is never going to be a passive effect glasses that will ever correct any form of color blindness. The only way this will ever be possible is to have some type of active effect glasses that utilize a camera that you are viewing the environment through. This would use software to enhance the colors that a CVD struggles with, while leaving others alone. The lens themselves would have some type of embedded screen in them that you would actually view the world through. And, the software would have to be specifically calibrated for each individual. So, glasses that work for me, would likely not work for any other person.
5:32 I giggled when you said "So that was a huge blue flag for me."
Subtle
I see so many negative comments but I bought a pair, found them on sale through Best Buy for $100 because $300 is crazy to me, but Ive honestly been satisfied with the glasses I bought. No they dont "correct" your vision but for me they did help me differentiate between colors I was strugging with before. My girlfriend and I got a box of 200 different colored color pencils and I got just about all but like 3 or 4 right. I didnt name the exact color but I could tell more of what colors were mixed together to create that color vs before it was just a box of very similar colored color pencils.😅 I say all of this to say that I didn't go into the purchase believing everything I saw about them and knowing they wouldn't be a "cure" for the problem I deal with, but they have infact helped me more than they have hendored me, so I say they are at least doing something.
When these first went viral my parents were pumped to get these for me, and I had an itch that it didn’t make anysense. How could a visual aid start making a color detector in your eye work. I felt awful when a family member got me a pair, expecting me to fall to my knees with emotion and I just shrugged and said everything looks more red.
Were you able to return the glasses and get the money back?
@@nussknacker9827 Knowing these companies I would not be surprised if they hadn’t
How did they react? Feels like it was awkward
@@yoeyyoey8937 I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see.
The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem.
1. Price, they are massively ovepriced
2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked
3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this.
Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons.
Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over.
The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING.
Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP.
THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!!
Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*.
Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior.
Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
I also had a colour centric job despite being colour blind. Colour separation for making printing plates - I had to hide the fact that I was colour blind from my boss for years. Made a few slips in meetings like "for the green part we can..."
"Green? There's no green. Do mean the orange?"
"Ah yes, slip of the tongue, the orange part"
But when working on the computer I knew what colour things were by using the dropper and looking at the colour wheel.
I’m sorry but that sounds kinda funny :) sounds like the plot of some late 00’s early 10’s comedy film
@@GeeorgieBoy it does seem absolutely ridiculous, lol.
I will always trust my spectrophotometer before I trust my eyes. I was pumped when I got the glasses, thinking I could use them at work (also in printing), but while they're really pleasant to pump up colors out in the sunlight, they're about as useful as wearing sunglasses at night if you're indoors.
Great as recreational sunglasses, but by no means a cure for colorblindness, especially when color accuracy counts!!
I've done stuff like this at work too.
@GeeorgieBoy If you guys haven't seen "Ed Wood" yet, it's a must-see, and not just for the color-blindness gag.
The thing that always struck me is that people always immediately know what the colors they never saw, were called.
I know what you are.
Well, they still would have seen the colors. Their perception of said colors would have been different, though.
@icantbmajor No one asked.
@@OhmyadelineI asked.
@@OhmyadelineSorry, didn't realize I needed permission to speak. Are you going to punish me now? :3
"That was a huge blue flag for me."
I can't deny - that made me laugh. Thank you, I really needed that.
As soon as I tell someone I’m colourblind, 1 out of 3 people ask me about these glasses.
Trying to explain that glasses can’t fix my missing cone cells isn’t easy. 😆
The way I like to explain it is like polarising, if they don't get the light adding another filtering layer just isn't gonna help if anything it's gonna make it worse. Polarising lense plus polarising lense(at 90°)= no light.
First colorblind person I met was asked "Okay so those coorblind glasses are bs right?" And they were like "Yes, lied to my mom at christmass about them though."
Yeah, if you flat out only have two types of cones these would be a waste of money. They *might* work if you have 3 cones and two are close together in frequency range, AND if the glasses happen to filter out your overlap. Not worth the risk.
