Gaming glasses

[AndrewZorn]

I BASICALLY NEED THESE

http://steelseries.com/us/products/other/steelseries-scope

[godly_music]

So these have the same effect as reducing the brightness on your monitor to a sane level and changing the whites to a warmer tone. Well, it convinced the dude in the picture.

[WhiteRice]

$100? You could buy a keyboard...

[Earth Worm Jim]

Or you could go the option and get your eyes checked.

[guilleguillaume]

This glasses are made by Gunnar Optics and then rebranded by Steelseries which sure means more expensive price.

You can see their place and read all the technical explanation and a lot of freak people wearing Gunnar glasses too.

Maybe they will help when using too much hours the computer but anyways I wouldn't buy anything without talking before with an ophthalmologist and get the true answer about my eyes getting tired and that glasses going to help.

[Arc'xer]

This just shows that monitors lack calibration and some will game with very high gamma and brightness just to see the dark areas of a map.

Either the game isn't properly made to show these areas or it's the monitors fault.

[microsoft windows]

Pay $5 and get a pair of reading glasses at Wal-Mart.

[Ekaros]

Hmm, so do they have high-diffraction lenses? And up to where, I would need something around -6 or -7...

[microsoft windows]

$100? You could buy a keyboard...

I could buy ten.

[microsoft windows]

This just shows that monitors lack calibration and some will game with very high gamma and brightness just to see the dark areas of a map.

Either the game isn't properly made to show these areas or it's the monitors fault.

You don't need crazy gamma or brightness to see dark areas well. All you need is a CRT.

[AndrewZorn]

[Lanx]

as someone said these are rebranded gunnar optics. You can find regular gunnar optics at a better price at
buy.com
http://www.buy.com/retail/usersearchresults.asp?querytype=home&qu=gunnar&qxt=home&display=col

newegg has em too if you want to pay more but like newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=gunnar&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20

idk if your serious or not, but i'll share my experiences... nausia
idk if others had this problem but felt like i was having motion sickness. I do wear glasses for nearsighted so i did both, had my glasses on and off. I was a real trooper, i spent 4 hours with these glasses (over my regular glasses on and off) b4 i really felt like i was motion sick and going to vomit.

Usually i cannot play fps for longer than 1hr, cuz i have that issue (i think it started when i was 28, don't know what was doing the quake, whatever for the longest time, stillplayed mmo's and was the best tho).
but i wasn't even playing games, i was just trying to do work.you know word/excel/ web browse. Nope these glasses gave me motion sickness like 3x as fast and as furious as when i go fps. (related note, i can do halo and all that on xbox on my tv just fine for 20hrs straight, i guess it's just the distance i'm sitting at and the size of the tv, if it's on my bedroom 32 or my living room 100in projector i'm fine, just when i sit right in front of computer and play fps i get weezy after 2hrs)
it might be me, but that's my experience if you were really serious about these glasses. (i didn't even have time to get over the "everything looks like it's covered in pee" too busy fighting off vomit)

[woody]

Everything labeled with "As seen on TV" makes me impulse-buy.

[Mazora]

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Wwwoooooww OMG

[bpiphany]

Well, for driving or shooting or whatever under natural light yellow tinted glasses makes sense. Shorter wavelenght light (bluer) scatters more on dust and vapor. Filtering out this scattered light can remove some of the haze and give clearer vision. This is also why people with eye cataract often are seen wearing red glasses. The lens of the eye becomes clouded and the red light let through by the glasses is the light that ends up most correctly at the retina. With a computer screen though I guess it should be possible to acheive the same result from color adjusting.

[PAINKILLER]

Do they have gamma ray and fast neutron filters? Would be nice with my CRT.

[nmd]

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

Same thing. I've tried the Gunnars and liked them, tried to get a Rx version but the customer service at Gunnars just ended up ignoring me once I told them my zip code... guess there's no one in my area that works with them or they just didn't care.

It's much less eye strain if you use a computer many hours during the day.

edit: My eye sight isn't THAT bad, it's just once I looked away from the computer I couldn't read things across the room so it was a pita to keep switching glasses.

[AndrewZorn]

I'm astounded half of you actually know the details of these, or even have used them.  I need to start selling mouse bungees, Bawls, and gaming gloves in the Classifieds.

[nmd]

I'm astounded half of you actually know the details of these, or even have used them.  I need to start selling mouse bungees, Bawls, and gaming gloves in the Classifieds.

I tried Bawls when it was a big sponsor for the CPL. No thanks.

Do you know any place in the US to buy a mouse bungee? I'm using a Razer Armadillo for cord management atm and while it gets the job done, with a stiff braided cord the cord can still hit/move things around on the desk, would rather use a bungee.

