So are you researching for the best gaming glasses? if so you're gonna love
this video, I'm dr. Joseph Allen I'm an eye doctor who's also very passionate
about video games and I'm gonna review everything about the secrets behind the
Gunnar gaming glasses. let's take a look hey everyone welcome
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donor glasses so now if you're anything like me you probably grew up spending a
lot of your time glutens I have a television screen playing a lot of video
games even though I'm an eye doctor now and I spend a lot time seeing patients
in the clinic or studying medicine I still love to come home and game out
just to de-stress needless to say I got pretty excited when I found out that
there's such a thing as a gaming glasses and these ones specifically are from
Gunnar. now I first heard about Gunnar gaming glasses maybe five years ago I
was actually at the store and of all places like at Best Buy and actually saw
Gunnar glasses on the shelf next to all the video games but actually recently
checked out their website and found out they they actually have a lot of
different options not just gaming glasses but also computer glasses. so I
thought you know what let's give them a review and see what they're all about
now the whole point of gaming glasses is to relieve eye fatigue and really any
ice cream that you may get from staring at a computer screen or a television
screen just a few feet away from your face for hours on end like if you're
playing competitive gaming or if you're playing online and you just you know
want to win some of the common symptoms you get from digital eye strain are
usually this kind of pain right between the eyes
maybe our frontal headaches sometimes even a headache in the back of the head
but yes this eye strain is a pretty common problem now that everybody seems
to be on computer screens and some digital device all day so when I first
picked up a pair of the gunnar gaming glasses I wasn't sure what to expect I
honestly thought they were just gonna be like any other yellow blue light
protecting glasses but it turns out there's actually a lot more to these
Gunnar gaming glasses than meets the eye now what's unique is that when you put
these glasses on that first time I was like whoa there is something different
about these glasses these are not just plain old glasses meaning zero power I
actually you feel a magnification of whatever
you're looking at when you first put them on and I actually had to do some
research they don't say on the box or advertise anywhere that there's a little
bit of a magnification power in these glasses but no I actually had to take it
to the clinic took a measurement and they actually come up with 0.25 diopters
of distance plus power so they actually magnify things just a little bit but I
actually did a little bit more research now our device is only so sensitive so
doing the little research it actually shows that it's a 0.20 diopters of power
but that little bit of plus power is actually very beneficial because as an
eye doctor we actually prescribe small amounts of plus power to relieve I
strain all the time whether it be reading glasses computer glasses or
something along those lines that little bit of plus power actually allows you to
relieve the eye muscle tension you have on the muscle called the ciliary body
that's the muscle inside of the eye that allows you to focus and magnify near
objects so even though it's just a little bit of plus power when you first
put them on you can actually tell that there's magnification in these second
thing about these Gunnar glasses that I didn't realize right away again I
actually had to measure these in the clinic and actually found out that these
actually have prism in them and they do that by decentering the optical centers
of the glasses the optical centers are the part of the lens that you're
supposed to be looking through when you're looking straight ahead and they
actually decenter them a little bit more that way it actually induces just a
faint amount of base in prism which actually helps reduce more eye fatigue
because there's not just the muscle inside of the eye that used to focus but
there's actually that eye muscles on the outside of the eye that you used to turn
your eyes inward and converge just like looking at your finger up close and go
cross-eyed a little bit that same kind of concept when you're looking at
something up close your eye muscles have to converge and then hold that position
for long periods of time if you're staring at a computer screen or gaming
all day those two benefits combined are something that I did not expect when I
first got these glasses and then comes the blue light protection that's built
into the glasses just like most computer glasses that you find nowadays they have
some type of a yellow tint to them but the Gunnar brand actually measures out a
450 nanometer wavelengths of light which affect most of our sleep cycles and they
actually found that this LED has about a 65% blocking rate at that
450 nanometer mark now if you're somebody who doesn't like the yellow
tinting the gunnar brand does have many different levels you can choose from
something that's really light that doesn't have almost any yellow
protection blue blocker in it or if you can go all the way up to a darker orange
if you're someone who's more concerned about blue light protection or maybe you
actually play video games on a laptop outside in the Sun honestly when I first
got these I was just so surprised that there was more to it than just a yellow
blue blocking lenses and they actually put a lot of thought into these gunner
glasses and honestly I'm pretty impressed I think if you're somebody who
plays a lot of video games you spend a lot time in front of a computer it's
probably best to take breaks once in a while give your eyes a rest you know
follow the 20-20-20 rule if you've never heard of that that means every 20
minutes of staring at a digital screen you take 20 second break looking twenty
feet away there's also some concerns staring at
computer screens all day long actually causes dry eyes and that's mainly
because we don't blink as often when we're staring at a computer screen
there's actually some research out there that shows that having blue light
glasses actually helps reduce the amount of eyes stress that you have and that
actually brings your blink rate back back to normal
therefore reducing the amount of dry eyes you have now I certainly think of
all the gaming glasses these might be the best gaming glasses I've found so
far but I do want to encourage you that if you are considering having any sort
of gaming glasses or even computer glasses make sure you talk with your eye
doctor first make sure that they can get you a prescription that's specifically
tailored for being on the computer at a certain set distance that's going to
give you the optimal optimal performance so I asked question of the day have you
ever used gaming glasses like these Gunners or have you seen any other
gaming glasses that you'd like me to review go ahead and comment this section
below I'd like to hear what you think alright everyone thanks for watching
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