How to See More Hues (VR)

[@ooqui]

*IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:* This is a color vision that approaches a form of tetrachromatic color vision, but is still far away from (simulating) a form of real functional tetrachromacy. On RGB screens this method still works with trichromatic data. Because the additional impossible binocular color combinations specifically displayed in this video add more perceivable hues overall and enhance your color discriminability, it's an enhancement of your trichromatic vision more than a simulation of a form of tetrachromacy. There are methods to simulate a form of tetrachromacy which comes a lot closer to "real" functional tetrachromacy, but the method shown in this video is just a very simple "near" tetrachromatic-ish vision, which doesn't add an entirely new dimension of colors. You can argue that this simple form of simulated "behaviorally close to" tetrachromacy is just a better trichromacy, which it technically is. But this is like arguing that trichromacy is just a better dichromacy, which is also technically correct, but also hugely misunderstood. With each incremental addition of a new distinct cone type, even if it's a very similar cone type to one of the already existing ones, the main change is a better hue/color discriminability and more perceivable/distinguishable colors. So, the method shown in this video is NOT simulating a "real" functional form of tetrachromacy! I'll make a video in the future that uses a better method to render and simulate tetrachromatic colors. *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. In the future I'll try to make the video resolution better and prevent the lag at high resolutions. *My statement:* This is a very special video to me. Before, I've always just talked about impossible colors, but the people who couldn't cross their eyes properly couldn't experience them in my videos (or anywhere on KZbin or any platform). But now, if you own a VR headset, you can enjoy these impossible colors for yourself! :D *Color in Color [PC/VR]:* The image/video quality you see in this is not representative of my app "Color in Color", with which you can see 140 trillion (and more) unqiue color experiences and impossible colors. My app has a better resolution, quality and frame rate. *Impossible Colors on KZbin:* This is the first video on KZbin (and maybe ever) that implements impossible colors into our color vision like this, at least to my knowledge. If you want to use this concept then please link me and my channel or contact me via my twitter or Discord (linked in the video description). *Some notes* to the impossible tetrachromatic colors you see: - Just like the impossible trichromatic colors in this video the impossible blue/green (left eye blue + right eye green) and green/blue (right eye blue + left eye green) seem like they're the same color. And individually you couldn't tell the difference between these two impossible colors. But directly side by side they still create a visible edge and difference. So while they look the same individually, they're very different in context. That's why I didn't substitute one of those impossible colors for a more unique combination. - In later videos I'll show you how to customize this enhanced trichromatic vision via the creation of a more customized color spectrum, and not just a recycling of the spectral rainbow colors. But for this video I just wanted to introduce you to this impossible enhanced trichromatic vision. Feel free to comment your own experiences of impossible colors and enhanced trichromacy, especially concerning this video.

[@zromitsman]

INCREDIBLE! I showed this to a friend of mine who always jokes about my tetrachromacy (in a good way) on his headseat. His reaction was nothing short of a spectacle. I can't describe how satisfying it is that someone finally understands what you're trying to say after almost decades of misunderstandings. I don't have a recording of his reaction but, to summarize, it's almost a perfect replica of the Danny DeVito "Oh my god - I get it" meme. I struggle to find the words, but I can't thank you enough. You have not only single-handedly created the tools to make the impossible possible, but you have also lifted a massive weight off of my (and hopefully many others') shoulders. Thank you.

[@ooqui]

That's what I was hoping for. The cool thing is that once my app *Color in Color* is out then everyone (preferably and mainly with two eyes) can have their own custom color vision, including and certainly not limited to tetrachromacy. Tetrachromacy is just the bare minimum. The next few videos will be about pentachromacy and hexachromacy (which are a lot more amazing and colorful), and even more incredible color visions, which not even you have seen. If I can blow the mind of a tetrachromat with *Color and Color* and my videos, then that definitely speaks for the impact and appeal of my app. Thank you for your kind words and interesting comment! :D Maybe in the far future I'll be able to make a *Color in Color* app version for (type yellow) tetrachromats; if there's enough demand that is. But I'd need a special VR headset with 4 pixel colors (RGYB) for this to work.

[@zromitsman]

@@ooqui you have me on edge for your next video, that's for sure :D

[@ooqui]

@@zromitsman Well, the next video will probably be about how to fix color vision deficiencies like deuteranopia, tritanopia and protanopia and functionally turn them into a form of trichromatic vision by using this method of implementing impossible colors into our color vision. But the videos after that will be about the even higher color vision dimensionalities.

[@zromitsman]

@@ooqui oh my god YEAH, the concept of using this on the colorblind completely flew over my head!

[@Nikki.Penguin]

I don't have a VR headset 😢

[@ooqui]

There are only three methods of experiencing impossible colors (so far). 1. Crossing your eyes to overlap the two different colors. This method works well, but it strains the eyes. And not all people can cross their eyes. 2. Temporal Colors: Using time as an additional dimension to alternate between two different colors isn't the same experience as seeing impossible colors binocularly. But it's similar enough to at least be comparable. But quickly changing colors can be quite disorienting if you're not used to it. 3. Using a VR headset to do the eye crossing for you. With this method you'll admittedly need a VR headset, but once you have a VR headset, then impossible colors and color visions like the simulated tetrachromacy I've shown in my video, become quite easy to render and experience. So unfortunately, you'll need a VR headset to really experience these impossible colors and this simulated tetrachromacy.

