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I'm colorblind and I'm very interested in this.

A few years back I purchased for over 700 euros a pair of Chromagen glasses that promised to do the same.

http://www.chromagen.us/

With the Chromagen glasses you had to go to an specialist place and get your eyes tested with a variety of glasses to see which combination was the best for your type of colorblindness. Luckily for me both glasses were the same colors (pink, which even if I can't see it properly, I would prefer if they were another color).

Some interesting things since I had the glasses:

- The first time I saw red trough the glasses was surreal: coca-cola, a tomato, carrots, etc. Was a very emotional moment because you realize how much info is missing in your sight.

- As much as I got excited when wearing them I got depressed when taking them out. The world is excessively green to me which once I saw the world with red in it, a green world is incredibly boring.

- While I tried to make them as fashionable as possible (had the glasses on an Oakley frame (hey it was 10 years ago) I don't think they look to good.

- They were not really sunglasses per se, so I would wear them and still be bothered with the sun which this new ones seem to have figure out.

I will sure give this ones a try. They look good, seem to be fashionable enough and the price is accesible.

Just need to figure out the emotional aspect of it as is really something. I wonder is there's a correlation between mood with colors and colorblind people that can't see red being generally grumpier.

P.S: talk about resting on your laurels. Chromagen always had a marketing issue in my opinion and this is just surreal:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/decd967f-f4da-4ff3-b9fa...

They are displaying Google Ads in their site and I get a retargeting ad of EnChroma Glasses.



According to the site test I'm profiled as Strong Protan. No glasses are available to fully fix my colorblindness, since are only are available for medium protans.




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