hey what's up Dr. Allen here with yet another video to help you see your very best and today
we're talking all about blue light glasses but specifically video gaming glasses.
going over common questions such as do gaming glasses
really work? and is there a difference between blue light blocking glasses and gaming glasses?
not really except that there are some key advantages which we're going to dive into
as we review the best gaming glasses right now which are from Gamer Advantage let's take a look
hey welcome back to the dr eye health show and if you're new here on this channel we help people
learn about the eyes vision we share tips on how to see your best as well as occasionally going
over cool products like these gaming glasses from Gamer Advantage now i've been wearing these for
probably the last four or five months mainly while playing video games but also in the evenings while
watching Netflix while we're winding down to go to bed now that's because i am trying to work on my
sleep routine because getting better quality sleep can affect how you perform at work such as me in
the eye clinic or it can affect how you perform academically and learning new memories for school
all the way to performing in video games to being in athletics if you're trying to build muscle i
know not much there but something i'm working on there's even studies showing that having sleep
deprivation can affect things like dementia and Alzheimer's later in life and that's where blue
light blocking glasses and gaming glasses come in because they can dampen the negative effects on
your sleep cycle from being exposed to blue light all day there's even a lot of people and including
some of my patients who at least anecdotally report reduced eye strain and headaches while
wearing similar products so you might be able to tell that these are a bit used but it's because
i put them back into the box so we can do a full unboxing so you can see what it's like to get a
whole set of gamer advanced lenses with all the bells and whistles and we're going to talk about
the price all the specs are they good are they worth it all of that let's go all right so first
thing opening the box and i'll comment on this no glasses companies ever put things in a box this is
kind of a cool experience and i absolutely love it because it's kind of like opening a present
and i just hope more glasses companies put things in a box kind of a weird comment but i love it so
let's look at it now right away opening up we have a lot of cool goodies inside and we're gonna touch
on all of this but the important thing is the gaming glasses so let's talk about that first
now it does come in a microfiber cloth pouch which is kind of nice if you're gonna be traveling to
like a friend's house or something i personally don't use it very much but uh it does make it
so it doesn't scratch the lenses and you can use it to clean the glasses too if you're in a pinch
now usually when you do get manufactured glasses they come in these little bags and it
has a nice label at least that it's from the core collection these are inferno obsidian frames now
without going too much into the frame design everything like that right away you can tell
something different about these lenses and when i put them on compared to other blue light glasses
and other gaming glasses that are out there the lenses are not bright yellow and that's because
gamer advantage and i'll tell you this they don't want me to tell you who makes their lenses
but i'll tell you that they are one of the most leading manufacturers in blue light blocking
technology in fact usually you can only get their lenses if you buy it from a local eye clinic
but they own a patent on the blue light blocking technology in their lenses that allows the lenses
to block blue light without it being a bright yellow lens which means that you can play video
games and do whatever you want without the colors being distorted so you can play the games exactly
how the developer intended you to play that game specifically the lenses block at a 455 nanometer
light wavelength that's the exact peak intensity of blue light that's emitted from digital screens
and also happens to land in the sensitivity zone where the human eye is most sensitive to blue
light in affecting our melatonin production and as a healthcare professional it's also important
for me to have scientific data support the use of anything like this and they did have a study in
fact they actually printed the results here on the box saying that they had more than 2 000 patients
in a clinical survey reporting over 99.1 percent of them having their eyes feeling more relaxed at
doors that over 98 of them reported significant sleep improvements and a clinical trial showing
melatonin levels increased by 96 in just five days so that makes me again feel a lot better about
these in addition to all the cool technology in the lenses they also include an anti-reflective or
anti-glare on both the front and the back surface of the lenses which is something that again
is something that i strongly value a bit of a snob about in the optical world and compared to other
blue light blocking and especially gaming glasses that are out there and i can show a demonstration
the anti-reflective is just way better in these gamer advantage lenses than in a lot of the other
competing products especially if you're on like a webcam or anything like that you're shooting
videos you don't want to be like constantly having these reflections bouncing into the lenses
it just you don't want that look you want people to be able to see your eyes emotions reactions
all of that as far as the frame itself it is made of a pretty nice durable plastic that is bendable
it has these cool rubberized tips at the end so that when you put them on they'll grip the back
here behind your ear so they won't slide down your nose as easily and as you can see the frame
temples are made super thin that way when you put them on and you're wearing a gaming headset
the headset isn't going to push super hard on your own temples making them uncomfortable and
something they specifically thought of and designed for it to be that way now as far as
prescription goes for a pair of non-prescription just plano gaming glasses from gamer advantage
they run around the 75 to 80 us dollar range which is honestly pretty competitive compared
to most other gaming glasses and even higher end blue light blocking glasses out on the market
