the glasses don't magically make you "see the colors", they just make them easier to differentiate them by cramming existing colors into your eyes differently using magic.
It's definitely a curious technology. Because even with some sort of special lens or whatever, it's wild to imagine that kind of technology being able to somehow bypass the capabilities of the cones in your eyes to see that which they're incapable of perceiving.
It's cool, you can tell the glasses really work because colorblind people can't see purple. Purple is an optical illusion caused by three-color vision. Any creature that sees more or fewer than 3 colors can't see purple.
@@gurvmlk Nah, it's not a curious tech. It's completely fake. There's no shortage of videos out there showcasing that these magical glasses are nothing more than a fake marketing scam.
@@jakedematteo2172 The problem is the shading can appear as a different color what he thought of as pink was a different shading of pink if you look at the filter he showed in video you can see that shade of pink is real close to Silver.
With the glasses: - Red appears much brighter - Purple and magenta are distinct from blue - Pink is distinct from grey - Brown is district from green He clearly has a red deficiency
@@BlisteringBlue42 Pretty sure he has protanomaly, not protanopia. I don't think the glasses work for protanopia since you don't have red cones whatsoever. Unless he's said otherwise.
@@mysteryguyiscool5054There are very different levels of colorblind, is a full spectrum. Most common is either red or green deficiencies, but full-on grayscale is also a thing.
Travis Brundage Do you have a source on this? It’s a little strange considering we have biologically inset pigment proteins, they’re just only activated by “visible” light. Like I’m not sure what’s being tapped in the brain for the other “colors” to even be perceived.
I'm not colorblind, but getting my first pair of glasses after spending my entire life seeing everything in a haze was mind blowing to me. I even said "It's like I'm seeing the world in HD."
Yeah I remember thinking that the way I saw was the way everyone saw. Like "oh, after about 1ft everything keeps getting blurrier, that's just normal." When I was in the office and put on my first pair of glasses I didn't really see much difference. But as soon as we opened the door to leave, and I saw outside, my mind was absolutely blown. I was like "wait, everything stays just as clear as you get further, it only gets smaller and that's it?"
@@EldoofusNo, he's not. These glasses are a scam. It is physically impossible for an external object to cause one to see colours they couldn't before. The only way that could happen, would be to grow the missing cones and rods the eyes lack - science has yet to make this possible. All these glasses do is shift visible light into a portion of the colour spectrum that the wearer can already distinguish better. At best, it allows for better contrast. You can't see new colours. This guy isn't seeing a new reality, he's effectively walking around with 3D glasses on, tinting things to look unnatural.
@@ErdrickHeroThat's not really a "scam" unless what you said isn't stated. While a lot of people did get unintentionally tricked by this video, I'd say this is the next best thing. Being able to differentiate the colors is the point, so, boom. It uses the colors the person would name "brown", and such, and the rest can be guessed at as accurately as he did. Using what's possible, they "work"
Colorblind people seeing color for the first time: “Oh my lord... it’s so beautiful I could cry...” IBDW: “Is that what grass looks like when it’s dead?”
This is the most ignorant, braindead comment I've ever read. The vast majority of colourblind people do not see in monochrome. That is so rare that actual cases of it are almost unheard of. Instead, colourblindness refers to a colour vision deficiency. We can see some of the colour spectrum, but certain parts of the spectrum are dulled or missing entirely. This makes it difficult to distinguish certain colours from each other. There is no cure. These glasses are a scam. It is physically impossible for glasses to introduce new colours to your vision. What these do is shift light into another portion of the colour spectrum, that hopefully you can distinguish better. At best, they are a contrast-enhancing tool. The only way one could see new colours would be to grow the missing cones and rods their eyes lack. So far, we have no way to do so. Source: I am colourblind and have done the research. Trust me, I wanted these to be real.
