Color Blind Brothers Hug And Cry As They See Color For The First Time [Video]

When James first placed the glasses on, everyone had to stop as the emotion overwhelmed him. He grabbed his brother and hugged him, sobbing, in a moment of sibling solidarity. His brother comforted him, despite not having tried on the glasses yet.

"It's so bright!"

"We've had some incredible reactions from some of our users," Julie Trinh of EnChroma told Inside Edition, but she was quick to point out that not everyone has such an immediate result. The brain has to adjust to what it's seeing and may not be able to interpret the data correctly straight away, so for some new users, it takes a little longer for their eyes to adjust, and they see the change more gradually.

Trinh said the company was delighted by the brother's reactions, and they've sent them another pair of EnChroma glasses so the boys can experience their new world of color together.

An astounding one in 12 men are born with some sort of color-blindness, and about one in 200 women. The type the brothers have is the most common, and means that they can correctly identify just five crayons from a standard box of 24. The glasses work by filtering out specific light that makes colors appear much more saturated. They don't work for every type of color blindness, but they work for about 80 percent of people with the condition.

Some ophthalmologists have expressed skepticism for the company's claims. Dr. Sam Markowitz of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society and Toronto Western Hospital says "I would prefer to see validated color testing," and that plenty of products claiming to fix color blindness have come and gone, and what he really wants to see is some hard evidence that the glasses increase the amount of colors the user can see.

EnChroma has announced that it's expanding into a color-correction contact lens range as well.

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