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- [Presenter] World's Greatest Optical Poetry.
Third edition.
- It has been a few years now, so I think
that you might be needy for a bit of optical poetry reading.
Today's topic is most exciting
something to make night driving, more inviting.
Something quite special on the menu today.
Something to help you find your way.
We shall look at a brand new coating that helps at night.
It helps by filtering quite specific light.
Yellow, it is not nor a tint either.
Rather, a coating to make you a safer nighttime driver.
A coating, carefully engineered,
technology driven and scientific.
I think that you will find it quite terrific.
If the thought of night driving puts you in a bind,
this new coating a great help you might find.
If night driving for you is quite a fright,
you'll want to try our new coating we call night light.
Wow. This is actually better you will say.
And remember you heard about it from that guy from Laramy-K.
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Okay. This is big, huge pay attention.
We have done about 200
of these videos over the last five or six years now.
I don't believe I have used the terms revolutionary new,
different, game changer very often
and if I did, I am certain.
I said maybe somewhere in that video.
This really is something new.
This is something to be excited about.
What is it?
It is the nightlight night driving coating.
It was developed by a Quantum.
If you have questions about Quantum,
there is a video that you can watch
with some links to learn more about that company.
Nightlight is our branding of that coating through Laramy-K
and it is part of a great AR stack also created by Quantum.
Now, if you go to the Laramy-K website
and you dig back into the old blog post,
you'll actually find an article called
The Dangers of Night Driving Glasses.
Now, that was based on lenses that were tinted.
They're usually tinted yellow.
You still see the ads for those
in Parade Magazine in AARP, a horrible idea.
Tinting is bad.
Tinting is not an exact science.
This is a coating.
Coating good.
Coating is engineered to handle the specific wavelengths
of light that give you trouble driving at night.
Let me read something off the website.
A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.
Take a meter roughly the same as a yard
or three feet and then divide it into a billion equal parts.
Compare that to the millimeter that we use every day
as opticians, which is an enormous 1000th of a meter.
Now, try to imagine a coating that can control only
the light waves measuring 565 to 595
while ignoring the wavelengths on either side.
I'll let you think about that for the rest of the day.
That is how this coating helps address the problems
that we face one night driving.
Now, what are the benefits to it?
Well, Quantum says,
that it improves color saturation and contrast.
Now, what does that mean for us when we're driving at night?
Well, kind of in a way everything.
Remember that we see with our brain, not with our eyes.
Our eyes simply gather information
for our brains to interpret.
The greater the color saturation
of the objects that we are looking out
at through our windshield when driving at night.
The greater the contrast between those items,
the easier it is for our brain to interpret it
what it is that we're looking at.
Is it a puddle?
Is it a pothole?
Is it a tree or is it a person?
Is it an animal in the road or just a shadow?
The more we have a color saturation and contrast,
the better we can pick it.
Pick out what it is that we're seeing
especially in the dark.
Huge difference.
And I should say I had a pair of these made.
I don't drive at night very often,
but I did force myself to take a drive
around my neighborhood and man,
this stuff works amazing, amazing stuff.
Now another benefit Quantum says,
it reduces high intensity light flare.
Now what is that to us?
I think it's everything.
I think this is how most people see night driving problems.
Instead of seeing a street light
or a traffic light or headlights
as the round object that they are with a clear light band,
we get the star or the flare, right?
We get the halos around things
or perhaps even just kind of a blur
reduces that headlights look like headlights.
Traffic lights look like traffic lights,
street lights look like street lights, clean crisper.
Now these two are connected.
It also reduces light sensitivity.
Now what is that?
That is, unless you're just going to the store and back
if you're driving any length of time at night
and you are encountering light flare over and over again,
well, that creates light sensitivity.
Like fatigue.
If we can eliminate this,
well, then we decrease that light sensitivity
so it's far more comfortable over time
and you are safer and so are the people
around you while you're driving at night.
Now we have had some feedback, so I have to mention it.
The coating does have a rather pink purple hue to it.
You've all seen blue light filters by now.
Have the blue sheen.
Well, this does have a little bit
of a pink purple sheen to it.
Over time, that will lessen a little bit
and if that is a huge concern
for you and night driving is an issue,
then you might want to consider a plano clip-on to go
over your regular glasses to help with night driving.
Worth mentioning it is a great coating.
It works, it helps, it's an aid.
Now coating can give you the eyes
of a 20-year-old again if you aren't 20.
So, don't think you're gonna put these on
and turn back time 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years.
With that said, we are getting feedback
from very young people
in their twenties who have tried these, don't wear glasses,
but put these on as a plano
and actually find it helps them driving at night.
Mid 2023, it is currently only available through Laramy-K.
I'm sure that's about to change, but at Laramy-K,
we can put it on any lens material, any lens style
and it comes as part
of our very high-end IACE AR coating stack.
Thank you so much for watching.
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with our IACE AR coating also has nightlight.
Thanks for watching.
Well, I could understand maybe that would be a problem
if you had, no coating has bells or.