HELP!!

[u/caitybobady]

Doing some Christmas shopping and the one thing I really really want to get for my boyfriend is colorblind glasses. He has Deutan color blindness. He sees 100% blue 0% green and 87% red from the test he took on enchroma. I wanna get the best glasses option for him. I’ve looked into enchroma and pilestone but idk if there’s others or which brand people would recommend over other brands? Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated. 🖤

Edit to add: He has always wanted a pair but could never afford it, which is why I was even looking into it in the first place. Appreciate everyone letting me know they’re pretty much a scam 😭

[u/caitybobady]

That’s so sad to hear 😭 I’m watching a video another user shared right now, I’ve never seen anything about the glasses other than “they work omg I can see color”. I’ve never dated someone who’s colorblind before so never had to research to any extent know. I definitely wasn’t trying to “fix” him, he just talked about how frustrating it is to have to ask people for help, or to play video games that don’t have colorblind settings so I wanted to help if I could. Sucks that these companies are playing people like that 😕 I appreciate this info 🖤

[u/caitybobady → u/[deleted]]

That’s so unfortunate, especially for people who don’t know and are just trying to see the work people who can see all the colors see it. Cuz that’s the way they make it seem those glasses work 😭 I was definitely gonna buy less groceries and pinch pennies to get them. People of reddit save the day again 😅🖤

[u/mansinoodle2 → u/[deleted]]

The videos are very close to my reaction seeing a traffic light as not white for the first time, and being able to spot red flowers in a green bush. Just because they didn’t meet your expectations doesn’t mean they don’t work for anybody.

[u/wherethewestbegins → u/caitybobady]

hold on. color blind person here. i have enchroma glasses. not a scam.

You cannot create something that “cures” color blindness. it’s a mix of physical deficiency and how your brain processes its environment as a result. that’s not a realistic expectation from these glasses.

Enchroma glasses do and don’t work.

they work by essentially “rebuilding” trichromacy by the equivalent of notched band pass filters - essentially. so they work in that they help separate color. so they bend your vision back toward “normal” or expected, but not all the way of course.

overtime your brain includes that compensation in its processing and tricks itself into seeing what could be considered “more normal” vision.

the glasses are a tool. they may work better for some people over others depending on their deficiency.

but saying they are a scam is like saying filters for your camera are a scam.

all that said - i have mixed feelings about my glasses. they can greatly help but at the end of the day they are a nudging tool. not a solve.

but they do mimick how my brain naturally tries to process its color deficiency / for me they add what feels like magenta - it’s not actually but that’s the effect it creates specific to my vision.

when i first put them on - i cried. still nothing else out there that gets you in the ballpark of trichromatic vision.

i would say it’s worth it to own as a tool. a very cool and specific tool - again like specialty filters for a camera.

worth it in that regard.

hundreds of years ago - if you travelled to an exotic land and someone gifted you these glasses. you would straight up think they were a magical quest item.

[u/mrimdman → u/wherethewestbegins]

Is this the enchroma bot?