I'm a female with slight colorblindness. I learned when we did a color test in beauty school and i was the only one with different answers.
@Yensnipest they tread the line... using facts out of context can be very successful in marketing( see Apples recent 99% customer satisfaction") with a large part of average society. FDA approved "they will change the way you see colours" is absolutely true(as would a pair of cheap sunglasses) but it will fix the lack of cones able to see certain colours is BS but the quote on the website will do the job.
I'm not color blind. I just made the enchroma test. The result was "you're not color blind, but you can still benefit from our glasses".
Like how? 🤦🏻♀️
To wear their rose tinted glasses so that you don’t see other people’s red flags.
@@atemephii That was beyond poetic.
@@atemephiiThis is one of my new favourite comments
I just did it and got
ENCHROMA COLOUR BLIND TEST RESULTNORMAL COLOUR VISION
You have normal colour vision
which means you can see up to one million
distinct shades of colour.
But, our Outdoor Deutan lenses can boost
your colour perception even more!
I don't see how their outdoor glasses will help me if I got good colour vision
FDA approval for glasses just means the manufacturer has had them tested to make sure they don't shatter when dropped.
I dont trust fda considering theyre bought
I was gonna say, I'm not even sure what "FDA approval" even means for glasses. Considering FDA guidelines for anything OTC are quite loose (as an example, if the thing doesn't cause harm when taken/used as directed, it's cleared; the proof it works for xyz isn't very important at all; how harmful can a pair of glasses be?) I never take that claim on products very seriously.
The term “approval” is only ever used for drugs, while devices get “cleared.” Glasses would certainly be devices, not drugs, so it is actually illegal for them to claim they are FDA “approved.” If you’re curious, clearing a device often requires little more than showing yours is similar to a device that already exists. While approval means experimental evidence of both safety and efficacy for a drug
Same with "Military Grade", which in reality = made by the lowest bidder.
it means they arenr dangerous, but like how coule they be
15:04 just insane they thought that claiming their GLASSES was FDA approved would be good idea, for an administration that's the "food and drug administration"
I'm so glad you addressed my first concern with these reactions: if they've never seen a particular color, how DO they know what color it is? A more believable reaction would be: wow, what's THAT one? And THIS one? 😂
I think that's any critical thinker's first impression. Big red flag there. I do believe I saw 1 video that thought about this and what they did was give them a card after they had the glasses on that had the colors written on it. So I'll at least give that scammer credit for thinking of it.
Exactly, however, color blind people obviously know what certain colors look like due to their shade. They might not be able to see "red," but if the glasses help them distinguish certain shades/colors better, then of course they'll immediately be like "whoa, is that red?"
colorblind people dont see in black and white, they still know which colors are which, they just look different to them, or they might have trouble telling certain colors apart. even if the glasses only slightly improve the perception of contrast for example theyll still easily know what color theyre looking at, theyve been seeing them all their life, just not how we do
the glasses are rly sketchy though, straight up fraud
I'm hesitant to agree with you because colorblindness doesn't mean seeing the world in black and white. Usually people just lack the variation of shades, or confuse 2 colors (red and green for example). Just look at the colorblind tests.
In one of the videos I saw of people trying these on, the guy said that he hadn't ever seen so many shades of green on the trees and grass of his backyard. A friend of mine would find this glasses useful because our university used to have graphs that exclusively used red and green on their entrance exams. If the glasses make it possible to distinguish two shades, then they work. What guarantees that my green is the same as your green, even if we both have perfect eyesight?
As a partially colorblind person, you don’t need to ask what color something is if you’ve been told it 100 times; grass is green, trees are brown, sky is blue, etc.
Thanks for bringing this scam to light. I’m colorblind in deuteranomaly and have tried on those glasses. I thought they were a scam too. All they did was make the world look vivid. They were also $200 and I thought no way those glasses that have a slight tint to them can cost $200. I saw all the viral videos online and thought maybe my glasses were broken, but as I watched more videos it looked even more fake. I returned the glasses and got my money back.
