According to a study, playing action video games may actually prove to be beneficial to adults with eyesight problems. After a video-game training program, people noticed an improvement in their contrast sensitivity. This ability can greatly impact people with amblyopia (lazy eye) and those who have problems driving at night.
During a nine-week course, two groups played video games for 50 hours. Action games "Call of Duty 2" and "Unreal Tournament 2004" was played by one group. Non-action games like "Sims 2" was played by another group. The action games showed increased enhanced contrast sensitivity ranging from 43 percent of 50 percent.
I think that video-game training could be a fun and inexpensive way of correcting a vision problem but there are also of negative outcomes that are associated with playing video games especially the action packed ones that contains multiple scenes of violence.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10206764-235.html?tag=mncol
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If this study is true then I should have 10 x 10 vision haha! I agree that video games drastically improve hand eye coordination and muscle agility.
ReplyDeleteCall of Duty rocks! Haha. Well it used to anyway.
ReplyDeleteI stare at computers all day long and I have terrible vision without contacts. Maybe I should go back to playing Resident Evil in my spare time.