Gunnar Optiks PPK-00101 PPK Glasses Gloss Onyx/Amber
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$79.99
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Color: Onyx/Amber
Top positive review
A must for anyone who spends every day in front of the PC. esp. with multiple displays.
By D. Bailey on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2013
I have 3 screens on my home computer and 3 screens now on my work PC. I started to get headaches and heavy eye fatigue to the point that any viewing of any LCD (including even TV) was irritating. I have a friend who has had a pair of these for years as he is also on a computer all day at work (CAD work) and games on the off hours and he recommended them. I made the leap after trying things unsuccessfully such as turning all my monitors to minimum brightness and immediately could tell a difference with these on. The sheer amount of light from 3 screens was still intense but it no longer made me cringe from being photosensitive if you will. after a few days of use i could look at LCD screens again without them on, but a full day in front of a PC without them still hurts. I will be buying them again for work in the very near future. I wear them sometimes at home now in front of the TV if i have spent all day at work without them. Im in my late 20's and have been in front of PC's every day almost since i was a kid. My job requires it and my pastimes revolve around it. with migrating to multiple monitors on all of my computers in the last few years, it just became too much strain. One screen helps, turning the brightness down helps, but that only treats the symptoms. If you are in front of monitors all day everyday, pick one of the models that suits your style, and go for it. If you currently can barely stand to look at an LCD, then pay for express shipping on these. You will be thankful you did. These are certainly worth the price for what they do, but they are also high quality as well. they are incredibly light weight, but do NOT feel cheap at all. the frame flexes very easily, but never 'bends'. My toddler has hit me in the face with toys and his head a few times while wearing these (he likes to sit in my lap and watch what i do) , and so far no damage or scratches. They ARE however, fingerprint, sweat, and dust magnets like no tomorrow. I would recommend purchasing the matching cleaning kit and hard case as well. You cannot seem to wipe fingerprints off easily with like a shirt or something like you usually can with sunglasses and such, it just smears, I assume this is due to whatever coatings are on these. The cleaning kit you can get for these does an excellent job of restoring them to like new clarity.
Top critical review
18 people found this helpful
Really wanted to be able to use them
By James Tanner on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016
I'm a Software Developer for one of those giant mega-corps and I bought these because I found myself suffering from a lot of eye strain at work. Especially when wearing contacts instead of glasses, my workplace is quite bright and that - combined with focusing on small text all day - gets exhausting. A note about my specific setup: I use two 29" ultrawide monitors, side by side, in portrait mode for a total screen area of about 22.6" x 26.7". That means that the distance from my eyes to the center of the screen is a LOT shorter than the distance from my eyes to one of the edges. This is important context for my review, as you'll see. With that out of the way, let's talk about the pros: The tinting is fantastic and does a great job of filtering the fluorescent lighting overhead and the brightness from the large screen surface. The slight magnification also makes text on a screen really "pop". Even small fonts at the far top and bottom edges of my screens were crystal clear and easy to read. When I first put on the glasses, I was thrilled at how much of a difference they made. Had I written this review right then, it'd be 5/5 "Would buy again!" But, unfortunately, that didn't turn out to be the case. Here's why: After wearing the glasses for about 10-15 minutes, I started to experience severe nausea and a headache. It felt quite similar to motion sickness or snow blindness. I had to take the glasses off and it took a little while to recover. I tried them again several times over the course of the day and each time would start to feeling sick after just a few minutes of wearing them. I even tried again the next day with the same results. So what happened? I'm not really sure. I rarely, if ever, suffer from motion sickness. I can play first-person games for hours, read books in the car, etc, without any problems. So it seemed strange that these glasses would make me so ill. One thing that I did notice was that I tended to be fine so long as I was only working in one section of my monitor, such as the browser window I keep in the middle of my left monitor. As soon as I started using things at the top or bottom, it'd rapidly start feeling sick. So I suspect that it's the magnification combined with constantly changing the distance I was focusing at. Ultimately, they just didn't end up being wearable for me and I had to return them. Your experience may well differ. In fact, I would still recommend trying these if you have a more standard monitor configuration. But if you have a particularly large monitor setup, or have to regularly look away from your monitor for other things, I'd recommend trying something else.
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