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What would happen if someone who isn't colorblind wears these? Do the reds appear even stronger?

Do they sell a pair of sunglasses that's marketed towards people without color blindness.

Supposedly, it boosts saturation of colors to create "vivid" and "bright" worlds.

I'd love to try them.

I wondered the same thing. I want to try on a pair, just to contrast my total lack of emotional response against the response of those who benefit from these glasses.

Also, I wonder if similar technology could be used to better visualize the presence of UV light, or maybe infrared (sans electricity), beyond the realm of typical human perception.

Just last week I was wondering if this was possible. I hadn't heard about these glasses until today, but I was thinking about the possibility of bringing UV into the visible spectrum.

Mostly this was based on something I had read about with respect to cataract surgery. Apparently the lenses block UV from reaching the retina, but with cataract surgery that isn't the case and patients have to wear glasses to prevent excess UV from damaging the eyes. Apparently Monet [1] had cataract surgery in 1923 and his paintings from that era suggest that he was seeing something in the UV spectrum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

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