[Soarer]

Could buy these, and lots to go in them :-D



Then everything looks great... even those who shouldn't ;-)

[Arc'xer]

I tried Bawls when it was a big sponsor for the CPL. No thanks.

Do you know any place in the US to buy a mouse bungee? I'm using a Razer Armadillo for cord management atm and while it gets the job done, with a stiff braided cord the cord can still hit/move things around on the desk, would rather use a bungee.

http://www2.razerzone.com/bungee

Seems like either they were bought out or are now working with them. As long as it remains a fairly good price, I'll buy it despite the branding and whatnot. The mouse bungee that was sold seems to have been around 10-15 dollars so not bad. But not sure what razer is gonna do with them price wise.

Been wanting a mouse bungee myself due to the same issue plus some have mentioned just how great the bungee saying it's almost like using a wireless mouse. Mouse cord has been a pain in the ass for me as well especially when using a lower sensitivity, it gets stuck everywhere or it resists due to the weight and drag of the cord.

[db_Iodine]

I had too Google about mouse bungees. I had never even heard of such things before. I don't really understand how those are even supposed to help you.. I mean it seems to actually limit the movement of the mouse.

[nmd]

Yeah the Razer bungee deal went through months ago but there's been no word since.

With the older mice that were rubber coated cables they were extremely flexible... didn't need them then. But with more mice using braided cords now, the ****ing things are too stiff and offer almost no extra durability(I've never had a mouse cable get damaged through normal use or otherwise.) It depends on how cluttered your desk is which admittedly mine isn't the cleanest desk at the moment.

They don't help really, but if you use a mouse with a stiff cord especially you don't have to worry about for example pushing a paper off your desk... or more likely the annoying as hell feeling that when the cord hits something and your movement is restricted momentarily, it's aggravating.

Takes your wired mouse and makes it feel like it's wireless I guess is the best way of explaining it.

[db_Iodine]

Roccat product naming is funny. They're all in Finnish.. So the guy is using Roccat Hard mouse, Roccat War mousepad and Roccat Helper mouse bungee. I still don't quite see the benefit of that thing. I've never had any problem with my mouse cable. If I have a wired mouse, I just hook the wire through my monitors stand, which does some what similar job as those mouse bungees. The difference is there isn't any ugly ass glowing three legged... umm thing in front of your monitor. Also good monitors these days have powered usb hubs these days so that  can't be a reason to buy one of those.

[AndrewZorn]

As laughable as all these products are, yes, the new braided cables on mice are so stupid.

Even still, I've found that adequate slack on the line gives me next to no trouble.

[vegaman]

As laughable as all these products are, yes, the new braided cables on mice are so stupid.

Even still, I've found that adequate slack on the line gives me next to no trouble.

Yeah, I've worn out plenty of mice from heavy gaming and just using the computer a lot. But I've never worn out one of the standard rubber coated cables, you'd have to really abuse it to do that. And for the people that do wear out cables, I've seen them wear out braided cables anyway.

And I pretty much do the same, the mouse cable goes through the cable management hole at the back of my desk, but I've got plenty of slack sitting on top of my desk.

[microsoft windows]

I never have had issues with mouse cables.

[Lanx]

Yeah the Razer bungee deal went through months ago but there's been no word since.

With the older mice that were rubber coated cables they were extremely flexible... didn't need them then. But with more mice using braided cords now, the ****ing things are too stiff and offer almost no extra durability(I've never had a mouse cable get damaged through normal use or otherwise.) It depends on how cluttered your desk is which admittedly mine isn't the cleanest desk at the moment.

They don't help really, but if you use a mouse with a stiff cord especially you don't have to worry about for example pushing a paper off your desk... or more likely the annoying as hell feeling that when the cord hits something and your movement is restricted momentarily, it's aggravating.

Takes your wired mouse and makes it feel like it's wireless I guess is the best way of explaining it.

[db_Iodine]

It's damn ugly making the cables go higher than the desk level like that.

[Azuremen]

Yeah the Razer bungee deal went through months ago but there's been no word since.

Takes your wired mouse and makes it feel like it's wireless I guess is the best way of explaining it.

Just build from K'nex. That is what I do when I need random doodads like that.

As for these glasses, I think they are a bit silly. If you are having eyestrain from your monitor it is just setup poorly. Kind of amazing how so many monitors are way, way too bright.

[db_Iodine]

Most monitors have their brightness set up at 50-100% by default. I found that my monitors produce the best colors at 10-15% brightness.

[chuckading]

I'll get some when they come in red lenses and blue frames.

