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Michael Johnson

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

If you did that, I guess the question becomes, do you see a square of color? Or is your brain just confused about what you see there? Do you see a black hole? Or, you know, what is it? And I thought, well, you know, I guess you would see a color. And I wanted to know, hey, does that look like, what does it look like? Does it look like the greenest green you've ever seen?

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

And I want to call out James Fong and Hannah Doyle amongst the many collaborators. But really, they stand out as the people that did the hard work had the perseverance and the smarts, the talent to really chase this down. It was so challenging. But the fruits of the labor is so valuable because it is really something that's never been done before. So there's no charted course to it.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

And I want to call out James Fong and Hannah Doyle amongst the many collaborators. But really, they stand out as the people that did the hard work had the perseverance and the smarts, the talent to really chase this down. It was so challenging. But the fruits of the labor is so valuable because it is really something that's never been done before. So there's no charted course to it.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

And I want to call out James Fong and Hannah Doyle amongst the many collaborators. But really, they stand out as the people that did the hard work had the perseverance and the smarts, the talent to really chase this down. It was so challenging. But the fruits of the labor is so valuable because it is really something that's never been done before. So there's no charted course to it.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

I love that question. To be clear, animals don't see the world in color anything like a human does, right? Nothing like a human does. Animal eyes are vastly different than ours. And even our closest cousins on the evolutionary tree, their genes for those photopigments that we talked about earlier, they're not the same as for us.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

I love that question. To be clear, animals don't see the world in color anything like a human does, right? Nothing like a human does. Animal eyes are vastly different than ours. And even our closest cousins on the evolutionary tree, their genes for those photopigments that we talked about earlier, they're not the same as for us.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

I love that question. To be clear, animals don't see the world in color anything like a human does, right? Nothing like a human does. Animal eyes are vastly different than ours. And even our closest cousins on the evolutionary tree, their genes for those photopigments that we talked about earlier, they're not the same as for us.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

They don't have the same number as us, and they don't have the same genetic sequence. So its functional effect in the world for detecting light is totally different. We know that. Like hummingbirds, people have probably heard or may have heard, some species can see in UV light. We're blind to UV light as one example, but every animal sees it completely differently.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

They don't have the same number as us, and they don't have the same genetic sequence. So its functional effect in the world for detecting light is totally different. We know that. Like hummingbirds, people have probably heard or may have heard, some species can see in UV light. We're blind to UV light as one example, but every animal sees it completely differently.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

They don't have the same number as us, and they don't have the same genetic sequence. So its functional effect in the world for detecting light is totally different. We know that. Like hummingbirds, people have probably heard or may have heard, some species can see in UV light. We're blind to UV light as one example, but every animal sees it completely differently.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

Another way you think about it is that, you know, we all look at a TV. We're like, wow, that color is pretty good. When your dog or your cat is sitting there looking at that TV, they do not see that and be like, wow, that kind of looks like, you know, that photo that we all took together outside the house this morning. It just, the colors don't look right. Okay.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

Another way you think about it is that, you know, we all look at a TV. We're like, wow, that color is pretty good. When your dog or your cat is sitting there looking at that TV, they do not see that and be like, wow, that kind of looks like, you know, that photo that we all took together outside the house this morning. It just, the colors don't look right. Okay.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

Another way you think about it is that, you know, we all look at a TV. We're like, wow, that color is pretty good. When your dog or your cat is sitting there looking at that TV, they do not see that and be like, wow, that kind of looks like, you know, that photo that we all took together outside the house this morning. It just, the colors don't look right. Okay.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

He might be following, but the colors won't look the same.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

He might be following, but the colors won't look the same.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

He might be following, but the colors won't look the same.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

So back to this question about, you know, could there be, you know, an animal that could see Olo? I received that question first. Oh, what a great question. But it's actually that there's no way for that to happen because the experiential nature of the color for different species is just so vastly different.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

So back to this question about, you know, could there be, you know, an animal that could see Olo? I received that question first. Oh, what a great question. But it's actually that there's no way for that to happen because the experiential nature of the color for different species is just so vastly different.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

So back to this question about, you know, could there be, you know, an animal that could see Olo? I received that question first. Oh, what a great question. But it's actually that there's no way for that to happen because the experiential nature of the color for different species is just so vastly different.

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Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

Yeah.