gaming improves your vision by as much as 20%

[Ghouler]

In short:
"According to a University of Rochester study, people who played action games for a few hours each day improved their vision by as much as 20%."
here is more:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/02/0...sityofrochester_unreal_vision_improve/
What more can you see with 20% increase in your vision, any ideas?

 

[pontifex]

does this negate the don't sit too close to the tv problem?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Ghouler
What more can you see with 20% increase in your vision, any ideas?

After one month, the Unreal Tournament players showed marked improvement in spatial vision tests and could easily discern figures in crowded charts.

😛

- M4H

 

[CityShrimp]

The Tetris players had no improvement in vision.

I guess my childhood has been a waste 🙁

 

[Smartazz]

I wonder if this works with Battlefield 2.

 

[Ghouler]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
I wonder if this works with Battlefield 2.

Sure, it does. After one month of intensive gaming you are able to spot the gunmen immediately. Applies to rough areas only thou ;p

 

[Pocatello]

I've been playing games since I can remember, started with Duck Hunt, yet I'm blind without my glasses...

 

[Aikouka]

This study is just purely inane. I commented about it on DailyTech and I'll do it here too. Their "tests" show nothing more than an increased awareness NOT an improved level of vision. Just because you can make something out in a picture... that means nothing unless you say he can make it out now because the picture's no longer as blurry (nearsighted corrections). One test involved remarking whether or not a T was upside down in a picture... 'scuse me, but how does that relate to vision correction?

Jeez, I'm not even an eyedoctorologist and I'm not that retarded.

 

[musha shugyo]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
This study is just purely inane. I commented about it on DailyTech and I'll do it here too. Their "tests" show nothing more than an increased awareness NOT an improved level of vision. Just because you can make something out in a picture... that means nothing unless you say he can make it out now because the picture's no longer as blurry (nearsighted corrections). One test involved remarking whether or not a T was upside down in a picture... 'scuse me, but how does that relate to vision correction?

Jeez, I'm not even an eyedoctorologist and I'm not that retarded.

Visual recognition is a part of vision. Vision is simply sensing (detecting and interpreting what is detected) with the eyes, and recognition is part of processing that sensation. I don't see where they claimed it corrected myopia or hyperopia.

 

[fLum0x]

Originally posted by: Ghouler
In short:
"According to a University of Rochester study, people who played action games for a few hours each day improved their vision by as much as 20%."
here is more:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/02/0...sityofrochester_unreal_vision_improve/
What more can you see with 20% increase in your vision, any ideas?

This made me LOL before i even clicked on the link.

 

[clamum]

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[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: pontifex
does this negate the don't sit too close to the tv problem?

no i dont think so

from playing games i feel i can detect small changes and pick out fine details rather quick and rather well, you know noticing a change and reacting to it, or picking out patterns quickly and noticing details easily.

but, having been 2 feet away from a screen for a lot my time...... some of these screens being CRT's i know for sure my eye sight in general is down.

focusing intently at close range has slowly erroded my capability to focus at distance. i need glasses to drive and glasses to read what the hells going on in lectures. i didnt need glasses untill i was about 18.

 

[Red Dawn]

What would really be news is if Gaming improved ones social skills.

 

[musha shugyo]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
What would really be news is if Gaming improved ones social skills.

That's what alcohol is for.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: musha shugyo
Visual recognition is a part of vision. Vision is simply sensing (detecting and interpreting what is detected) with the eyes, and recognition is part of processing that sensation. I don't see where they claimed it corrected myopia or hyperopia.

The connotation for "vision" adheres to the eye's ability to refract light onto the optics in the rear. Hence why "vision correction" is synonymous with such devices as contacts lenses or procedures like lasik (all improving the angles at which your eyes project the light).

Also, by your "defense" against the term Vision, that would make their report all too encompassing. It's akin to Sony releasing a new stereo for a car and brashly saying "we've improved cars!" Regardless, the study should specifically state "reaction time" as that's what they're truly looking at not everything involved with the concepts of vision.

 

[musha shugyo]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
The connotation for "vision" adheres to the eye's ability to refract light onto the optics in the rear. Hence why "vision correction" is synonymous with such devices as contacts lenses or procedures like lasik (all improving the angles at which your eyes project the light).

Also, by your "defense" against the term Vision, that would make their report all too encompassing. It's akin to Sony releasing a new stereo for a car and brashly saying "we've improved cars!" Regardless, the study should specifically state "reaction time" as that's what they're truly looking at not everything involved with the concepts of vision.

It's a psychological study, thus geared toward other psychologists, so you should look at the psychological definition of vision. Also, they specifically state in the article that it changes the brain pathway responsible for visual processing.