IBDW has anomalous trichromacy, the most common kind of colorblindness. His red and green opsin proteins got scrambled; red is more affected than green in Cody's case, if I understand correctly, but a defect in green sensitivity is more common in general. These glasses work by absorbing wavelengths that fall halfway in between green and red, thereby exaggerating the differences between the two.
So to make sure I understand, when he would normally see red, his eyes basically amplified green causing it to...not be red. but with the wavelengths differing is he actually able to see red now that the other wavelengths have been absorbed or is it still 'blank' just with a distinct shading?
@@riskygamiing actually, the molecule that absorbs red light is messed up. There's a good chance it received an insertion mutations from the gene for the molecule that absorbs green light. This is an evolutionary problem for humans, since our red opsin evolved as a duplication of our green opsin millions of years ago. They're still chemically similar & located on the same chromosome, so they're more likely to get scrambled than most genes are. Keep in mind... this is all from a class I took a few years ago. You might want to do your own reading.
Fake: he didn't immediately put his hands to his mouth and start sobbing over the immense beauty of the colors before him. Just kidding. It's great seeing someone who is actually colorblind benefit from these glasses.
These glasses are a scam. What they claim to do is physically impossible. The only way to see new colours would be to grow the missing cones and rods your eyes lack. Science has yet to make this a possibity. All these glasses do is shift light into a different portion of the colour spectrum, that hopefully one's eyes can better distinguish. At best, they enhance contrast.
No one benefits from these glasses because it's fake. There's no such thing as magical glasses that make color blind people see the colors they can't see.
This was a damn good video. A lot of us non-colorblind people don't know how good we have it until we see this kind of thing. The people who invented these glasses are incredible and I hope they've enjoyed monetary success for bringing these experiences to more people.
No, this is a horrible video. The glasses are a scam, what they claim to do is physically impossible. What this guy is experiencing is effectively the same as a person with normal sight walking around with (red/cyan, not polarized) 3D glasses on. All it does is tint things to look unnatural. At best, it provides more contrast. The only way to see new colour would be to grow the missing cones and rods your eyes lack. Source: I'm colorblind myself and have done the research because I would like to not be. Unfortunately, it's impossible, at least with modern medicine.
These glasses aren't real. They don't actually work. They're a scam used to trick gullible people out of their money, and get gullible naive people to watch RU-vid videos about them in order to generate ad revenue. There is no possible way to cure any kind of colorblindness. That just isn't a thing. Just try not to be so gullible from now on.
@@ErdrickHero as far as I can tell, it seems in certain instances he isn't really missing many tones of color, a lot of them are just significantly less distinct - and clearly they're working super well for him (lots of colors he guesses are naturally matching up with what he asks chat) so I wouldn't say they're purely a "scam" - just that maybe they aren't intended for a chunk of people.
@@squidduthat's the exact argument that the company (forgot the name) used to scam people with "oh they just might not work for some people" - try paying 100+ dollars for it to not work💀 also - the reason why he sees some colors more distinctly than others, is because those tinted glasses are tinted in a color on the color spectrum that blocks out a specific color group just to make other colors more distinct. You can't make new colors - it just doesn't work like that - tinted glasses don't change your color sight - other than making some colors seem brighter the research is flawed 💀 if you doubt this - there's a good video covering this topic on yt that bought the research documents to see their arguments on why color glasses work (it was abt 40 bucks which is ridiculous) (why pay in the first place) they also interviewed researchers who researched the company's claims and shown that if you even had a basic knowledge on how our eyes perceive color, you would know that it is a sham instantly 🥲 just trust me - go look it up 💀
@@squiddu Nah, they're not working for him. It's a scam. There's a ton of videos debunking these glasses. Even a few of the people who advertised it have said in podcasts they were faking their reactions. Honestly though, it's probably impossible to make colour blind people see the same amount of colours as other people with just glasses. It would either require an eye operation or something that affects the processing of the brain.
Wait a moment, I just put something together, I think. I imagine you thought “salmon” when used as a color was in reference to the color of the scales, the outside of the fish, but it’s actually in reference to the color of the salmon’s meat.
