Improve Your Eyesight With Shooters
I’m not talking about shooters of tequila or bourbon. Trust me, they have an adverse effect on your vision. There is a new study that focuses on extended playing of first person shooters may improve your eyesight. Apparently it can help you distinguish various objects in busy environments.
Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester took a group of 10 non-gaming college students and subjected them to 30 hours of first person shooter training. She noticed that after some time their visual accuracy increased when compared to 10 non-gaming students who did not go through the same training.
When you break it down, it makes total sense. Think about when you play a particular shooter over time, you get better at locating hiding enemies. Many visual problems have to do with the size of one’s eye, but other defects are neural and can be strengthened over time.
Bevelier comments on fast-paced shooters:
These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life.
Bevelier concludes video games can be used as rehabilitation for certain visual problems such as a lazy eye or the effects of aging. So don’t feel disheartened if you spend countless hours playing Lost Planet on Xbox Live with your friends, and you feel like you are doing nothing with your life. At least you are giving your peepers a good workout.
Study: Playing Video Games Improves Eyesight [Live Science]
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Posted to Video Games on 16 March 2007
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The studies are true, due to all my fps practice, I can now see your soul, and it is beautiful and delicate, like a flower with cholera.