Blue Light Glasses

[BurntBanana]

Hey Everyone,

 

So after watching WAN show and saw Linus and Luke talking about their sponsors and saw Spektrum Glasses I decided to pick one up since they have a good return policy. 

 

https://www.spektrumglasses.com/products/dynamic-50-blue-light-blocking

 

I've never tried these before but it's really weird, after 10 minutes my eyes felt really weird but relaxed. Did anyone else have this feeling after wearing a set from the same or other manufacturers? 

[zDeathMagneticz]

I have a blue light filter in my everyday glasses, the reason it feels different is because blue light causes eye strain and messes with your brain and can make it harder to sleep if you look at blue light closer to the time you get to bed. Basically you probably got used to the eye stress like most people, and now that your eyes arent stressed it feels different.

[BurntBanana]

Oh ya I get the whole effects, didn't believe how must strain I had on my eyes in general so it was fairly alarming at first.

[Tharkz]

So this is really a thing?

I thought this was only a thing back in CRT-days, so I was surprised when they mentioned them as sponsors.

Recently we've had "Work environment inspection" come by my work place. I was offered this sort of glasses.

Maybe I should look for a pair.

[Revamp]

I also had new lenses made for my everyday's with blue light reduction/filtering.

World of improvement and didn't struggle closing my eyes to go to bed after a 8hour gaming session like normal

[BurntBanana]

21 hours ago, Tharkz said:

So this is really a thing?

I thought this was only a thing back in CRT-days, so I was surprised when they mentioned them as sponsors.

Recently we've had "Work environment inspection" come by my work place. I was offered this sort of glasses.

Maybe I should look for a pair.

I have gone to the optometrist I have been offered lenses with the filter. Thought I should give it a try and help out LTT at the same time. 

 

It's a bit of an adjustment but my eyes do feel a bit relaxed and you can notice less blue on the screen, granted a bit more yellow everywhere else. 

[BurntBanana]

36 minutes ago, Revamp said:

I also had new lenses made for my everyday's with blue light reduction/filtering.

World of improvement and didn't struggle closing my eyes to go to bed after a 8hour gaming session like normal

Ya I experienced that last night after using this after a day, granted I was wearing it on/off to see the difference.

 

Did you experience your eyes feeling more relaxed or just not as tense?

[Revamp]

Well prescription lenses are a bit different than the marketed "gaming" glasses with anti-blue.

Mine has layer between the glass that makes it look purple/reflective from the outside (picture yourself looking at me), but when looking through them, there is no yellow tint unlike my friends "gaming glasses" that he has.

So my picture is perfectly crisp and accurate colors (I do profressional photography so I couldn't afford a yellow tint over everything haha).

 

As for my eye feeling, I'm not quite sure I get what you mean. I feel like if my eyes aren't as tense, they are more relaxed and if my eyes are more relaxed, they are less tense. kind of the same thing unless I am misreading what you're asking.

 

They don't like over-relax my eyes and make them feel heavy, just less tense/strained.

[BurntBanana]

Thanks! I might on my next set of glasses get that sort of lense you have. Do you know what brand it was? I think the optometrist was saying it was from Kodak I believe.

 

I do gaming but I work full time as an online consultant so I have to look at multiple screens all day and after work game all the time so anything to help keep me healthy is necessary since I bike during the summer time. 

[Revamp]

1 hour ago, BurntBanana said:

Thanks! I might on my next set of glasses get that sort of lense you have. Do you know what brand it was? I think the optometrist was saying it was from Kodak I believe.

 

I do gaming but I work full time as an online consultant so I have to look at multiple screens all day and after work game all the time so anything to help keep me healthy is necessary since I bike during the summer time. 

I will try to check and see what my lens brand is. I have the full pamphlet at home if I can find it.

You sound much like me in the aspect I work at a bank corporate center and view multiple monitors all day every day, then go home and do photography/photo editing and gaming in my spare time. The glasses helped me a ton. The brand I got, within the same layer/filter as the anti-blue included a very premium anti-glare which nearly eliminated all the typical glasses glare during nighttime and rainy weather driving.

 

TL;DR I will check when I get home to see if I can figure out the brand.

[MooseTompson]

Hi I work in the optical industry. With Reflective blue coats the only thing that is proven with them is their ability to help with circadian rhythm. There is some evidence that removing the HEVL (high energy volatile light) helps reduce eye strain although I think it needs a couple more experiments done to be truly proven. 

 

Now there is also a possible draw back to blue light filtering. Some blue light has been linked to happiness and some blue light is linked to eye strain so if to much of the blue light spectrum is filtered out there's a possibility that you could be filtering the parts of the spectrum that increases happiness.  

 

I personally have the blue coat on my ophthalmic glasses and love it. It's similar to being in a room with warm lighting all the time or the ibooks sepia setting. Its something I would recommend getting on your glasses but it can be expensive. I'm not sure what parts of the blue spectrum that Spektrum filters out but Spektrum does filter 50% of the total blue spectrum vs the companies we go through which is 20%-35%. More in this sense is not necessarily better in this situation