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Gunnar Optiks Anyone?

lwisemanlwiseman Registered User new member
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
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Gunnar Optics makes "high performance digital eyewear" for people who spend copious amounts of time in front of a computer screen to help combat computer eye strain and prevent Computer Vision Syndrome.

I am a graphic designer/videographer by day and gamer by night so I spend roughly 90% of my waking hours in front of a glowing screen. Being an avid PA reader I noticed after looking into these glasses that they had a booth at PAX this year.

Did anyone check out their booth? Do you own a pair? Do they work?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • ArminasArminas Student of Life SF, CARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I somehow saw an ad for these too. And I'm a software developer by day and a gamer by night. I too proudly sit in front of a glowing screen a lot of the time. So I'd love to hear about anything on this too. I've got vision coverage so I figured I might look into getting a pair of these as my next glasses. I kind of would like to see and touch the glasses before buy them though. I usually like a really light pair of glasses because mine tend to slide down my nose quite easily.

    Although, I wondered if the research was more gimicky than factual. I didn't sit through all of the stuff they had put up about the terrible symptoms I might have.

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Interesting in theory ...

    I'd be curious to hear from someone who has them.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The other solution to this, of course, is to turn down your monitor's brightness :P

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  • The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    But then not everything is max

    we cannot have something that is not max

    raslin you are silly

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  • GihgehlsGihgehls Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Those have a yellow tint it looks like. How could tinting your vision help you work on a computer? I mean, I guess it would be fine if color wasn't important to you.

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  • ArminasArminas Student of Life SF, CARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Gihgehls wrote: »
    Those have a yellow tint it looks like. How could tinting your vision help you work on a computer? I mean, I guess it would be fine if color wasn't important to you.

    I think that's only one style of their glasses. I was flipping through them and I remember a large number of them did not have colored lenses.

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