Independent Product Review of Blue Shark Optics and the "competition".
The review that was recently completed and published, at www.wikio.com was an independent comparative assessment of Blue Shark
Optics poker eyewear and the products of two other companies: Royal Poker and Poker Armor. The reviewer compared the products of
the three companies and made several conclusions. Here are some excerpts:
Royal Poker: "Lack of quality in the one frame style they do offer. The frame is a molded plastic with no enhancements, other than
the company logo on the temple. A simple padding around the nose would have gone a long way to increase the comfort also".
"While the lenses do increase the light to the user, this increase comes with one huge setback: The wearer’s eyes can be clearly
seen by the other players. Royal Eyewear advertises that their lens coating provides 98% shielding of your eyes, but this turned out
to be in the amount of the eye the frame covers, and not the actual visibility of the eye itself from across the table.
To be perfectly honest, I do not rate these glasses any higher than the cheap glasses you can get from Target or WalMart, and Royal
charges $79".
Poker Armor: "...the quality simply wasn’t there to support a $58 price tag."
"... our review panel of all three gave a thumbs down to the product based on one resounding reason: They simply didn’t protect
the eyes from view. The lens was too small, and did not extend to the sides of the eyes. And quite honestly, you can see right
through them from across the table. The light enhancement was decent enough, but not enough to warrant recommending the
glasses".
Blue Shark Optics: "The lens on the Blue Shark glasses all have what the company calls Crystalion-3 coating. This coating not only
increased light to the user, but was virtually impenetrable from the outside. You simply could not detect eye movement when looking at
the wearer".
"While the Blue Shark Optics prices were higher than the rest, the quality and effectiveness of their product certainly warranted the
price difference. Their frames are made of high quality acetate and not cheap plastic".
"So in the end, the three reviewers were all unanimous in their choice of Blue Shark Optics as their preference. The slight increase in
cost was more than offset by the comfort, quality, and multi-functionality of the product. The bottom line is that Blue Shark Optics deliver
what they promise, with a lens that, unlike the others, completely hides the eyes. And in the end, as we were comparing them for
poker play, the others weren’t even close".
Choose Wisely!
The Blue Shark Optics Team
