Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2023
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In this two-part investigative documentary series, I delve into the color corrective glasses industry, focusing on major brands like EnChroma, PileStone, and Carelust. The investigation exposes a landscape rife with scams and misleading marketing tactics, challenging claims that these products enable people with color vision deficiencies to see new colors.
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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.
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 ❤️
Please pin that comment@@MegaLag
Seconded… the pin request of the above comment
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.
Those scammers are getting
caught red/green handed
lmao
I actually make this joke kind of frequently. I always say people have been caught "green" handed. When someone corrects me, I point out that I'm colorblind so for me it's green handed.
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.
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
"...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
@@itsabdelg5:32
😂
As a colourblind guy myself I can say they are very creative with their marketing but I do have a set of enchroma glasses myself and they make a difference. It’s not fixing colours it’s impossible, but they do shift colours to allow me to see the ones I’m missing. I have strong protanopia (green cones in my eyes are too strong and red are too weak) which means reds look very dark and sometimes brown, greens are overpowering and make yellows and oranges look the green and some purples, pinks and blues look the same. Wearing these glasses It shifts everything to look more red. It makes colours more vibrant but not accurate at all. They also only really work in bright situations and take a couple of minuets for your eyes to adjust when you put them on. They don’t make you able to pass a colourblind test and are definitely not a fix but they are an interesting experience.
Watch part 2, I delve a lot more into the science which I think you will find useful.
You cold probably use a single side of a classic 3d glasses and would have a similar effect lol
@@Nico_com_cNot really.
I got em too and with mine on...Red actually stands out like Blue does for me without them....with mine on Red is Vibrant and pops....actual oranges don't look green to me....I was amazed when I saw the fedex truck one day. Anywho...my two cents...the thing is...the Manufactures even state it takes time for your eyes to adjust...and he's just testing them out like the videos...Clever marketing (The adverts) but if you read further the manufacture even states this....
@@Nico_com_c This, exactly.
Even in middle school I knew this smelled fishy but no one ever came out & disproved it & after many videos of people trying them on I just accepted it. 10 years later this video is very cathartic.
Yea, I was like how come they know what the names of the colors are if they have never seen it their whole live. But then again there are people who develop color blindness and who were not born with it so I was just like maybe that's the case? Glad for this video even if it's kind of shattering for me
@@nevermindimjustapasserbyhonestly, most (born) colorblind people can name all/many colors even if they cant "see" the color like everyone else. they had to go through elementary school like everyone else! they got taught the colors, it just looks different to them. for example, i can call something Red and it could look Brown to you but you were taught its called "Red" so you also say red. its complex but so is colorblindness
**calculates date of birth**
@@blalhber5447 guess
@@when-do-we-get-a-block-button ofc colorblind ppl have internalized the literal words for colors but the point is that they would not have any frame of reference for what 'true' red green purple etc are
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
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.
I came here for the debunking, but the sheer insanity of the "guy works with colour, finds out he has colour blindness, says 'eh whatever', finds a workaround, continues to work with colour" left me questioning my life choices
The irony of being colorblind for me is that, in some ways, I think I have a better academic understanding of color than the average person as a result of trying to make sense of it. The number of times that I've misidentified various colors has been incredibly informative in ways.
My parents bought these glasses for my younger brother when he was in his late teens (about 8 years ago). My brother has always wanted to see a full rainbow, he can only ever see 2 or 3 colours, and thought this would be his chance. Of course they didn't work. We were all devastated.
So sorry this is heart less I don’t know you, but I’m devastated with you. Nothing more than to want to see a loved one see what you see anything I can say when he gets very very old and this time here on earth is passed . And he crosses all hard to God, our father and heaven, he will see colors 1 million times better than the average person on earth, for Christ promised.
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.
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
@@Kyle-nm1khkek
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?
Back when i was a kid i wore blue tinted glasses as a "sensory stimulant reducer" for autism, i wore them so much that my eyes just adapted to it and saw through the blue. Im not sure if it affected my vision at all but it diddnt help my emotions much.
that is so interesting. was it like a monochrome thing but blue? and is that a commonly used solution? i've heard a lot about tactile and auditory overstimulation but not much about this. is it rude to ask you to tell me more?
