For years, the old wives tale went that if you watch too much T.V, your eyes will go cross eyed. Then, it became that if you sat too close to the T.V., you eyes will go cross eyed. Then the wives said that if you play video games, it will ruin your eyes and turn your brain into mush.
…Until now.
While the wave of ‘moving’ video games has had us excited (and entertained) for the last little while (like the Kinect, Wii, etc), there is one new game that may be legitimately good for your health.
Researchers and doctors in Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a game that’s designed to help children with lazy eye. Apparently, playing the game works the brain in a way that works the lazy eye harder, helping it to catch up to the other eye and improve vision overall.
But this game isn’t just like regular video games. The children wear a set of goggles and play the game for 1 hour a day for 10 days. The goggles feed a clearer image into the lens with the lazy eye, forcing it to even out with the stronger eye.
Lazy eye happens when the vision in one eye doesn’t develop properly. Typically, treatment includes children wearing an eye patch over their strong eye to try to work the weaker eye a bit more.
The Tetris-style game has seen pretty good results so far! According to the Scottish researchers, the children were beginning to have better sight after just 10 days. The game developers are now working on other new games to help other eye problems.
Now all we need are a pair of headphones that are good for our eardrums and we’re good to go.