I‘m near-sighted, and 100 € per glass is a reasonable price. Though, my glasses actually do the thing they’re supposed to do… just wanted to throw this in:
Artificial-glass lenses for your personal vision, that have been treated to massively reduce reflections, cost 100 € each, so 200 € in total, in exchange for being able to see.
It’s great to hear that you got your money back! Kinda, sorta, happy ending… ^^
O thank God!!! I was so afraid everyone got robbed!
As a colorblind person, since the first time I saw something about those glasses, I called bullshit. Many people from my family asked me if I wanted one but I always said no because the technology behind it didn’t really make sense to me. I’m not a doctor but I’m an electrical engineer and understand how light works. Well, thanks god I went with my gut and didn’t buy it.
Well, i can confirm from an optometry side of things. Color blindness is the problem that starts with cones inside your eye, you have green cones, red cones and blue cones, just like RGB.
With colorblind people, one or more type of cones don't work right.
There is no way of fixing cones with glasses. you can only increase contrast between the cones that are working.
So, in summary, you will never see colors that you cannot see.
Yet you probably took the "safe and effective" and every quarterly booster.
If someone gave you a free pair, would you try them and give them an objective evaluation?
@@Mikee512I believe I would. But using it for a week straight, not sure about that.
@@Mikee512 There is no reason to, really. The glasses shift your contrast and hue a bit, but they do not allow you to see colors that you normally cannot. That's because you can't change anything with your inner cones.
i took enchroma’s test and as someone without color blindness, it offered me glasses to “take my color vision to the next level”. suuuure
Thank you! I’m profoundly colorblind (diagnosed when I was 3), and I’m always being asked about these and forwarded such videos. I’m always explaining how it has to be a scam, and had to repeatedly tell family members NOT to buy some for me, especially given the price. I don’t mind being colorblind, and it’s a great conversation starter. I’m almost always the first in my family to spot wildlife, which I think is because I’m colorblind and am extra sensitive to movement and patterns to compensate for not seeing color well. Thanks again for exposing these silly glasses and videos.
You and me both.. it has never stopped me doing anything & other than an embarrassing game of Uno with friends & questions of “what does this look like to you?”, it hasn’t had any impact on my life!
You might be more in tune with the rod cells. Cats and dogs are also "profusely colourblind", but the rod cells are what allows them to see and track movement, especially in low light. That's a pretty cool thing, I wonder if this means colourblindness is an adaptation for us, which is why its stuck around. Perhaps colourblind individuals were responsible for defense and brought into hunting parties more often during our hunter-gatherer times.
The wildlife spotting thing is real. My colorblind son (he has Deuteranomoly) has the keenest eyes in the family when it comes to spotting birds or animals in the wild. We call it his superpower. When the glasses were new, I took him to an optometrist who carried them so he could try them out. I was going to buy them as an expensive gift. He put them on, looked around, shrugged, and said “these don’t do much.” He didn’t want them. We didn’t buy them.
Great video, very informative.
That's funny you mention detecting wildlife. Humans have the ability to see more shades of green than any other color, because it gave us an advantage while hunting or detecting predators. It almost sounds like your other hunting tools have been sharpened in response to losing one. Same way your ears get sharper when you go blind I suppose
The video ended extremely abruptly 😂 That being said though, I really was suspicious of these things the whole time. The red flag for me was that the reason people are colorblind is that they're missing those color sensors in their eyes. How is a lens that can only remove colors from the visible spectrum going to the eye supposed to make an eye see a color that it can't even read? That's like filtering water then expecting it to have fruity flavoring in it afterwards
There are a lot of different causes of color blindness, some people have the sensors but the wavelengths they react to overlap so in those circumstances a carefully engineered color filter might help. A specific one though, customised for that one person's eyes, not some mass produced gimmick product.