@@gin6222 Blue is a calming color and maybe making everything closer together on the light spectrum reduces the amount of sensory input the brain has to deal with? I'm just guessing here though, and I'm not autistic nor have I used such glasses, so don't quote me on this lol.
“a huge blue flag for me” brilliant
"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🤣😭
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
Thank you for making this video. You're not only exposing these companies for their scams, but you're also helping make it known that online product reviews aren't always honest and can easily be fabricated or manipulated to trick and mislead the public.
I remember seeing this product blow up with all the emotional videos, truly disgusting what companies will do for money. Thank you for all of your work, more people need to see this.
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.
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?
Wow, what an eye-opening video! Thank you for shedding light on the truth behind EnChroma glasses.
It's disappointing to see companies manipulate people for profit. I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel and subscribed. Keep up the amazing work of exposing these scams and bringing genuine content to your audience!
We bought them for my father years back (not sure if there are other brands) and he was amazed, said it looked incredible and he could actually see a significant difference 🤷🏼♀️
Yea i assumed they work for some but not for others. This guy who made the vid is probably an atheist too by his overly skeptical attitude. As if all of those crying vids are fake.. Yeah ok... Just because the glasses dont work for some doesnt mean they dont work for anyone
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*
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 these glasses and am quite colorblind. When I first put them on I was in a botanical garden. The first thing I noticed was that brick buildings were red. I've seen red before but struggle to see all the shades. For that reason, I've never seen the red in purple and it always appeared as blue. I'm a Vikings fan and could see the purple separate from blues for the first time. I don't think it's a scam, just isn't a cure.
Do you know if you have protanopia? Because to me it makes sense that would actually work, unlike what the host has (deuteranopia)
EDITED TO ADD - I have tried Ray Ban's red mirror flash lenses too, but they don't work as well as the blue. Not as strong. I'm in my 40's, my colour blindness was picked up during routine screening at school. I was told I am red/green colourblind. I basically have a hard time discerning certain shades of red/brown/green and purple often looks blue. Whatever, doesn't really cause me any huge issues. My wife wanted me to try Enchroma glasses, but I wasn't prepared to risk good money on what I sensed was probably a load of BS. We settled on some cheaper alternatives. They made no difference whatsoever, so back they went for a refund. However, I have come across something that does help colours stand out more vibrantly to me - Ray Ban blue mirror flash lenses. I bought them 'cos they look cool and are great in bright sunlight. On bright sunny days, everything stands out more, greens, reds and blues in particular. It doesn't cure me, but the world sure looks prettier. I tried their Chromance range too which are advertised as bringing out colour and clarity, but they weren't a patch on the blue mirror flash lenses.
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".
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.
Great video. I subscribed based on this video alone. Can't wait to see more. I'm colorblind as well (red/green) and found out while I was in the Army, which then explained why I was always arguing with my mother on what color things were :)
When I tried to get into the army reserves they gave us a color blind test. The guy asked me "are you color blind?". I said "I don't think so". Then he replied "yes you are".😂😂😂
you should have weared enchroma glasses. noob...
😅 you would have passed that test with flying colors. (see what i just did there?) 😂😂😂
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
The fact that they even have that option should tell you all you need to know.
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
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.
you can see that Logan Paul put on the amazed face before he even put on the glasses 💀
You've just earned a subscriber. We need more people like you in the world. Thank you for existing and having the courage to do what you do.
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.
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 honestly appreciate this video..
I'm an industrial designer and I design Eyewear, I've been wanting to buy enchroma's, but now after watching this video I feel sad, yet appreciative of the effort u made
you pointed that out too, the way I am asking myself if you cannot distinguish colors for a long time, how can you tell the correct colors after wearing them. thanks for this, now I know I am not the only who is skeptic on these glasses
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*
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! 😝
I love these types of videos! subscribed.
Welcome!
I swear, the internet's going to be a 100 years old and people are still going to believe anything they see on it...
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.
My stepdad is colour blind and i thought getting him a set of these would be a nice christmas present. Watched all the reaction videos and also thought the people now naming colours they had allegedly never seen was suspect and couldnt wrap my head around how a set of glasses could cure a problem in the actual receptors in an eyeball. Glad i went with my gut.
