Study Shows Gaming Improves Vision, Unless You Play The Sims
Saturday 4 April 2009 @ 11:26 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 5 Comments
While those of us unlucky enough to ever have played with the Virtual Boy, we know that Videogames can’t just give you a killer headache, but can also screw with your eyesight (and your tolerance to the color red), however to the rest of you it turns out games can improve your vision.
A study by the University of Rochester on the effects of gaming on eyesight revealed that playing First Person Shooter games gives your eyesight a killer workout. Constantly keeping up with an ever-changing environment and trying to hit that guy carrying the flag with your rocket launcher from across the map trains your eye for better and faster spatial recognition. The results of this are better night vision, improved reading speed and even faster healing after eye surgery. However, study subjects who played more passive games like The Sims, didn’t get any of these benefits.
Games can’t get you shooting lasers out of your eyes just yet, but if you’d played that Virtual Boy a couple of years more… it might just have happen.
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
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Oh man, its funny I should read this when I did. I just got back from playing The Force Unleashed (PSP version) for four straight hours, and have a killer headache.
It is the specific game’s fault, the camera angles make it seem that you are looking into a fisheye lens when you run.
Virtual Boy = Good idea in a wrong time
Even if this helps your reaction sight, this is no way helps your eyesight. I’m pretty sure mine gets worse just staring at a computer/TV for hours on end.
Also, wtf is on that guys face?
Those are some video goggles. Basically low resolution screens in front of your eyes.
And that is what makes it so ironic.
I had a pair of something very similar I hooked up to my 3DO. Playing Road Rash and Samurai Warriors with those things on really made me feel like I WAS in the game…for reals.