but you can get them in prescription but it's going to cost you probably close to double that
just for the lenses i personally haven't tried the prescription one so i can't really fully comment
on them but they are available now they do have a couple other packages one of them is called
their deluxe package which not just comes with the glasses but they also come with these cool
sunglasses clip-ons now these have little magnets built into them and they're pretty good quality
they're kind of flexible so you know if you kind of sit on them or something like that that's not
that big of a deal but they snap right onto the front with little magnets and now they become
sunglasses so if you do have a pair of let's say prescription ones and you're wearing them all
the time just all day long then you don't need to switch to a prescription sunglasses you can just
clip these on and off you go one small thing i'll comment on is the magnets on them are actually
pretty strong a lot of companies you'll like shake them like this and the sunglasses will fall right
off but these ones actually hold on pretty well and the sunglasses clip is polarized which is
something i like helps reduce glare when you're driving but i will comment if you are a gamer who
likes to sit outside with their laptop if you're wearing these because of the polarized filter you
probably won't be able to see the screen very well if you're not fully sure what polarized means you
want to know more about that i have a video going over the exact same thing and again you can always
learn more by checking out some of the video links i'll put in the video description below
but again polarized lenses something i like not everyone's into it but i think it's a nice touch
and i think it's only an extra like 15 for having this cool pretty good decent quality magnetic
clip-on now everything else in here i got because it's part of the elite collection which comes with
the nice cool stronger kind of individual carrying case for the lenses which is made pretty well you
get these with a lot of different brands and companies for that make glasses but i do like
the triangle design it makes it a little bit easier and it folds so that you can put it into
like your back pocket or something like that so that's pretty cool it also comes with a lens and
screen cleaner which is pretty cool because yeah your glasses are going to get dirty and you can
clean them and you can clean your screen with it and look here they did come with a dedicated
gamer advantage lens cloth it's even nice it's got to cool all these symbols embroidered onto it too
i love this material and then this this is something that i just you don't see any glasses
company have or sell and i wish more people did this it's a stand for your glasses that
way you can put it next to your computer or next to your tv wherever you're going to be gaming and
you can always take off your glasses and set them right there on the stand and you always have them
i personally just i like this cool touch because i wish i had like a dedicated stand like this for
all my regular glasses so i could have them like next to my like bedside or something like that so
when i take my glasses off going to bed i have a place i can directly put them rather than getting
knocked off somewhere onto the floor or anything like that now i also got to try out their fog
away spray which compared to other anti-fog sprays and and chemicals that are out there it does work
exceptionally well i've been testing it out not other than just glasses but mainly at work because
we have to wear face masks while i'm in clinic and allows me to put anti-fog on all of my condensing
lenses and my microscope so that i can see inside the eye and do the eye exam and it doesn't really
work it's a you know about 99 of the time it does the trick so if you're just kind of curious about
the fog away product it does work as well now as far as my final thoughts about blue light glasses
gaming glasses all of that we do know that blue light does affect our sleep cycles mainly through
our retinal physiology in our neuroanatomy now using gaming glasses i do find has some benefits
i've been using them mainly to again help with my sleep cycle patterns in the evening now i do have
those questions is it a placebo effect versus is it truly the blue light glasses helping with
my melatonin production but we know that at least through these studies that it does help with your
melatonin production so it makes me feel a little bit better about that as far as people's claims
about helping with their eye fatigue eye strain headaches things like that i personally haven't
noticed any of those effects but i have had at least patients anecdotally tell me
that blue light glasses do help them with their eye strain and from everything we've gone over
especially the lenses that are included in these that's probably why i would consider
these the best gaming classes out right now if you yourself one check out anything from
gamer advantage including the new frame designs that they come out with i'll put a link in the
top of the video description below but let me know in the comment section what your thoughts
are about blue light glasses gaming glasses do they work for you maybe not also let me know
what games you're playing right now because i'm always looking for a new game to play otherwise
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all right one other quick update here now after shooting the video i realized oh you probably want
to know hey what do i personally think about them and have they really helped me sleep and
do they improve my gaming experience like improving my ability performance when i'm gaming
like competitively or something like that i would say yes it is helping me sleep better
in fact when i wear them especially at nighttime like at maybe 6 p.m until later i do feel way more
tired and fatigued in the evening and i fall asleep faster and i think that's because my
melatonin is being suppressed by staring at the computer screens all at night time instead as
the sun goes down my melatonin's being released and i am starting to feel more tired as far as my
gaming performance while i'm wearing them i don't don't think i'm being a better gamer or i'm being
more focused while i'm wearing them per se but i feel more well-rested in the mornings and more
productive throughout the day and if you are a competitive gamer i think having that well-rested