This is the first I've heard of them, but it's kinda like saying your 1980's alarm clock radio can pick up wifi streaming mp3s or black and white film can pick up color tints. The best could be some filtering of light to simulate a different color but if your eyes lack the ability to see certain colors there's nothing a filter can do to increase the receptiveness of your eyes.
so similar as the good old anti baldness creams
Just like Ponzi schemes
We believe in the positive impacts EnChroma glasses have on individuals and the strength of the ever-evolving scientific research that is our foundation. As is often the case with scientific innovation, it is natural to be skeptical. Watch our video to learn the science-backed facts behind our glasses: ua-cam.com/video/TBZM2LyU8g8/v-deo.html
Thank you! I've been waiting for someone to explain this! It was obviously a scam, but people were strangely silent about debunking it.
My friend and I are both colorblind, they're much more severe than mine. He tried the glasses and felt they were very effective. I was very underwhelmed.
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.
@@stephensmith7887I 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
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.
Thanks for putting this out there. You missed a great opportunity though: doing the color tests again with the glasses on!
19:17 im sorry but the extremely deep "umm" was just hilarious
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
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.
13:52 not only having a problem differentiating colors but it can actually make the same shade of red invisible on some surfaces
Like a bright red marker on a whiteboard it will just look like a completely blank whiteboard
Thank you for exposing this scam. These corrupt companies need to be sued.
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.
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
'A huge blue flag' is a hilarious subtlety
No idea who this guy is, he randomly got recommended to me, but props for the video, it's nice to see someone actually putting in a lot of effort and making a good educational and entertaining video
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
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.
Thank you!! this video needs much more attention!
17:50 lol, as soon as i watched the next 10 seconds here, i literally paused the video, stared at my ceiling on my own, and exclaimed 'no F****** way'😂😂😂
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@@minxironwood
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
Omg I almost bought the EnChroma ones as it really looked genuine. But the cost put me off. Glad I have seen this, thank you 🙏 I have had my eyes tested and I am red green defficient
Had been looking into these too (have strong red/green colourblindness) - but I could borrow a pair from a friend (who didn't benefit much from them either, and never wore them); and they didn't do a thing. Just as in your video, they made everything more pink/reddish, but didn't give any greater distinction between colours. Still couldn't see the autumn colours in the trees! Thanks for highlighting this!
I would have liked to see you re-take the color blindness tests with the glasses on. Use their own test to test their glasses.
Yeah, this is a pretty obvious step I was expecting. Like, clearly they will only make it worse, but let us see the results.
I just retook the test after stating I was wearing the glasses and it seemed the same as before.
Yeah, that was kinda missing.
this would prove nothing. if anything shine light of known frequency through the spex and record the changes. i imagine it would be zero. testing scams just encourages them. real science doesn't work on idiots. look at chem-trails or the belief that everyone learns differently-visual or in words. all nonsense.
the red-orange comparison shows how it would have gone
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
This is so heartbreaking. As a mom, a knowing that Spring is coming and it's my favorite time of year because everything pops out the greens are the prettiest colors ever. And?
And I know it sounds like I may not be an attentive parent but I really, really am.I couldn't understand why my son didn't appreciate the spring as much as I did with the colors.. I crochet and I started making summer tops with rainbow colors.. One of Damn I added extra green stripes in different places.. For the first time he said how come you put so much gray in it. 😮 That sentencing to long converstations and while I didn't do it in front of him I had a very long.
Sadness of crying... Realizing that he does the experience of beautiful green grass or the fresh buds coming on the trees😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺 Or even?
The ocean when the light hits it a certain way..😢
Thankfully his favorite color is red and he gets to see that😊 When I woke up this Morning the first thing I thought of was that I was going to start a go fund me which i've never brought myself to do for anything.. And all of the items that I have made over the years that I was saving up.
For some large items that I felt we needed.. a car.Maybe a house .. I would put.
Toward toward any hope that there would be a surgery that would help him. You're the world in a much brighter place... I went online this morning and I found you.. Thank you so very much for your research.Bumped me out this morning butt.I've had to come to terms no right now..😢 That I have configured that if he hasn't known it. Maybe he just doesn't know what he's not seeing. Thank you so much for your research.And the people that are doing this to families should be put in jail😢😢😢😢😢
from DHL to shady color blind glasses, you da mvp mate.
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 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.