I think the ending he was providing a preview of the next episode, it was ended abruptly on purpose
Umm, I think they actually might have water filters like that though but the filter stage is before the flavor stage or they filter one direction but flavor if the water is flowing out of the bottle, and if they don't as yet make these, it's technically possible to do it.
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the theory is it only works if you still have some of the color cones. if you're say, missing green entirely, you're boned. if instead, red and green are overlapping too much, there's a chance of it working by making the separate color signals more distinct.
I bet those companies are working like crazy to try to get this video removed. Especially in the thick of the holiday shopping season. Ouch. Wonderful, eye opening look at this scam!
This is 100% fair use and criticism, but TH-cam has been really weird lately
@@RochRich. I am honestly extremely outraged at this video. Doing investigative journalism on an obvious scam(it's a partial scam not a full one), without understanding the scam in full and showing it only in it's negative light. Color-blind glasses do work, but they only work for a small subset of individuals, most users will not get the *new colors* experience, anyone that actually does moderate research into color blindness/cures would know that. The glasses DO however fix* some types of color-blindness and can be more noticeable for some individuals, if normal vision means colors are red is a 10, green is a 10, etc, then color blindness means red can be a 1 or 2, and not really be noticeable but there. The glasses having a strong red tint is INTENDED because it helps boost that frequency which helps adjust the colors you see.
The SCAM part of Enchrome and color-blind glasses is 2 parts to a 3 part problem.
1. Price, they are massively ovepriced
2. White-Lie/OBFUSCATION of information, the claim that it *cures* color-blindness and curate the adverts/promotions around this without saying unless you read the fine print, which I do believe is on each colorblind glasses brands website but often is overlooked
3. They actually do work but they only work for some, which means they are using the emotional argument and real experiences of people that it does effective massively for their gain. YET, it still WORKS, just not 100% for EVERYONE. This is similar with balding treatments just to name another, but there are many that behave exactly like this.
Now, you failed to even perform some accurate tests but rather held glasses up that were intended to be tinted heavily at a camera that absorbs normal light, to an audience that sees normal light. How people don't realize how fucking stupid that is I cannot fathom. You are just asking if NORMAL vision inviduals can see RED, YES, WE CAN. This is not the only instance of utterly stupid comparisons.
Now the reason I am truly outraged about this video, you dragged one of my favorite youtubers through the mud, 2hearts1seoul. You were strangely obsessed with showing off this smaller youtuber who does weekly*(this will come up later), wholesome vlogs instead of doing your grift on the more obvious scammer Logan fucking Paul who has years of precedent being a fucking scammer. I've watched 2hearts for years and they've talked about their color blindness on several occasions years before enchroma became a thing. Sarah, is a very honest and loveable person, and while not being naive, she will let her heart take over.
The reason why the video had their affiliate link ready at the end was INCREDIBLY simple. It was recorded in one day as B footage in case they did sign up, because they wanted to keep the same aesthetic for the whole video and they were flying out the next day because they were currently abroad. I watch every single one of their videos, they record hours and hours of B roll footage, Sarah is VERY picky about the aesthetic of her videos and will always strive to make it feel congruent and flow well. She is a HYPER planner, which is also shown in all her actions in how she takes care of her family, her pet, and her lifestyle. I am telling you, this is so obvious it's mindblowing why someone would drag them through the mud, to the point where it is DISGUSTING.
Two. Kyuho has never changed his persona, he is very easy to read for anyone that watches their videos on the regular. He is very simple. He can't fake anything. Which was EVIDENT on the video when it was released because of the outpour of positive comments. I was there when it was released, there was no comment being deleted, no negative comments saying it was fake, the like ratio was incredible. This also goes into their NEWER videos that debunk your debauchery you call a video. You can read positive comments about people that LOVE these two, and I do mean LOVE, for days on both of the videos where there should be MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS. THERE is NOT ONE negative comment that I've seen that has gone above the ranks of the thousands of positive comments for these two. I was curious and continued to scroll both of their newest videos and it was NOTHING but love, and I do mean NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THEM. This should be so incredibly telling for the casual individual. They have a 100% ratio of people that love these two. WAKE UP.
