Correcting Color Blindness using Impossible Colors (VR)

[@ooqui]

*How to watch this video:* Open the KZbin app on your VR headset and play this video in full screen. It might lag in 4k, but a 4k resolution is preferable. The video will run smoother in 1440p, but everything will look more blurry then. This is due to how VR videos work and are constructed. This is sadly the maximum resulotion possible currently. Additionally I've also implemented a version of the impossible colors you can see in VR that shows these colors as time-based/temporal colors. So you can watch the video also without VR on the right screen, but of course the experience isn't the same then. The upper small screen is just a screen with the original colors for an immediate comparison. Do not expect to see entirely new colors! This is method NOT a cure! But it's a correction, the best I've invented. You can expect to see impossible color combinations of the colors you can already see. New color experiences that you've never seen before, in a meaningful context. The more you learn about impossible colors and the more you study these specific impossible colors the more you'll be able to identify the correct colors based on such impossible color mixtures. Give your eyes and brain some time to adjust to this new kind of color vision. This is a "simple" form of simulated trichromacy, meaning the custom color spectra designed for each eye's color vision can be chosen much better. This simulated trichromacy is also mainly directed at protanopes. If you've got protanomaly, and can even just see a slightly different hue in addtion to yellow-ish, blue-ish, white and black, then you're possiblities for impossible colors will be greatly enhanced. Your left eye has simulated protanopia and your right eye an enhanced protanopia color spectrum as a basis for its color vision. So when closing your right eye, you'll see the world similar to someone with protanopia. *Video mistakes:* - At the beginning 00:00 warning message it should say: "simulated trichromacy" instead of "tetrachromacy. - Imagine the colored glasses at minute 3:50 all being cyan, also without lag.

[@zromitsman]

Once more, you leave everyone speechless. I've noticed that the way colours in a small pallet are combined to create a new and richer pallet is strikingly similar to how computers used to render colours with a 16 bit range. Up close you could distinguish the original smaller "fake" colours, at a normal viewing distance the colours merged together to make a new, more vivid colour.

[@xynonners]

I wonder if there's any actually product like this (that automatically converts "normal" colors. Also, I wonder if something like quantum dots - used in TV screens (that take in certain wavelengths and remit the same brightness of light but in other wavelengths), could essentially be used inside a pair of glasses that create this "impossible" colors

[@ooqui]

Well, my appliaction "Color in Color" (in combination with VR) can already automatically convert the millions of normal colors to any other normal color, however so for only digital due to the nature of the technology. I'm in the process of designing special analogue filter glasses that try to achieve similar effects, also working with impossible colors. The quantum dots sound very interesting and I'll read into that topic, thank you. :)

[@Jonas-Seiler]

Bro hell nah, these vr videos are too much for me to handle

[@ooqui]

Impossible colors are something you have to learn to perceive to some extent; or rather you have to learn to understand how to perceive them. This kind of impossible color vision can be unstable in the beginning. But once your brain is used to seeing these impossible colors, it'll be almost as normal as seeing normal colors. If you mean VR videos in general, then I can't help you with that.

[@Jonas-Seiler]

@@ooqui ah sorry, I've never really encountered a vr video before and I only saw this while on my phone. on pc its way more tolerable, but I still think for these kinds of educational videos it might be too much information at once that you have to actively try to spot. the colors are still weird, but I think I got the gist of what you were showing.

[@WoolyCow]

i dont have a vr headset so id love to know how how effective people find this. if u could get it working lemme know :D cool vid

[@ooqui]

I'm very eager to find that out myself. I've already tested it on myself many times, while simulating protanopia, and it worked really well each time. But you never really know until you put it to the test on real color vision deficient individuals.

[@MatheAPro]

That's was amazing 😍🤩, can't wait to see what's come next 😊❤❤❤

[@ooqui]

Thanks! Next up I'll render all the major impossible color combinations in a single video. It'll be at least a 60 minute video, which will show 360.000 distinctly identifyable impossible colors.