How many gamers here actually wear glasses?

[SUBMAN1]

Just kind of curious since I got to thinking that I don't know any people that game a lot that actually need to wear glasses. Weird eh? I was always told that if I spend too much time playing video games growing up, that I would need glasses early. Seems that never happened like they said. Anyway, after reading this article, it is starting to make sense.

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Intense video gaming actually strengthens your eyesight

by M.T.Whitney

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(NewsTarget) Playing video games with high levels of action, like Halo and Unreal Tournament, can improve your eyesight, researchers at the University of Rochester have found.

The improvement was remarkable: among a study group of non-gamers that were told to play action video games for a few hours a day, they improved their eyesight by 20 percent within one month.


The important factor was the type of gaming you do: Pac Man, Zelda and Mario aren't going to improve your eyesight; searching for fast-moving targets onscreen in a gaming environment with dark and light areas, like in Halo, will.


This is because action gaming has a different effect on our brains, Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences, said in the study.


"Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," she said. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."


To see if there was any improvement, the researchers used test subjects who rarely play video games. The study had one set of players play Tetris and the other set play Unreal Tournament, a shooting game.


In comparative eye chart tests, only the players who played Unreal showed visual improvement. The shoot-'em-up players also could correctly identify objects faster than the Tetris players.


"These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life," Bavelier said in a press release.


The research suggests that action gaming can help improve the eyesight (http://www.newstarget.com/eyesight.html) of people with visual defects.


The team is now going to research further into how the brain responds to other visual stimuli. They will be using a massive 360-degree enclosed gaming environment for their next study.


The Unreal/Tetris study will appear in next week in the journal Psychological Science.

[Konovalov]

Only for driving really at night if anything.

[Dowly]

Nope, no glasses here. Been playing pretty much all my short life and my eyesight is superb. ;)

[STEED]

Nope, no glasses here. Been playing pretty much all my short life and my eyesight is superb. ;)

You wait to you get to my age :eek: it's all down hill. :rotfl:

As the poll I Don't vote on public polls. ;)

[Camaero]

I have very good eyesight.

[SUBMAN1]

Nope, no glasses here. Been playing pretty much all my short life and my eyesight is superb. ;)
You wait to you get to my age :eek: it's all down hill. :rotfl:

As the poll I Don't vote on public polls. ;)Only if you let it go downhill! :p An active mind removes the threat of Alzheimers, and active eyes strengthen your eyesight. You need to get out there and get on a BF or UT online game. Like any other muscle in your body, you can re-strengthen it back to where you may not need glasses anymore!

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[STEED]

Give me a good book to read any day, better for the brain. :p :lol: ;)

[STEED]

Are feck alright I will vote. :doh:

There you go.

[NiclDoe]

I play games and i have glasses since i was in sixth grade. pretty weird and im in eighth and my vision seems to be inproving

[StdDev]

What poll?
how do you vote?
I didnt see no pole......

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[AVGWarhawk]

Been wearing glass since the 5th grade. I have played games over 13 years and well, the eye sight has not improved. I guess I got the placebo display screen:rotfl:

[SUBMAN1]

Been wearing glass since the 5th grade. I have played games over 13 years and well, the eye sight has not improved. I guess I got the placebo display screen:rotfl:Nah! Been playig only slow moving sub games! Time to amp up with some UT! :D :up:

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[STEED]

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[Kaleun]

hi,

No 20-20 vision for me - i've had glasses from about the age of 15 - more than half my life!!

I don't blame computer games, but my mum said "fiddling" with myself will make me go blind, i think she may be right!!!!!!!

Kaleun

[Zayphod]

Take that, Jack Thompson. :rock:
BTW, been wearing them since the 4th grade.

Getting to the point where I have to look OVER them to see my watch.

[SUBMAN1]

I should include in that poll for the people that wear glasses, how many had a night light?