THE COMMENTS GO FOR MILES GO CHECK FOR YOURSELF!!
Now I'm going to help you out and assume this was a human error on your part, you got fixated on one person because you likely only got correspondence back from them, and your own brain rot got fixated on one that one issue so you thought you had a *story*.
Viewers of this video need to beware of falling for another *scam* hype video. Utterly atrocious behavior.
Honestly though you downright fucked up and I would not be surprised if you get sued, but you certainly need to apologize profusely to them and take this video down at the very least for this utterly gross negligence you call *journalism*
3:23 "Passed with flying colors"💀
Glasses can never fix the absense of the receptors in our eyes.
Or the crossed wires in your optical nerve, or any problems in the color vision processing center in your brain.
I have the same type of colorblindness as the uploader by the way. At least, as far as I can tell from what he said.
Not absence (for most people), simply an overlap in sensitivity
It's like trying to sell headphones that allow deaf people to hear.
**edit** Guys. The point is that changing input doesn't fix anything if the mechanism for sensing it is broken or missing. It's not meant to be a 1-1 analogy.
@@TrackpadProductions no its not. These are not glasses for blind people.
@@TrackpadProductionsI think the analogy you're looking for is headphones that help a tonedeaf person hear pitch.
Hey, I'm colorblind and I have a theory as to why the glasses are tinted this way.
When I was younger, I really liked a pair of sunglasses I had that was tinted brown, as it made the grass greener and made autumn leaves pretty cool-looking. Of course it didn't allow me to see more than the 3 basic colors of a rainbow, but it helped me distinguish some of the nuances in leaves and grass.
My guess is that for the most common form of colorblindness (i was told that the 3 have very different proportions), a rose-ish tint can help people distinguish nuance as it would "spread" the colors in a certain area a bit more ("spread" as in give them a different brightness). The companies probably bet on the fact that going for the most common of the 3 would allow for people to see results for some stuff and not report on the side effects of destroying the difference between some colors at the other end of the spectrum, at least for the time it takes to get some sales.
same here. some tints of sunglasses "help" me with distinguishing certain shades.
I dunno if colorblind people feel the same effect, but I know that if I wear a pair of common yellow-tinted safety glasses for a few hours, when I take them off the world seems incredibly vibrant until my brain re-aligns. I'd wager the same psychological effect goes on here but in reverse: they've never seen color "correctly," so shifting it to a new spectrum feels alien and then they're told they're seeing the world like everyone else does, when that's sorta the same as trying to prove that everyone's brain interprets the color purple the same as everyone else's.
@@OOZ662 The brain definitely plays a major part in distinguishing colors, even using context clues.
My mother discovered I was colorblind very early because I told her that the trains would always stop at green lights, when in fact their lights are just reversed (red on top, green on bottom).
Since I learned this information I've been able to "see" a difference between red & green lights, even thought on a map using those colors I can't distinguish them.
It's possible that the change itself is enough for the brain to remember to assign a different "feel" (color) to a certain objet.
I actually thought that was literally how these worked, I watched another video on it...
These glasses do have an effect but it's not as drastic as the videos on the internet would lead you to believe.
14:43 but its true, as a non colour blind person, i always see heavy metal music wherever i go
I hope this will get at the top of the comments. As a colorblind myself, I took my time to look into how viewing colors and gray works. You’ve got 2 types of “sensors” light sensor (brightness/gray) and hue sensor (color) and basically when you’re colorblind, your color sensor (hue sensor) are bad/doesn’t work properly. The hue sensor are split in 3 category (red blue green) and thus cause the different type of colorblindness.
My point is, no matter how good these glasses are, if your eyes don’t allow you to see the color, the glasses wont magically allow it. Also, the best it could do is help you differentiate color but as shown in the video it makes it worst.
