Colorblind Man Sees Sunset For First Time, And It’s ‘F*cking Cool’

Watching someone watching something on a YouTube video sounds like a sign that humanity has officially jumped the shark. He tried out the glasses at sunset at Whitehurst Beach, in Virginia, and is visibly overwhelmed in the video above.

But for all their sophisticated technology and use of perceptual psychophysics, the glasses left Aaron Williams-Mele at a loss for words.

Aaron Williams-Mele, who is colorblind, posted an emotional video of himself seeing the sunset for the first time while wearing colorblindness-correcting glasses. It’s fair to say it looked to be an emotional experience for him.

Watch the emotional moment above.

According to Business Insider, Williams-Mele used EnChroma lenses to see the sunset, which use mathematical formulas to boost color vision.

CNET writer Jeff Sparkman, who is also colorblind, wrote about what it’s like to see the world through the EnChroma special lenses in a feature published earlier this month.

He then goes off to hunt for something bright red. “The whole world opens up”.