Gaming glasses for programming

1    04 Aug 2015 03:20 by u/robtimus_prime

Do gaming glasses like these actually help to reduce eye strain? I frequently forget to look away from my monitor frequently so I'm looking for a sort of back up.

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What the? Something like this exists?

A quick question regarding the eye strain you're suffering from: Do you program in well lit environments? Do you use a bright or a dark color scheme for your applications?

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have something light up the wall behind your monitor doesn't have to very powerful, I myself is using an RGB Led lamp currently set in a whitish bluish color, I get less tired and less headaches aswell :)

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Don't buy into the "Gamer Glasses" they are just yellow tinted glasses. Unless they are prescription, they are not worth the price.

Do they help? Our eyes are sensitive to the color green. Generally speaking the light indoors is blue shifted. Yellow lenses shift the spectrum back into what we are supposed to see.

Does it help? No. Why? Look around the room. How much green do you see. Almost nothing right? The walls are white. Your desk is beige. Your chair is grey. The carpet is brown. You're senses are going to be overwhelmed with or without the yellow tinted glasses. Look at the wall with yellow tinted glasses and you don't see green. You see yellow, which is just as bad as seeing blue.