Read a while back that if you grew up as a child having a night light in your room that you are about 90% more likely to need glasses later on in life. The reason being - your eyes don't rest properly at night because of the light coming in constantly. They are never able to regenerate fully.

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[CCIP]

I have very good eyesight.

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I've noticed that it can go a little blurry sometimes, especially on a bad morning, but otherwise I'm still rated at 20/20 :p

[SUBMAN1]

I have very good eyesight.
x2

I've noticed that it can go a little blurry sometimes, especially on a bad morning, but otherwise I'm still rated at 20/20 :pThat is from sleep in your eyes! Actually, it's a film. Happens to everyone once in a while. It's not the Mk2 eyeball's fault.

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[Letum]

I messed up my eyes by reading books too close to my face.

It's a reall bugger.

[U49]

Perfect eyesight of a mole.... I'm a living ASDIC

:ping:

[Letum]

Perfect eyesight of a mole.... I'm a living ASDIC

:ping:

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[SUBMAN1]

Perfect eyesight of a mole.... I'm a living ASDIC

:ping:
http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/brail22.gifHey! No brail allowed on this board. That is an unfair advantage blind people have got on us! :D

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[HunterICX]

I have glasses but only have them on when watching something on the Television with subtitles.

[JSLTIGER]

Been blind as a bat for years...

My vision is something along the lines of 20/200. -4.25 diopters in the left eye, -5.75 in the right, not to mention some astigmatism.

[NiclDoe]

My friend has beyond perfect vision.:o

[Reaves]

Do sunglasses count?


;)

[baggygreen]

Perfect vision here.

thats handy:yep:

[AG124]

I've worn glasses since grade 5 (1995) - I can't imagine living without wearing them now.:o

[darius359au]

Had to get glasses when I joined the Army back in the 80's - Funnily enough I didn't get them till after I'd done my recruit training but I qualified as one of the best shooters in my platoon :o

[d@rk51d3]

Nope, never neede them.

[kiwi_2005]

Yes i'm short sighted. I can see close up good but not far distance every things a blurr without my glasses. Night is worse.

[Konovalov]

Nope, never neede them.

And why should you or anyone else on this forum. Don't we all use our advanced active and passive sonar arrays? :ping: :ping: Submarines don't have windows. :doh:

[JSLTIGER]

Nope, never neede them.
And why should you or anyone else on this forum. Don't we all use our advanced active and passive sonar arrays? :ping: :ping: Submarines don't have windows. :doh:

Gotta read the display, don't we?

[seafarer]

Worn glasses since I was 13. For the past few years, I've even had to move to progressive multi-focal lenses (and I have some astigmatism).

Honestly, I think the study is bunk. It's measuring how the brain deals with visual signals, not actual visual acuity. In my case, my eyeballs' lenses are deformed - I can "train" the muscles that shape the lens all I want, but it ain't going to correct the fubar'd lenses themselves.

And we've known about training the brain for better, more rapid, more accurate image interpretation for a long time. Studies on people who interpret aerial photo's experince this all the time - such as wildlife researchers who count animals from aerial photo's.

The researchers need to do a controlled study of people who wear, and those who do not wear corrective lenses. I bet they see the same improvements in the eyeglass wearers too.

[antikristuseke]

No glasses here, perfect 20/20

[StdDev]

Perfect eyesight of a mole.... I'm a living ASDIC

:ping:
http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/brail22.gifHey! No brail allowed on this board. That is an unfair advantage blind people have got on us! :D

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I agree... them lucky bastiges get all the breaks!!!!

[danlisa]

I now have to wear glasses (as of 3 days ago). Mainly for PC/TV viweing. Seems my left eye is weaker than my right and as a result, I was getting severe headaches which would wake me up at night due to over straining my right eye.

According to my optician, 15hrs a day, 18 inchs from a monitor for the last 10+ years has taken it's toll.:cry:

[Captain Nemo]

I've worn spectacles since about 1966, from a very young age I might add, nothing to do with playing computer games which didn't come out for about another 20 years.

