FPS Games Sharpen Vision

Now...who said gaming is all bad? Recent research found out that gaming actually improves what they called, our eyes' contrast sensitivity. Quoted from the technical website, it is the ability to notice tiny changes in shades of grey against a uniform background, which degrades with age.

Crysis: Warhead

However, the only games that bring improvements are fast action games like first person shooters (FPSs) or the like. Not real time strategy (RTS), not role playing games (RPG)!

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

FPS games rely on your hand-eye coordination and ultra-fast reflexes to mow down enemies. This type of games usually involve rapid changing graphics and environments which our eyes have to adapt. Games to try would be Call of Duty 4, TF2, Crysis, Unreal Tournament, Quake IV, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War (not that rapid tho, its built for console noobs) and not forgetting Counter Strike series (Source preferred, personally).

Team Fortress 2

Man, those are my favorite games. FPS freak! Now I know why there's people getting slower (response) towards graphical changes around them. This could be the cause. Your sensitivity has degraded! LMAO. Fear not, there's cure! Play more FPS games will not only boost your hand-eye coordination, your reflexes and now, also your eyesight! That's another +1 benefit of FPS gaming.

Game on!

Quote:

... "What we found is that even without this correction you can help your brain make better use of whatever information is received from your retina,” she said.

For the study, Bavelier and three colleagues conducted two sets of experiments. In the first, they compared the contrast sensitivity of hard-core action game players with video game aficionados of the same age who preferred less rapid-fire fare.

In action games, players typically target and shoot figures that pop up suddenly on a computer screen.

The researchers found that the action buffs were 50 percent more efficient at detecting contrast.

But there remained a chicken-or-egg question: had their vision been improved by playing, or did they become action game players because they had better than average contrast sensitivity to start with?

To find out, Bavelier asked two groups of non-action video game players to undergo 50 hours of training. One played a popular point-and-shoot game called Call of Duty, and the other played a game that offered a rich visual experience, but one bereft of action.

”We found that the people in the first group improved by 43 percent, and the other group not at all,” she said.

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-ps: Pictures posted are mine without watermarks. Lazzz...hey, I need to keep up with my eyesight trainings!