HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS TO
SPECIALIZED VISION ISSUES
by Denis Langlois
DURING USER TRIALS FOR ENCHROMA LENSES,
around them as they try out the glasses.
CO-FOUNDER DON MCPHERSON WOULD
EnChroma lenses are among the latest high-tech eyewear
available for people with specialized vision issues.
Companies have also designed products for low vision, a lazy
eye and other problems.
ACCOMPANY PEOPLE WITH COLOUR BLINDNESS
AS THEY WORE THE SPECIALIZED GLASSES
OUTSIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
The company's chief scientist recalls some “jaw-dropping
moments” as the wearers would stroll along the streets
of Berkeley, California, and stop to marvel at the vibrant
colours of flowers, the many shades of green in trees, the
subtle textures of plants andthe much-brighter blue sky.
“I would always gets those hair standing up on the back of
my neck moments and I thought, yes, this is why I'm
doing this,” he said in a telephone interview. “It was a pretty
moving experience.”
It's been several years since those testing-phase days and
three years since EnChroma launched its colour-