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Today, SteelSeries and GUNNAR Optiks introduced a new style of eyewear designed for competitive gamers, the SteelSeries Desmo. Featuring GUNNAR's i-AMP® lens technology, the new co-branded eyewear improves visual efficiency, endurance, and recovery during gaming sessions. To minimize peripheral distractions, the unique design is semi-rimless and provides an exceedingly broad visual field that allows the user to completely focus on the screen. The sleek frame features flexible twin-rail temples combined with adjustable nose pads to provide a lightweight, stable fit. As an added benefit for gamers, the ultra-slim temples rest comfortably beneath a gaming headset. The new style will be available in two color options - the Desmo Onyx and Desmo Snow (limited edition).

Together with the lightweight, durable design of the frames and comfort of the temples, the SteelSeries Desmo lenses are optimized to enhance a user's visual performance. GUNNAR eyewear enhances optical performance to give users an immediate, noticeable visual advantage using i-AMP lens technology. This optical lens innovation includes the following components:

*Tint: Specially formulated tint conditions and shifts the color spectrum to provide superior contrast, detail and resolution.

*Wrap/Shape: Features a highly wrapped, curved lens shape limiting air flow and maintaining moisture near the eyes, while providing a slight focusing power to help ease eye fatigue and enhancing detail for sharper, clearer vision.

*Material: A proprietary lens material that is optically pure, insuring the clearest image by eliminating distortion, impurities and haze.

*Coatings: An anti-reflective coating that reduces glare and other distractions caused by reflective light.
20/20 or Rx: Out of the box ready for 20/20 vision or used with corrective contact lenses, and also prescription compatible in partnership with Carl Zeiss Vision with optional coverage by VSP Insurance.

The SteelSeries Desmo Onyx is $99.99/ €99.99 MSRP and will be available online at both the SteelSeries and GUNNAR Web Shops.

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say what now?

 

[Not A Good Idea]

Microcenter has sold these types of glasses for over a year now. i tried on a pair but didnt really notice a difference.

 

[iWantACookie]

LOL

I would prefer throw my money in the toilet than buying this

 

[RallyMaster]

I have some Gunnar glasses and they do work for me in reducing eye-strain at work. They're not great for gaming though because I definitely can't tell colors apart as well when everything has a yellowish tint to it.

 

[HWI]

I actually wanna give these things a whirl. lol

 

[piskooooo]

They remind me of these:

 

[]\/[EGADET]-[]

Clearer than real life!

 

[dioxholster]

but why

 

[formula m]

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Originally Posted by dioxholster but why

Because some ****** needs to be "another" millionaire. So he will scour the earth of minerals to produce & market something unescessary!

 

[Mygaffer]

So ugly styling and the same price point as their glasses have always been... ok.

Anyway, if you work in an office with fluorescent lighting and work on an LCD screen 8 hours a day than these glasses can help reduce eye strain. Otherwise these are a total waste of money.

They change the way the picture looks and add a tint. I don't know about you but I prefer not to have the colors on my expensive S-IPS panel display tinted.

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Originally Posted by HWI I actually wanna give these things a whirl. lol

Fry's typically has display models. I was not impressed.

 

[Ecchi-BANZAII!!!]

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Originally Posted by Alatar Derp $99.99/ €99.99 say what now?

Indeed... They are as stupid as Steam.

Fixed it for them...
$99.99 / €72.68

 

[decimator]

I actually want to try a pair of Gunnars out. My eyes get strained after staring at a computer screen for an extended amount of time, so I think these will actually work for me (the computer glasses, not the gaming glasses).

FYI, the Vice President of Gunnar Optiks, Mark McNabb, built Oakley virtually from the ground up (took them from $20 million in annual revenue to over $150 million when he left). At the very least, the company is legit.

 

[frickfrock999]

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Originally Posted by decimator I actually want to try a pair of Gunnars out. My eyes get strained after staring at a computer screen for an extended amount of time, so I think these will actually work for me (the computer glasses, not the gaming glasses).

You may want to take a look at flu.x It dims your monitor automatically throughout the day so your eyes can adjust and not be strained.

It's wonderful and free.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

 

[decimator]

^ Thx for the info. I'll definitely check it out

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[trulsrohk]

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Originally Posted by piskooooo They remind me of these:

sigh...my dad just got a pair of those, even though he has a $200 pair of Maui Jim's.

He's a bit of an easy sell

 

[1337Xero]

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Originally Posted by frickfrock99 You may want to take a look at flu.x It dims your monitor automatically throughout the day so your eyes can adjust and not be strained. It's wonderful and free. http://stereopsis.com/flux/

I have a pair of Gunnars and they basically do the same (but I still like Gunnars better), thanks for the share, will definitely help me when I'm lazy to wear them haha. +rep

 

[X-Nine]

This is just about as good as the "mousing gloves" that Thermaltake makes. And by good, I mean crap. Waste of money. What's next, secret decoder rings? Diapers for gamers? Gamer shoes? Gamer hats (oh crap, TF2)?

 

[uncholowapo]

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Originally Posted by piskooooo They remind me of these:

We have those at the Office Depot we work at! Sad to say none have sold since I started working there earlier this year even with the $10 price tag

 

[rainmaker]

After I bought a 7H, got it replaced two times in 2 weeks, I'm never looking at anything SteelSeries.

 

[baws]

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Originally Posted by rainmaker After I bought a 7H, got it replaced two times in 2 weeks, I'm never looking at anything SteelSeries.

Learned the hard way to not buy a "gaming" headset.