I got these for my husband and it was amazing! It was like one of those "staged" commercials. We both got emotinal. Prior to getting glasses he could weakly see all the colors (except purple was completely new to him) but he could not see variations of the same color. He couldn't see pastel colors either. For example, when you have different shades of green in the trees or blue in flowers, etc he was only seeing one flat color. For example flower blossoms on a tree had some light pink in the petals. The flowers only looked a homogeneous white to him. After putting the glasses on he would point to specific spots on the flower and say "I can see that spot is pink and that spot is white." He started noticing and pointing out variations of colors in the landscape to confirm with me if I was seeing the same thing, which I was. His color blindness was even more than either of us realized once he got his glasses on and pointed out all this detail I was taking for granted. I'm really skeptical person, but our experience was dramatic. I highly recommend trying them. They may not work for everyone, but if they work for you it's amazing. For one week after getting the glasses we spent all our free time looking at things, going for drives with his glasses. One thing that was really dramatic was things that reflect light and color like water, diamond and shiny things. He would point out that he could see the color reflected in it that he couldn't before. I'm sorry they don't work for everyone. Of course they don't cure the condition, they are an aide like crutches.
Dann this video hits me hard, I am red green blind like you. Never heard of these glasses before, I would have been skeptical too.
I wish they would actually work.
It's amazing that you do colour grading as part of your job.
How is life in Seoul?
Seoul is the best city in the world. Koreans are extremely happy living in Seoul. There are many beautiful people in Seoul earning a lot of money. 🌈
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 know 2 people that own these glasses and they work although I've been told the effect diminishes over time. This guy is full of shit. He strikes me as someone that thinks everything he sees that is incredible is fake.
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.
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.
5:33 “and that was a huge blue flag for me.” Nice 😂🤣
Mate, we need more people like you, doing this kind of stuff. There is so much BS online these days... I was actually taken in by this. Thank god I didn't act on it.
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.
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
👏👏👏👏 amazing investigation! Thank you 👍👍👍
Honestly sad as they seemed genuinely happy and helped..it gave so many false hopes
I realized that these glasses were a scam when I began working at an eye clinic. We diagnosed people with color blindness all the time, and I thought to myself, "If these are a cure for color blindness, why are we not prescribing them?"
They're not supposed to cure it, they're a fun thing to wear instead of sunglasses when you go outside so you can distinguish colors in the sunlight. They dim everything too much to be useful indoors
@@a11aaa11a while technically correct that's not how they are advertised and there within not fit for purpose.
@@a11aaa11a What a cope
@@a11aaa11a they are marketed as curing color blindness, and seeing new colors, but they're literally just purple plastic. color blindness is your eyes lacking receptors, no matter how you warp or tint the glasses, you cant fix it externally.
@@a11aaa11a if they truly worked then it wouldnt be much effort to make less heavily tinted ones so they would work indoors
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
Great video and great work!
thank you for this video. i have been talking about buying a pair of these for a long time and had no idea they were a scam
5:32 I giggled when you said "So that was a huge blue flag for me."
Subtle
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!
I just want to say that this was very informative!
Bro that snoove review is so enlightening
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*
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!
Dude. The guy that took this video down talked about you on the radio💀💀💀
Which radio?
@@MegaLag rock 98.3
@@MegaLag the morning show is over now though
Guess I can’t respond to the claims then. 🤷♂️ What did he say exactly?
@@MegaLag he talked about how he has a UA-cam channel and he got colorblind glasses for his friend and they worked. He then said that you used his content without permission for this video so he got it taken down. So yeah
Hello my fellow colour blind friend! Thank you for this video.
I got enchorma glasses as gift and they were expensive in 2018! I had the same reaction as you that it's just tinted ! A very strong tint but I had to give a reaction to the person who gifted me! I wore them twice and still lying around somewhere
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.
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.
Imagine you have a box with a hole for a triangle and a hole for a hexagon.
You have 3 shapes - square, triangle, circle.
You can fit the triangle nicely, but not the square or circle.
Now you get some equipment (akin to the glasses) and your square gets shaved into a triangle.
Did a square pass through? No! That's a triangle!
You can only have triangles and hexagons fit in the box. You will never get squares or circles in the box.
This is a small explanation as to why the glasses don't help for the people who couldn't really understand the video.