[@TheCreationKing]

What I'd really be interested in is if the vr app would apply the filters while in other games! I'd be curious to see to see what some places, like worlds in vrchat for example, look like with impossible colors.

[@TheCreationKing]

I haven't actually watched these videos in vr yet, so I'm still missing out on the experience as of now. But I like the information I'm hearing. Will edit upon rewatch

[@ooqui]

My application "Color in Color" applies the filters to what's visible on the desktop. As the desktop is always 2D, everything you look at will also be 2D. So you can play games like Minecraft or watch KZbin videos normally, with all the selected impossible colors. For "Color in Color" to work in 3D with VR games, however, I would need to be able to access information from those games which aren't (easily) available to me. Most VR games aren't designed for others to be able to access the VR camera data. Most are not even setup in a way where there are two distinct cameras which send different signals to the two eyes (at least in the way I need it for my app). A VR game would likely have to be changed and its cameras' data made available so that "Color in Color" could work in 3D. So, it's not impossible, but currently VR games aren't built to easily allow for the creation of impossible colors. However, If this somehow becomes possible in the future I'll 100% integrate a VR game functionality! :D

[@TheCreationKing]

@@ooqui I believe it may be possible with steam vr overlay addons, since ovr toolkit can adjust screen brightness and colors. Though I don't know that those settings can apply to the left or right display only

[@TheCreationKing]

Finally watched the video in vr (not many options to watch on index so I had to use a quest) It was both more and less jarring than I assumed. I went from not being able to differentiate color, to swapping between the two, to only seeing out of one eye, to seeing a lot of blue. Then finally, I started seeing yellowish, orangish, and pinkish blue

[@ooqui]

@@TheCreationKing Initially, impossible color vision is something alien to your brain. Your brain can see impossible colors due to binocular redundancy, but it has to learn how to see them properly. Because your brain likes to have both eyes' colors the same, because it's used to that, it tries to somehow "correct" or "neglect" impossible colors, by e.g. shifting the focus to only one of your eyes, or creating visual artifacts like colored spots instead of a uniform impossible color experience. Impossible color vision is an investment. The more you look at impossible colors, the more your brain will learn to understand them; especially in the right context. You can't and shouldn't expect to magically see and understand impossible colors on your first try, as they're something new to your brain. If you'd magically become a tetrachromat for a day you wouldn't really be able to tell colors apart correclty in that short amount of time also. Let time and neuroplasticity work for you. It takes time and practice to learn, understand, recognize and correctly identify all these impossible colors. And because there are literally 140+ trillion impossible colors − about 8 million times more colors than you can normally distinguish − this is a task even I, the one who's very likely seen the greatest amount of impossible colors in all of humanity, struggle to fully keep up with. I've looked at billions of impossible colors in numerous contexts and each day I'm seeing a new color in a new context I've never seen before. The impossible colors shown in this video are only a tiny − and I mean a really tiny − fraction of all the possible impossible colors, in an even tinier color and situational context. This video shows maybe 0.00001% of all the possible impossible color combinations, at most. For example, it doesn't show impossible color combinations of differing saturation and luminance levels, which add two whole new dimensions of impossible color combinations and crazy new impossible colors. (I'll show those in another video in the future.) Just treat impossible color vision like any other skill. The more you do it, naturally, the better you'll become at it. Immerse yourself in impossible colors, learn their names, learn how they're constructed and perceived by your eyes and brain, how they influence you, and how they alter your understanding of the visual world, etc. The more you do that the more you'll understand the true potential of human (impossible) color vision.

[@MasterChief-nw6dz]

This is Drake!! Gonna watch the video Yay!!

[@ooqui]

Enjoy the impossible made possible! :D

[@johannaabrahamsson2000]

I didnt get it. Do you need vr glasses to get the wow effect?

[@ooqui]

Yes, you need VR glasses (on which you can open the KZbin app) for this effect to work. This is because the VR glasses have two screens which each can display the same image but in different colors. I've encoded this video in a way that one eye sees colors normally, but the other eye sees enhanced colors; thus creating impossible color combinations. In my future videos I'll also implement an additional screen which displays the binocular impossible color combinations as temporal colors (= timed based alternating colors) for the people who don't have a VR headset yet. It's definitely not the same "wow" effect as with binocular impossible color combinations, but it nonetheless shows you the difference between the two eyes' color visions well enough.

[@MatheAPro]

Tnks a lot for it, when my video card arrive I'm gonna enter at discord channel ❤🎉❤ plz do more in VR videos 😊 I don't have money enough to buy a vr glasses so I use a Android phone with a vr adapter to see it ❤😊

[@ooqui]

I'm not sure if this video works as intented with the setup you've mentioned in your comment, but normally you need two screens (i.e. the two separate screens from your regular VR headset) for it work. I'll educate myself about VR adaptors for mobile phones in the future. And I'll definitely make more VR videos! :D