Who wears "PC Glasses" while gaming?

I've noticed gaming glasses have very woolly claims usually making statement A: blue light is bad, statement B: you can block blue light, then implying that wearing the glasses will be good for you without legally exposing themselves to proving it.

You'd think major opticians would be all over another coating to upsell you but no they're not on board: https://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/glasses-lenses/glasses-screen-protection-options
 
I do not, and they seem like snake oil to me.

In my experience all issues I've known people have with eyestrain have been caused by having the brightness level too high for prolonged use.

I'm looking at a monitor for maybe 14 hours a day and don't get eyestrain - I always calibrate my monitor to 120 cd/m² brightness level, on my current one that's brightness at 32%, my previous one that was only 19%

Both a friend of mine and a relative had issues with eyestrain which went away once I persuaded them to seriously reduce the brightness level they keep their monitors at.

Yes, it doesn't look as good when the brightness is lower - high brightness just looks better, better contrast, more vibrant etc... but it also wrecks your eyes. Imagine staring at a lightbulb, constantly, for many hours every day - that's what people are doing when using a monitor at the kind of 300+ cd/m² brightness levels they often come out of the box at.
 
I'd put as much veracity in the pseudoscience behind them as homeopathy, proper eyewear and some general common sense should probably prevail here.
 
You mean blue light glasses? I asked the opticians about them and he claimed they do nothing at all.

If you get eye strain you need better lighting and/or better monitor imo.
 
Install Flux and you'll get the same sort of effect with blue light in the evenings and won't cost you anything.
 
I find more of an issue with brightness than colour. Brightness is supposed to match your environment and invariably it doesn't.
 
Cause of the good weather, I've arrived at work a few times recently and looked at the screen with my polarized sunglasses on and thought "oh, that looks really good". To the point, I had considered looking for the lightest tint of polarized glasses.
 
I don't have gaming glasses but I do wear prescription glasses and have just had a new prescription for computer use. My reading glasses were too close for my screen and my distance glasses were too far so I needed something in between. At my 2 yearly eye check I mentioned this to the optician and he did a additional prescription for me. Got home, went online to Select Specs and ordered a new pair of glasses and opted for the blue screen tint. A week later they arrived and the prescription was spot on. The bluescreen tint seems to ease eye strain as well, not bad for £35 delivered.
 
If you're straining your eyes then get an eye test. Simple.

I did just this and was shocked to find out I needed actual prescription glasses for screen use. Also helps when watching TV too.
 
I have 3 sets of glasses. One set for distance that I hardly use or need but the distance prescription sun glasses are great. Second set for reading. Third set for screen use and are calibrated to help me focus at the 1m distance the screen is at, these are amazing. Go see an optician , get your eyes checked and ask for options. They will be only too happy to sell you different sets of glasses.

I tried varifocals and they gave me terrbile headaches so had to go for the multi glasses set up.
 
i use my distance glasses for gaming, cost a fiver from lowcostglasses, work a treat,glasses wont make me a better player for sure,lol
 
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