Man this is beautiful. Reminds me of when I got prescription glasses for the first time and saw the individual leaves on the trees along the side of the road and cried
I had a similar experience where during college my astigmatism kicked in without me noticing and then with glasses it was like...oh yeah, did y’all know grass is made of individual blades?
These colorblindness glasses aren't real. They don't actually work. They're a scam used to trick gullible people out of their money, and get gullible naive people to watch RU-vid videos about them in order to generate ad revenue. There is no possible way to cure any kind of colorblindness. That just isn't a thing. Just try not to be so gullible from now on.
@@soren1803 In college especially, I can imagine some of the group of people laughing at that question. Not rudely or mockingly, but still finding it funny to see that kind of revelation in somebody that age.
"I feel like I can see FoD, though." _5 seconds later_ *"THAT'S NOT BLUE???"* I smiled so much while watching this :) This is the wholesome content we need. Not even from Smashers specifically, just in general
7:51 i love how he's SO confused by the magenta border on final destination, fun fact magenta isn't actually a real color on the light spectrum it's just a result of our human minds trying to comprehend a mixture of red light and blue light
@@heyhorhey528 well technically yellow does exist, it's just that we don't have a yellow cone in our eye so our brain reproduces it by combining red and green (the three basic colors are green, red and yellow btw)
@@mjproject7072 actually Purple is what you get when you mix Blue and Red. Crayola coined the term Purple because they couldn't call it Grape, and chose it over Violet *because it was too hard to pronounce for children according to them*
@@toffyflame0"Purple" traces back to the Middle English "purpel" and the Old English "purpul", which comes from the Latin "Purpura". So no, Crayola didn't coin it although they may have popularized it
I like this so much more than the clickbait fake ones. Something about the immediate confusion and perhaps anger is so much better than the fake reactions.
I'm so fascinated by this guy's reactions. Never seen anything at all of his, but the fact that he had no idea what to call the Final Destination color was amazing. It's a hot pink/magenta btw!
about red: red is the longest wavelength color, and shows up darkest when "color" is removed from it. in black and white, true red shows up really dark, and true cyan shows up really light.
The more you wear them the better you’ll get at seeing the colors because your brain has to learn for the first time how to process the new stimuli, its pretty cool actually
@@lawofgames9978 Well it's not like we can see color perfectly anyway. We know there are animals with more cones in their eyes than us, meaning there are colors and other such things that we can't perceive. So really, we're all being scammed by nature. Especially since, for all we know, the way we perceive certain colors could be completely wrong. We're just unable to know any better.
@@lawofgames9978 I'm so glad you know his experience better than the person experiencing it. You are a brilliant genius for knowing a color blind person's experience better than him. You're so smart and cool. How could anyone be cooler than you. Asshole.
@@gurvmlk Yes this if from a very famous neuroscientific phenomenon that was discovered first by a Scholar reading the Homer’s Odyssey, and then going back to many ancient text to realize that the ability to percieve the color blue arises first in humans in Egypt with the discovery of Lapis dye. From this we realized that for the brain to process stimuli, we have to engage with the stimuli. Homer described the sea and the skies as “wine-dark” because both the air and water are transparent or many different colors when you interact with them up close. Also, the color blue occurs very seldom in other parts of nature. Similar to Inuits that have so a magnitude more words for describing types of white and snow. Or African tribes that also have an expanded vocabulary for shades of green, but also when presented with A grid of 9 squares that are green, with 1 grid being slightly off shade, they differentiated the off-color with far greater accuracy than control conditions.
@@onetrickponysona2613 what's wrong with selling a colour blind young boy a pink DS? I don't know, he could've gotten bullied in school for using a girly colour he never asked for, he could've been called gay when he clearly isn't, could've been awkward around other kids his age that had different coloured DS's, could've given his relatives and parents the wrong idea, those kinds of things.