Nemo

[Torpedo Fodder]

No glasses here, and according to my last eye test my vision is 20/20.

[danlisa]

No glasses here, and according to my last eye test my vision is 20/20.

I'm not sure about this 20/20 vision.:-?

My recent eye exam says that I have better than 20/20 vision and yet I still need glasses. If I recall, the optician shows you 3 sequences of letters, with each sequence getting smaller. The first set is 20/20 vision, the next gets smaller & then the last set smaller still. Now, If I can read the smallest sequence, what does thay mean?:hmm:

What is the actual definition of 20/20 vision?

[seafarer]

No glasses here, and according to my last eye test my vision is 20/20.

I'm not sure about this 20/20 vision.:-?

My recent eye exam says that I have better than 20/20 vision and yet I still need glasses. If I recall, the optician shows you 3 sequences of letters, with each sequence getting smaller. The first set is 20/20 vision, the next gets smaller & then the last set smaller still. Now, If I can read the smallest sequence, what does thay mean?:hmm:

What is the actual definition of 20/20 vision?


In 20/20 - the first number refers to the distance, in feet, from the standard chart. The lower number means that a line of letters or symbols of a small specific size can be read from 20 feet away (whatever that "standard" line is on the chart).

If you had, say, 20/100 vision, it means that you must be as close as 20 feet to see what a person with normal vision can see at 100 feet.

20/20 is just normal - it's really not spectacular. And with my glasses, my vision is better then 20/20, or better then average. And even with 20/20, you may need glasses for specific visual range (far sighted or near sightedness, astigmatism, so forth).

[The WosMan]

I only wear glasses at night when driving. My left eye is out of wack but my right eye works fine. Didn't always used to be that way but when I hit 25 it was getting real hard to drive at night as my right eye was getting tired of working overtime for the left. I don't need them in daylight or at work while I sit in front of 2 LCDs all day. As a matter of fact, wearing my glasses while sitting in front of the TV or a monitor actually hurts my eyes.

[Zayphod]

Been blind as a bat for years...

My vision is something along the lines of 20/200. -4.25 diopters in the left eye, -5.75 in the right, not to mention some astigmatism.


I think I have you beat: Mine was 20/300. I can see perfectly....about about 6 inches from my face, and that's about it. :stare:

[XabbaRus]

I have glasses but only have them on when watching something on the Television with subtitles.

and for playing IL-2 online....I think he needs binoculars then...:rotfl:

Don't hit me Hunter.

[Jimbuna]

Only for reading small print http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img524/1727/richardvt8.gif

[XabbaRus]

I need them all the time since the age of 7 though I didn't wear them until 13 as I was a brat. Wish I had now.

[U49]

Perfect eyesight of a mole.... I'm a living ASDIC

:ping:

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No asdic reflection , except a plain long target....
What do we do with targets ????

:rotfl:
Sorry - me not able - to read - wrong alphabet

[Sailor Steve]

Since I was 10. Horrible eyesight. Bifocals now.

[bookworm_020]

I were a contact lens in one eye, but only when driving. otherwise I can get by.

[Zantham]

Glasses since ~5 years old. -8.5 diopter in right eye, -5.25 in left eye. Dunno what that is in x/20 vision, but I cannot make out the top letter of the eye chart until it is 2 or 3 feet away. With contact lenses I see 20/20, and for some odd reason I can see 'extremely' well in the dark.
Didnt begin using computers regularly till I was in my teens, never ever watched TV after my family got rid of it when I was around 6. For last 12 years I probably stare at a computer screen 12 hours a day (for work and gaming); my vision has neither improved nor gotten worse in that time.

[blue3golf]

I only wear them to see far off stuff, mostly to read at distances.

[nikimcbee]

Bah, I just has laser eye surgery:dead: in my left eye. I do not want to do it again.

[Jimbuna]

Bah, I just has laser eye surgery:dead: in my left eye. I do not want to do it again.

Quite costly here in the UK :yep: