To start with, let's go through some messages important for your eye's health.
### We all know excessive exposure to the lighting of the monitors can lead to eye fatigue. But why?
1. Continuous and dramatic changes of lighting
Depends on the content of the apps and media, the lighting of the monitors could change continuously and dramatically. And remember, the pupils of your eyes would have to constrict and dilate continuously in order to adapt the changing conditions. These excessive workloads would thus lead to eye fatigue.
2. Excessive lighting
Excessive lighting, especially the white content of the display, can increase the workload of the sensor cells in the eyes, specifically the photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in the retina, resulting in eye fatigue.
### But aren't we used to black on white in daily life?
Let's compare the luminance level of different sighting sources. Under typical office lighting (around 500 lux):
- Completely black display: close to 0 cd/m^2^
- Completely white display: around 250 cd/m^2^
- White paper: approximately 10-20 cd/m^2^
Therefore, when you are staring at the white content of a display, you could be receiving more than 10-20 times of lighting than you normally does when looking at a white paper. If you find it unbelievable, consider this, your display is inheritably black, and it is all the lighting contributes to make it looks "white"...
### We have dark themes and blue-light filters, wouldn't that be enough?
For any experienced PC users, these scenario might seem familiar:
- You work mostly on dark apps but sometimes unavoidably need to work on a white app.
- You open a dark app and it gives you a white flash/flicker welcome. (e.g. Edge and many other apps)
- You are watching some YouTube video with ideal and comfortable brightness setting but the video suddenly turns into some bright white contents.
- You're surfing a web page in dark mode. You're scrolling down and reading comfortably until you come to some part where a large bright image is shown.
- You've already turned on the blue-light filter but only realize it is not a one-for-all solution that fits among all the white and black contents.
- To make it worse, you find yourself encountering the above issues when working in a dark environment...
### The real solution
Instead of stressing your eyes to endure it, or manually keep changing the PC's brightness level, you now have a better solution: Mirage, the world's first instantaneous content adaptive brightness control app! **Optimizing your screen's brightness and color temperature** against any content changes in **a frame-based level,** Mirage is able to provide the best protection for your eyes whenever you are working on PC, surfing the internet, watching video and more!
YouTube Demo:
https://youtu.be/YlS3qdKWmxg
Official Web Site:
https://futur.gs