Do Those Glasses Really Fix Colorblindness?
You've seen those viral videos of colorblind people putting on special glasses and reacting to colors they've never seen before! Today, we'll explore how colorblindness works and what those...
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A while back, there were a whole bunch of videos with the same theme that went viral:someone who is colorblind puts on special glasses, and suddenly they can see the worldin all its colorful glory!Some people freak out, some people cry, some people can't stop staring at colors they saythey've never seen.When we first heard about this, we were like we need to make a video about that immediately!And then we spend years basically, trying to get to the bottom of it.And this is the culmination of that.Thank you, to our writing staff.But the glasses don’t just, like, turn on a bunch of new colors for colorblind people.And when people put the glasses on, they aren’t suddenly seeing the world the way people withnormal color vision do.The glasses just filter ...
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A while back, there were a whole bunch of videos with the same theme that went viral:someone who is colorblind puts on special glasses, and suddenly they can see the worldin all its colorful glory!Some people freak out, some people cry, some people can't stop staring at colors they saythey've never seen.When we first heard about this, we were like we need to make a video about that immediately!And then we spend years basically, trying to get to the bottom of it.And this is the culmination of that.Thank you, to our writing staff.But the glasses don’t just, like, turn on a bunch of new colors for colorblind people.And when people put the glasses on, they aren’t suddenly seeing the world the way people withnormal color vision do.The glasses just filter ...
