Can glasses that make you see like mantis shrimp be created?
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According to [this research published in Nature](https://www.nature.com/news/mantis-shrimp-s-super-colour-vision-debunked-1.14578), they don’t appear to discriminate between colors that are very close together. This would imply that though they have more types of photoreceptors, they don’t actually perceive much more color-wise than humans do. Someone else here mentioned polarized light also, which you can to some extent do with certain types of glasses.
So for the most part, yes, but also, we don’t fully understand how they process light. So there may be particular details to their perception that we simply don’t understand, making it unclear if it would be possible. Since we don’t have shrimp brains, it seems unlikely to ever get the full experience, though at a basic level we kind of already see like them.
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