Keep in mind I never tried it, this is an opinion based on the science of thing
Any product that has one of the Paul brothers, or anybody associated with them, is 100% a scam. That's when I knew this was. You also brought up my #1 red flag question "If they've never seen these colors then how do they know what they are?"
its all bullshit but you would 100% have years of context clues.
People are taught what color things are in school, and even if they are colorblind they learn what color things "should be"
If you never saw blue before and suddenly saw a new color when looking at the sky... you would know its blue you are seeing for the first time.
@@Shiftarus you know, i thought twitch was blue for the longest time until i got a filter and found out that yeah, it's actually purple. but i know what purple looks like, i've seen purple before, just not in the same way other people see purple. if someone else without colorblindness looked at my screen they'd be like "whoa dude why is twitch pink" or something like that probably.
@@Shiftarus That would be in context. Not looking at the same exact objects that are different colors and being able to immediately identify a bunch of new colors.
@@Shiftarus so what color is a balloon based on "context clues"?
@@vibaj16
I’m guessing “it’s bullshit” refers to the balloon bit, and the rest of the explanation refers to how colourblind people know what colour something is in general.
As a colourblind person, I genuinely loved this video. Can't say how many times I've had people tell me "Oh you should just get some of those glasses that fix it", and then have to explain that for the majority of people, it doesn't work.
That's the problem, it's not that the glasses don't work for most people. The glasses work for no one.
So the glasses do work for me. My advice is to take a test and try a set that offers a 60 day money back guarantee. Wear them a ton, multiple hours a day. If they dont work, send them back. I will say that i can see brown dog poop on a red bath mat with them on so my wife doesnt get to laugh at me when i pick up a cold one that was virtually invisible to me...
@@jonlough3074 not to sound rude, but the science doesn't add up. the glasses might be able to change some colors to others, but there's no possible way that they can actually fix deficiencies in the eye itself. that would almost certainly be required to see colors you weren't previously able to see.
i'm sure that they might be able to make certain colors stand out more, but without a direct connection to the eyes and brain, it's just not possible for something like that to fix any kind of colorblindness.
No, they don't work for you. They literally don't because they CAN'T. They can ALTER the way you see colors, but in no way, shape, or form do they correct colorblindness. @@jonlough3074
They don‘t fix colorblindness but I mean anybody who knows how colorblindness works can see this obviously. I didn‘t think people actually believed they cured it.
I bought them and they work for me. This doesn‘t mean they cure my colorblindness, it means they filter out some of the wavelengths I have problems with which means the others stand out more, giving me the ability to differentiate between red and green for example. This logically doesn‘t mean I can see more colors but I can see the difference between some problematic colors, which is my main problem. So I am very happy with my purchase.
So many friends/family post those damned "heart-warming" videos on their timelines (or link them to ME as they all know I'm colourblind) and I always feel a responsibility to shit on them (the videos :) because I knew from the beginning that lenses cannot add rods/cones to my eyes. Now, all I have to do is link this video! Thank you. Definitely worth the subscribe!
ps... "That was a huge blue flag for me" Nice!
Where had you been getting your eyes "tested" if you'd never seen a colour test until age 21? I'd be having serious words with my parents 😂
For over a decade I gave the colorblindness test to new employees at my old job. I was surprised to learn how many subtle and strange variations exists.
Is it legal to demand medical information from employees like that?
@@minetruly They weren't demanding medical info. If you're a business where you work with paints and you once had an employee applying a wrong colour, you are free to implement a colour test (or exam, training, etc), so they're not wasting materials.
@@minetrulyfor jobs that reliant on color, like video editing, graphic design or engineer/chemical engineer, colorblind test are pretty much a requirement. Tbf, some work require having no injuries that hamper with work, to prevent incidents, workplace safety issues and all that
@@ArchivistMarkeragree, it's our right to deny giving sensitive information - but some medical details _are_ relevant to certain jobs & it's better to be upfront than risk an accident (or lose said job) in the future
@@minetruly The relevant laws can vary greatly depending upon job type and locality, but generally speaking, for an employer to demand something medical of an employee, that thing must be necessary for the safe performance of the position.
