Gunnar Phantom Unboxing & Steelseries Scope Eyewear Evaluation Results Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,398 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to a video that's actually going to serve two purposes at the same time
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one of the purposes is that I'm going to unbox some look at this it came with a
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little note on it please unbox uh it's from one of my co-workers who's going to Bringing be bringing in the actual
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Gunner branded eyewear uh the ones that I'm wearing are steel series Scopes by
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Gunner so very similar and this video will also be serving the purpose of
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being the announcement of my results from using the steel series scope I wear
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for 2 weeks continuously not to say I was wearing them 24/7 but to say that I
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was wearing them every time I was using a computer to evaluate whether they
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actually do reduce eye fatigue and I'm
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not going to tell you yet I'm going to wait until after I've already unboxed
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this particular skew so what do we got here this is the Gunner Phantom this is
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gloss Onyx it comes with the Amber am all large small e big R lenses and it
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claims many of the same uh advantages of
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the scope ones that I'm using now so the lens tint improves contrast for greater
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accuracy and efficiency okay lens geometry enhances detail for sharper
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clearer vision okay proprietary lens Coatings help reduce glare and improve
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visual Focus lens material enables Precision Optics for truest image and
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headset compatible temples provides Long Haul Comfort which I have tried by the
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way and does work because the ones I have once again they have that nice low
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profile um thing going on on the side of your head
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so makes it so you can wear headphones with them so here we've got Mason
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neighbor cob I'm not actually much into the Pro Gamer scene but I'm sure he's
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really cool uh okay inside here we find
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yep something about the lens material something about the coating something about the tints and something about the
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geometry uh something they haven't mentioned on the box at all is that with
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at least the ones that I'm wearing now um the shape of the lens is supposed to
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help reduce the amount of moisture that evaporates away from your eyes and if my
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optometrist is to be believed and I have no reason why my optometrist wouldn't be
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believed uh one of the biggest causes of eye fatigue when people are using
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computers is not actually the screen in and of itself but the fact that they
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forget to Blink and particularly when you're gaming that can be a huge issue
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because you're very very focused you're looking at things for an extended period
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of time and you you kind of go like this
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and you forget to Blink and your eyes dry out and that's really really bad for
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them which is not to say that I think that these should necessarily be
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marketed gaming glasses because I personally didn't play a single game
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while I was wearing them for the last 2 weeks however and here I'll finally give
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you guys the conclusion I still declare them to be incredibly useful because I
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run into much the same situation even when I'm working on a spreadsheet where
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I'm focused on this screen and I'm looking at that one I'm looking at that one and I'm forgetting to Blink so they
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should be called computer user glasses not necessarily gaming glasses and I
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think that would more accurately describe what they're good for now the
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Scopes I didn't find particularly comfortable although I'm getting used to
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them now because uh this this Ridge due
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to the thinness of this shape which enables the headset compatibility is a
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little bit sharp on my ears although once I adjusted the nose piece you can
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see that they fit me a lot better than they did in my original unboxing video
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so let's go back to the ones that we actually have here today so these are the Phantoms uh this is the digital
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performance iare guarantee remember oh it is guaranteed so you actually can um
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return them I think it's I think it's 90 days although don't quote me on that
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guys you better double check before you go and buy some uh if you buy them
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directly from Gunner though you can say oh these aren't working for me and you can return them I suspect they have that
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policy because they do work and uh I'm I'm actually really impressed my eyes
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are much less tired in general I actually went out and got prescription
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glasses because I thought the reason my eyes were getting tired was because they
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were working too hard all the time and I have a very mild prescription I went okay well maybe that's it that wasn't it
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actually using these instead of my prescription glasses at work worked much better for me in reducing eye fatigue oh
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these ones are actually quite a bit more comfortable than the Scopes so they've
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got a plastic layer on the thin metal
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piece here that's a little bit uh smoother and a little bit softer and
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they've got the ha Major League Gaming little logo here that's kind of cool
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very similar overall build so you can see the uh the hinges are built in much
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the same way although the lenses are a different
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shape on these two slightly and then the
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nose pieces are very easy to adjust they're just on little uh flexible metal
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pieces although these ones fit me a little bit better out of the box than the other ones did although they come
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here I don't know if you can see this but they come a little bit further away from my head than the other ones do so
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you should really try them out in the store or wherever else you're shopping for them find the ones that do fit you I
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can say though if you're a graphic designer or something like that I mean
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look how yellow they are you're not can you see that yeah you're not going to
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want to use these for any kind of serious you know color important work
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but if you're working on spreadsheets you're just browsing the web you're playing games
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two thumbs out of two I think I have only two thumbs why don't we say like
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four thumbs out of two hands although these are pinkies but you get what I
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mean so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the I was about to call them
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steel series of the Gunner Phantom glasses and also watching my evaluation
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of the steel series scope glasses which both use these same yellow tinted lenses
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in order to reduce eye fatigue while you are using your computer don't forget to
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subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos so slick totally burned me
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because remember I was complaining about the comfort that I was having with these these come off and you can actually
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replace them so uh that would have definitely improved matters for myself
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and I've been stubbornly wearing them for two weeks without doing that another thing I also didn't mention is that you
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can get Gunners in prescriptions uh with prescription lenses if you order them
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online or there are actually participating retailers that do that as well and last but not least he pointed
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out to me that he has seen at least a demo at PS um although we couldn't find
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it on the site that they have lenses that are not I guess not tinted quite as
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yellow as this and are for graphic design so that the color accuracy is not
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affected so while I wouldn't recommend the Amber lens for that kind of a usage
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model uh I think everything else I said still stands and once again then don't
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forget to subscribe