Study: Playing Video Games Improves Eyesight

[Ibn Abi Ahmed]

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Playing "Gears of War," "Lost Planet," "Halo (:D)" and other action video games that involve firing guns can improve your eyesight, new research claims.

Sedate games like "Tetris" don't work.

People who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person action video games showed a substantial increase in their ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, compared to non-gamers given the same test, said Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester.

Most aspects of vision have to do with the size of one's eye and the thickness and shape of the cornea and lens. But some visual defects are neural in nature, said Bevelier, author of the new study on vision and video games published in the journal Psychological Science.

First-person action games helped study subjects improve their spatial resolution, meaning their ability to clearly see small, closely packed together objects, such as letters, she said. Game-playing actually changes the way our brains process visual information.

"These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she said, in a prepared statement. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."

The finding suggests that playing first-person action video games could be a useful rehabilitation therapy for people with certain vision problems, she said, such as amblyopia (or lazy eye) and the simple effects of aging.

Another study has showed that playing certain virtual reality games that involved physical motion helped stroke victims improve their ability to walk eventually.

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[IbnAbdulHakim]

i just decided to stop playin what you tryna do to me bro !!!

[Pk_#2]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:'(

Time wasting.

Peace! :)

[Erundur]

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Video Games are great for people who want to be Surgeons, Kudos bro. :thumbs_up

Suck it all you parents interest groups :p

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[IbnAbdulHakim]

:salamext:


Suck it all you parents interest groups :p

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LOOOOL ;D ;D

[Pk_#2]

:salamext:
Video Games are great for people who want to be Surgeons, Kudos bro. :thumbs_up

Suck it all you parents interest groups :p

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:X :omg:

[IbnAbdulHakim]

i dont believe that

might that be because we are true gamers :p?


It might be true :)

[Hemoo]

well if what you say is true then we must make a sight improving cd full of this usefull games :-) :D :D :D

and we can sell it with a high price and make every cd improves an eye

one for the left eye and the other for the right eye

What do you think brother ????? :D

['Abd al-Baari]

I thought playing video games worsens eyesight because of the strain on the eyes

Alhamdulillah i've been proven wrong
Jazakllah for sharing

[SATalha]

Heavy more lost planet 4 me...or maybe not my 36is givin me probz.

[peacechaser]

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Jazakallah for sharing the profits of playing game bro. Allah was not created everything with no purpose. But still, in my opinion a game can pull us into an addiction, which can make us lost ourselves about worldly things.

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[Strzelecki]

I don't play games as much as I used to...I unno, kinda grew out of them. I will on occasion, though. I guess.

Good find. :)

[aamirsaab]

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Playing Video Games Improves Eyesight

[Malaikah]

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^LOL!

Anyway, that is misleading, it didn't improve eye sight... it improved their ability to notice things differently.:rollseyes

Don't throw out those glasses just yet...

[Al-Zaara]

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Like most things, playing those video games has its positive sides but also negative ones. For example addiction which leads to leaving studies, wasting precious time, etc.

[syilla]

:uuh: :uuh:

don't tell that to my 4 year old son. (my hubby already bough him a gameboy :uuh:)

they should re-study.

[Muezzin]

My younger brother wears glasses and is excellent at FPS's, whereas I suck at them.

However, I don't need glasses. Go figure.

[MuHiTH]

FPS are great, but it can be time consuming, so we must not get addicted to it

[E'jaazi]

Why not spend that time reading the Qu'ran? Just a reminder for us all.

[Hayate]

Asa

Well, actually it completely depends on how seriously you take the game. If you become so involved that your character's life becomes your own life in your mind, then your brain will adapt to make sure you (your character) survives.

Then again, there are better ways to improve your eyesight (as well as other things): If you do a physical activity such as martial arts or juggling or whatever, then your eye sight will improve further as well as at a further rate.

I'm no expert, but I'm just speaking from my personal experiences.

[Opethian]

This is a nice finding, but obviously you cannot oversimplify this study as "gaming is good for your eyes". The test subjects started out as non-gamers, and only played for 30 hours. Consequently, it is only a short term effect they measured, and other studies have shown intensive gaming (or anything else involving staring at a screen for long periods) to damage eyesight on long term periods. However, that doesn't change the fact that many games are good for the development such as eye-hand coordination, problem solving skills, language, reflexes, etc... It's just a matter of taking these studies into context, and of course, doing things like gaming in moderation.

[Opethian]

Btw, I am an avid gamer :p. Also, I am new to this board, can anyone tell me how to edit my posts, because I screwed up a sentence near the end of my previous post.

[aamirsaab]

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.....Also, I am new to this board, can anyone tell me how to edit my posts, because I screwed up a sentence near the end of my previous post.

click me

[Opethian]

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click me

Thanks for the info! :D

[NobleMuslimUK]

I play gears of war a lot. Anyone wanna share their online ID's?

[vpb]

pffffffff too many philosofies, improves eyesight, but then it destroys eyesights.