@@shaunthesheep24 Man, this is an example of why I hate gender norms so much. Let a man own something pink, it's just a color. Also, funny thing is that a long time ago, pink was considered a manly color while blue was associated with being feminine.
@@foppypoof5195 @Demon that lurks in your closet That ain't gonna stop kids from making fun of someone who's different or make people not judge you on what accessories or colour clothing you wear. I knew this guy at school who got bullied over eating a pink packet of Walkers Crisps. They called him pinky for 3 years. He never came to school with a pink packet of crisps ever again and it was his favourite flavour too. This other guy I knew was the pure definition of a jock. He did Judo was like 6.5 feet tall, won a few silver and even gold medals. He was super popular and everyone thought he was awesome, but as soon as he came out, everyone was shocked and just stopped hanging out with him. Some people even made fun of him. I learned while growing up that you shouldn't judge or make fun of people for what they eat, what they do or what they wear. I always believed that everyone was different, because if we were all the same, we'd be robots with no personality. Some people are bullys, some people are judgemental, everyone is different. That's life.
This was such a treat and made me appreciate colors a little more. I really hope he takes these outside someday, to watch a sunset, to reach a hiking summit, etc
Citrus Blast It wasn’t fake because he was crying, it was fake because he was fake crying. That whole video, his reactions to the color blind tests, his bird, it was all so obvious lol
This is one of the coolest things the algorithm has sent me to. I’m not even colorblind and I got choked up watching this. Awesome experience it seems. Maybe some mantis aliens can show up and give us glasses like these so all humans can experience the insane spectrum of light we’re all missing out on.
Aye I was in the chat and sent the FOD skin at 9:56! Chose that one specifically because it had a wide color gamut and knew it’d be neat for him to look at. Made me happy to have him see it :)
The algorithm brought me here despite the video being old but you can tell at the end it’s real because cody doesn’t have want to cry but he starts rubbing his eyes at the end and his nose turns red from the emotional stress.
Reminds me of an lsd trip. "Let me go outside real quick to see if my eyes adjust... Wtf mythologies are all metaphors for naturally occuring phenomenon?"
Your reaction is like a surprised happy animal, its adorable. So happy to see this. 8:00 the outline on FD is magenta, basically the "purest"/most saturated form of pink possible. Hope that helps. 3:45 it's forest green or closer to khaki I think.
I love rewatching this video, it's like watching an actual blind person finally given the ability to see after a lifetime of darkness... or a foreigner being in awe of whatever natural thing is present in an area the locals take for granted being an everyday thing for them
This dude can't even comprehend that colors are colorful, I love watching these videos of colorblind people being able to see color. It's like the first time I got glasses and I was like "oh, so there are actual shapes in real life, that's cool."
People that are color blind often don't actually lose the ability to see all colors. It's mostly certain colors that are gone and the differences between some are less pronounced. And in general we don't actually see things. Our brains process the absence of space and use that information to put things together. Everything is understood in our minds in a relative sense.
This is probably the most genuine reaction to these glasses. Everyone else over reacts acting like they are changing everything to be the most beautiful things ever.
I can believe that there's been general discrediting, but at the same time, Cody isn't shilling for them and he's genuinely colorblind, do you think it's all just placebo?
Dude I got clowned on in high school because I thought I was wearing gray socks and my buddy came up to me like “Why are you wearing those CUTE LITTLE PINK SOCKS?!!” Edit: Cody what glasses are these? I was gifted some but I didn’t have the wholesome reaction that you did :(
My dad's red/green colorblind and he got some similar glasses a while back. I hope you guys get to see colors exactly the way you're meant to one day, it'd be absolutely mind-blowing I'd imagine. Hopefully after that we can make glasses that show us colors we WEREN'T meant to see.
This put a big smile on my face. Super happy for you. Check out the game Ori and the Will of the Wisps; it’s one of the most beautiful games you’ll ever play (and it’s super good). There’s especially a ton of purple throughout the game and knowing now that you’re a fan of purple I think you’d have quite the experience with the game.