Special goggles for looking at your computer and suchlike

I don't see how they can do anything that couldn't be done by adjusting the contrast and brightness of your screen. Most monitors are set to blindingly bright and that's what kills my eyes. After adjusting the contrast and brightness I don't have a problem anymore unless I way overdo my screen time, special glasses can't remedy that.

You get eye fatigue because you focus intently on the screen at the same distance for long periods, causing your eyes to keep the same focus and never relaxing, that's why you get headaches for example, glasses won't do anything about that.

Lot's of claims with no scientific studies from creditable sources, only anecdotal evidence, hype and hearsay.

They reduce dry eyes? How? Is there like a mister built in that moistens your eyes?

Sounds like snakeoil to me.

I don't use them but I have a couple of colleagues who do and they swear by them. I've tried them on and they seem ok. But not sure what they'll do unless you are really troubled by staring at a computer display for a while.

ProjectM


I don't use them but I have a couple of colleagues who do and they swear by them. I've tried them on and they seem ok. But not sure what they'll do unless you are really troubled by staring at a computer display for a while.

They help when reading the FSF...

Have you tried to calibrate your monitor Sharke?

It really helped my eyes a lot.

You can get High Definition color test patterns on Youtube. If you use a download manager you can save them to your PC.

I think a lot of the complaining upstairs about X1/2 looking so ugly is because folk's don't have their monitors set up right. After I did mine X2 looked a lot better.

I threw the test patterns on a USB stick and plugged in to my TV and calibrated it and holy guacamole what a difference it made! The hardest part about doing it is setting up the color white and making it look natural. The lighting around your PC monitor and TV greatly effects how white looks, so if you try this, make sure you do it in a light setting that you will be in the majority of the time.

The test patterns don't come with instructions ... they're just 1080P patterns. If you've never done it before ... make sure you turn Edge Enhancement off, Sharpness all the way down, Digital Noise Reduction off, anything along those lines that digitally alter the picture to make it clearer. Make sure you set your black adjustments to where you like them, this is mostly on TV's but some higher end monitors have it as well. Then set all your color and white controls to the middle. I started adjusting white first, then moved on to colors. I also found that it's a lot like mixing/mastering in that I had to take breaks or my eyes got all funky and I really messed the white scale up.

When I did it to my TV it looked like a completely different set. I was amazed at what a difference just balancing the colors and white scale could make.

Once you set all that stuff, you'll find that you hardly have to adjust Sharpness, and I never turned Edge Enhancement back on ... didn't need to.

Good luck, I think it's fun tinkering with this calibration stuff.

Yeah maybe I need to calibrate my monitor. Actually I did read about some Windows app that tones down your colors into something more night-friendly and relaxing...the problem being that many of us use our computers until we go to bed, and the bright white light makes it harder for us to wind down and fall asleep. Warming the colors on your monitor makes for better sleep apparently. 

I'd get a set of the Gunnars to test only I'd need a prescription set and God knows how much that would set me back. 

Kenneth


I don't see how they can do anything that couldn't be done by adjusting the contrast and brightness of your screen. Most monitors are set to blindingly bright and that's what kills my eyes. After adjusting the contrast and brightness I don't have a problem anymore unless I way overdo my screen time, special glasses can't remedy that.

You get eye fatigue because you focus intently on the screen at the same distance for long periods, causing your eyes to keep the same focus and never relaxing, that's why you get headaches for example, glasses won't do anything about that. 

Glasses filled with special beer might help.