Gaming Computers Improve Eyesight

Gaming Computers Improve Eyesight
By Kirk Jensen

Playing such first person shooter games, like F.E.A.R., Halo, Gears of War or other action shooter the involve using a gun have been tested to improve one depth perception.

Sedate games (games that claim and cause a person to focus) such as board games do not work to help the depth perception in this case.

The Study

University of Rochester professor conducts a study with 60 people where 30 people whom started out as non gamers received thirty hours of training playing the first person gaming computers.

So what the professor concluded was that playing the first person gaming computers improved what is know as spatial resolution meaning the ability to see very small object in a large area like a letter. So playing these gaming computers changed the way the brain processed visual information.

These types of gaming computers push the visual system of the brain to its limit, causing it to adapt to new situations, which carries over to actual life.

The study also suggested that playing these first person gaming computers could help to rehabilitate people with certain visual problems such as lazy eye and simple effects of aging.So according to these studies it may be possible who have visual problems to play these first person gaming computers to build their depth perception and spatial resolution.