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Posts Tagged ‘Lazy Eye’

Video gaming has attracted some favourable press over the past couple of years. It seems this often maligned and misunderstood social pastime may have some redeeming qualities after all. And we’re not just talking about games to make you smarter. How about improving your vision, providing relief from pain and even saving your life?

We’ve all heard about the popularity of Nintendo’s brain training games, if not experienced them firsthand. Basically, these games help improve your mental agility, firstly testing you to see how smart you are, and then continually testing you with sets of exercises to monitor you for signs of improvement. I’m not sure how I feel about these types of games. At least when playing a more traditional video game you can blame failure on a bad control system, or an unforgiving AI. Flunk these and you’re basically a dummy.

So how about claims of video games that can improve impaired vision? The boffins from the Virtual Reality Applications Research Team (VRART) at the University of Nottingham, England, have come up with a video game that cures ‘Lazy Eye’.

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