Keep in mind that's just a rule of thumb. Employers still have to follow anti discrimination laws that require them to make certain accommodations when possible.
For instance, the colorblind test that I administered was for newly hired clinical laboratory scientists and chemists. If they failed the colorblind test it didn't affect their employment status, they just weren't allowed to do colorimetric testing.
Great video. I got tricked into buying their glasses a few years ago. I'm strong protan, according to their test. The glasses certainly made some colors brighter and even prettier. But I still could not distinguish them as purple or green. I should have sent them back, but I was trying to give it a while to let my eye/brain "adjust", which is what they tell you. Eventually, I just chalked it up to a $300 mistake. I guess I just figured I was one of the people they just don't work for. Thanks for looking into this.
They don't work for anyone and they never will.
You’re totally right, I thought i wasn’t “one of the lucky ones” when my family got these for me for my birthday a few years ago. I felt like such an idiot because they had set up the balloons as they weren’t that much different. All it did was increase the vibrancy of the colours. I felt kind of ashamed/ guilty as they were all expecting a different reaction 😅. It’s pretty disgusting to think that these are heavily promoted via media.
That's so sad for everyone
I hope the companies and people faking a reaction all get sued for scam
@@nussknacker9827it is wtf I'm shocked tbh I thought all those videos were real smh.
I felt so bad when my family member got them for me, i was like yeah its cool, but everything is so pink its impossible to actually "use" them lol
man, these companies are so manipulative and two-faced
Your "That was a huge blue flag for me" at 5:32 was incredibly genius.
It caught me off guard and I had to rewind and listen to it again lol
My mom got me these a few years ago and actually got mad at me when my reaction to putting them on was saying "its all pink" I wear them every now and again but never really notice a big difference, the only times I take them off and feel like I actually notice a difference is under specific scenarios and with me consciously thinking about it.
Lol, your mom is stupid, maybe even a bit abusive, for getting mad. My immediate reaction would've been laughing really hard. That said, I am a bit biased since I know how color blindness works from a scientific perspective.
That's pretty low of your mother to lash out at you because the glasses she bought you were not helpful.
...in fact, I wonder if continuing to wear those glasses would cause you more harm than good.
This just showed up on my feed. I'm not coloured blind but I appreciate good journalism and integrity. Companies shouldn't get away with this stuff anymore. We need to keep ourselves informed of the modern day snake-oil salesmen and I appreciate creators like you or Coffeezilla sharing the stuff regular "news" won't share. Subscribed!
Lol, coloured blind = a black guy that can't see?
@@zwenkwiel816 and british
Out of all this, the most shameful is the fact that all those “news” media did no investigations to find out if this was legit. So much for journalism standards! Can’t wait for part two!
Shameful? That is completely normal for most all media outlets.... Did you not live through the Trump presidency?
@@Cinnabuns2009 Trump 2024
TV and cable "NEWS" has not been about finding the truth in a long time. Look up Project Mocking Bird.
Those news media would never do any investigation because that would take time and they need the money.
Trump isn't the president.
Every time I see a "wholesome" story on social media, I get suspicious... and it often shows, rightfully so.
Wholly full of some bs 😂
Mainly if that "wholesomeness" is dependent on buying a product.
Have you seen the one where the pilot tells the family the boy doesn't have cancer? People will fall for anything.
Well, they could be worse. At least these glasses don't cause immediate permanent blindness.
As if people would react that way just because they see more colors, ridiculous. Quite color blind myself but I see enough colors. I certainly wouldn't react that way just cause a saw a few more shades of colors. Obviously color blindness doesn't mean you don't see colors, usually just means you see fewer colors. So big deal unless you work with photo/video editing or something. I used to play world of tanks and the red silhouettes of enemy tanks were kinda hard to see. Used to think it was strange how my dad used to say red objects were easy to spot in a green field.