However, in this case, the person you’re watching is someone who is watching something he probably thought he’d never be able to see: a sunset, in full, glorious color.
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Aaron Williams-Mele uploaded the video to his YouTube page and said his parents gave him a pair of Enchroma Color for the Colorblind glasses for his birthday. He tried out the glasses at sunset at Whitehurst Beach, in Virginia, and is visibly overwhelmed in the video above.
But for all their sophisticated technology and use of perceptual psychophysics, the glasses left Aaron Williams-Mele at a loss for words.
The experience was obviously very emotional for him.
Watch the emotional moment above.
EnChroma Cx Lens boost colour vision, allowing the colourblind to see properly. Instead, they “use filters to kind of clean up the signals that go to the cone cells in your eyes that absorb red and green”.
This guy has a new outlook on the world – and it’s bright and colorful.
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Immediately after putting them on, Williams-Mele’s smile melts right off his face.