[Azuremen]

Most monitors have their brightness set up at 50-100% by default. I found that my monitors produce the best colors at 10-15% brightness.

I think this partially depends on the lighting in the room. I always have okay lighting in my room, so I adjust the monitors so they don't seem notably brighter than the area behind them. Tends to reduce eyestrain. Fastest way to get eyestrain, in my experience, is a bright monitor in a dark room.

[woody]

Yes, monitor brightness should match the environmental.
Calibrate, if possible.

[db_Iodine]

I've always calibrated my monitors with most lights off, because that's how I mostly use my computer.

[PAINKILLER]

I've been hanging around the OCN Mechanical Keyboard Guide too long.  At 1000000 posts you're bound to see EVERYTHING come up.

Today I've go' the Rocca'...T

Is tha' no' the coolest thing you ever seen!

It ain't not the coolest thing I ever saw.

Bloody hell!

LOL funny brit.

And in a fighter plane game I can still pwn the **** outta pretty much anyone using nothing but a 8 years old monitor and a 24 years old keyboard. No joystick, I sold that bull****! Not that I'm particularly proud of wasting my time in games.
About the glasses - apparently what they do is lower the color temperature. Displays are actually often sold at 7500K or even 9300K which immediately looks nice when you compare it to displays set at a lower temperature in a shop, but it's as artificial as watching arch welding with bare eyes. As the site nmd posted says, natural light can be between 5000K and 7000K during the day and I guess even lower at dusk. So if you don't know what might be causing you problems you may first wanna try adjusting to whatever you want in the wide range (it is usually at least 5000K to 11000K) that the monitor and graphics card provide before buying a product that will bring an unknown fixed reduction. What f.lux does, is to vary the temperature throughout the day to produce natural temperature for the current part of the day, and that is supposed to let your body know when you need to go to sleep... Which is why I'm writing this now. I'm going to try it soon. If anything can achieve natural results, that's gotta be it. Or someone make a natural backlight LCD monitor mod.

[EverythingIBM]

Most monitors have their brightness set up at 50-100% by default. I found that my monitors produce the best colors at 10-15% brightness.

Oh yeah, stock settings are super bright on any monitor (except on some of the older thinkpads: they have special "dull/matte" screens for people who stare at the screen for a long time doing business stuff).

OMG SWEDISH NERD WEARING SUPER-COOL GLASSES, I NEED TO BUY THEM NOW.

[victheslik]

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[isp]

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

uhhh, yeah it just set my display to 3500k...while I admit it is pleasant on the eyes colors go out the window ((

cool concept though, i think it would be a lot better if it worked in conjunction with hardware to measure the ambient light in the room...

[db_Iodine]

3500k... ugh. It's pretty much impossible to calibrate a monitor without the calibration hardware anyway.

[nmd]

uhhh, yeah it just set my display to 3500k...while I admit it is pleasant on the eyes colors go out the window ((

cool concept though, i think it would be a lot better if it worked in conjunction with hardware to measure the ambient light in the room...

Yeah, that's why I didn't end up using that too long. It does automatically adjust the color depending on time of day/year though which is kind of neat. Should utilize a webcam for ambient light or something crazy to adjust it better - aka: use magic.

[Senor_Cartmenez]

****'s getting ridiculous..... WAIT

make that retarded :yo:

[microsoft windows]

I set my computer monitors to 6500k.

[a_fluffy_kitten]

I set my computer monitors to 6500k.

Is that the color temp or how much they weigh?

[microsoft windows]

Probably both.

[Earth Worm Jim]

Mouse bungees WTF!
I never even know there was a need for them.
Never had a problem with a trackball.

[db_Iodine]

Anything that is advertised for the gaming community is going to sell.

[EverythingIBM]

I set my computer monitors to 6500k.

I just tweak whatever settings on a particular monitor until I'm satistfied (Since all monitors have different settings thus giving different colours unless tweaked).

[Senor_Cartmenez]

Anything that is advertised for the gaming community is going to sell.

as long as it is backed up by a mainstream corp like Logitech, Razer or Roccat and as long as they back up the product with bogus stats and a whole bunch of marketing bull****...

I sometimes feel ashamed to call myself a gamer these days.

But the entrepreneur in me wants to massively abuse this idiocracy and sell folks gamer-chairs and **** like that

[EverythingIBM]

as long as it is backed up by a mainstream corp like Logitech, Razer or Roccat and as long as they back up the product with bogus stats and a whole bunch of marketing bull****...

I sometimes feel ashamed to call myself a gamer these days.

But the entrepreneur in me wants to massively abuse this idiocracy and sell folks gamer-chairs and **** like that

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That's a great screensaver! I think I know what windows they're using.