Black Mirror, eat your heart out.
Researchers have apparently just figured out how to make people see a color completely new to humanity.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley conducted the research,publishedFriday in Science Advances.
Olo apparently looks like blue-green, but with the saturation turned way up.© 9gifts via Shutterstock
Our retinas contain certain photoreceptive cells, known as cones, that allow us to see color.
They tested the Oz system on five human volunteers with normal vision.
Once they activated M-only cones, the volunteers reported seeing a blue-green color of unprecedented saturation.
The researchers have coined this new color olo.
And the researchers are hopeful that Oz can have all sorts of potential uses down the line.
All that sounds wonderful.
But personally, Im hoping that Ill be able to see olo and otherworldly colors for myself one day.
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