Playing Violent Video Games Improves Your Eyesight

[e²Studios]

A little break from the wars, Frag Time!

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

Sedate games like "Tetris" don't work.

The study involved 10 male college students who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person shooter action video games.

They showed a substantial increase in their ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space compared to 10 non-gamers given the same test, said Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259184,00.html

Ed

[Dagless]

Faux News?

Either way, I'm off to fill my 1 hour a day addiction of Half Life 2 Deathmatch :D

[PlaceofDis]

increases your reflexes too. i believe it.

[devilot]

But look at the sample size, ten male, college students? I might pay more attention if the sample was a bit more diverse. :o

[sb58]

lies. i play games like that all the time, and if anything, my visions getting worse.

[2nyRiggz]

I can see the reflexes being sharpen but eyesight....I'm still wearing glasses for goodness sake and I've been playing games since the days of stickman.

Maybe I should play without my glasses?


Bless

[PlaceofDis]

lies. i play games like that all the time, and if anything, my visions getting worse.

I can see the reflexes being sharpen but eyesight....I'm still wearing glasses for goodness sake and I've been playing games since the days of stickman.




Bless

its not saying that your actual vision will improve. its saying that your ability to discern objects in a mess/fast moving environment is improved.

[2nyRiggz]

Ok cool but still a no for me...I guess thats why I suck at most FPS.



Bless

[sb58]

its not saying that your actual vision will improve. its saying that your ability to discern objects in a mess/fast moving environment is improved.

oh well then i guess its working :P

[JackAxe]

This news is old, it came out last month. :p

Faux News. *LOL* :D

They even skewed this article. BASTARDS!!! The game doesn't need to be violent, just a high action game. And to be more anal, "Untreal Tournament" was used for the study, not those thumb-twiddling additions. :p

I can see why Tetris wouldn't do it, since it requires you become focused on one area and visually things really don't change much.

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[greatdevourer]

I think I have this article (this time from The Times) being used as a bookmark somewhere when it was published a month or 2 ago...

Yup, found it :) The reason why the sample is so small is because they were struggling to find "clean" subjects who didn't spend hours playing games anyway

[MacRumorUser]

Basically Teenage boys can rest assured knowing that one joystick waggle can improve their eyesight, whilst the other damages it ;)

[TheGimp]

Basically Teenage boys can rest assured knowing that one joystick waggle can improve their eyesight, whilst the other damages it ;)


LOL.

Does it help college men discriminate better from a distance as well, as from up on a high tower looking down at all the ants and picking out the best ones?

[TheGimp]

Basically Teenage boys can rest assured knowing that one joystick waggle can improve their eyesight, whilst the other damages it ;)


LOL.

Does it help college men discriminate better from a distance as well, as from up on a high tower looking down at all the ants and picking out the best ones to which to teach a lesson?

[ddrueckhammer]

Basically Teenage boys can rest assured knowing that one joystick waggle can improve their eyesight, whilst the other damages it ;)

So you are saying you will go blind from playing with your Wii?

[JackAxe]

Basically Teenage boys can rest assured knowing that one joystick waggle can improve their eyesight, whilst the other damages it ;)

:D

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