An eye clinic in India found that amblyopia, or "lazy eye," could be corrected in older children through videogames. At the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology this week, Dr. Somen Ghosh will share his work from his study and its results. A preview: he says there that a third of the children were able to make significant vision gains.
The year-long study of 100 participants age 10 through 18 had good results -- about 60 percent showed some vision improvement. This goes directly against the prevailing wisdom, which says that once children hit school age, amblyopia will be difficult or impossible to correct. One of the study's four test groups played videogames for at least one hour a day using only the weaker eye. One participant, 16-year old Saurav Sen, was pleased with the results:
"Playing the shooting games while using just my weaker eye was hard at first, but after a few months I could win all game levels easily,” said Sen. “I’m very happy that I stuck with the program. My vision has improved a lot, so that I now have no trouble studying or taking exams. My tennis game also improved, and of course I’m now a pro PC gamer."
Bitch, you ain't no pro. But I'm glad about your eye.
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9:20 AM on 10.24.2011 | 
I say we combine the best of both worlds. Give fighter pilots Quake Live accounts, and give Quake Live pros amphetamines. It'll either create a breed of human with reflexes so fast that they come to rule the planet using fighter jets controlled by Quake Live, or trickle down as the ultimate lazy eye fighting method.
Ive always said this, future wars will be fought by gamers.
it's just exactly the same as putting a patch over a child's eye and telling them to do what they do for a day.
There is a project currently going on in the UK which is trying to help people with Lazy Eyes by making both eyes work together via video games.
Jon Purdy of Bradford University is using video games and 3D technology, so that a child who plays a game see's half the game with one eye (say the background and levels on a 2D platformer) and in the other eye they see the information, (like the character and Health etc)
That's a great thought but it won't work war must have loss of life not mechish robots or drones controled by fat nerds 10000 miles away gettiing upset cuz they didn't get a killstreak of sorts.
@(the story)
Duh I thought this was already public fact I've seen the same story over and over some little boy where's an eye patch and plays pokemon
Good point
On topic: this is something I rly want to look into now.
Arrrgh... you've brought back some memories of an awful point in my life... a time that was deeply buried, for good reason!
Still... better to play video games with an eye patch than to have to wear one all the time! (and hopefully those kids are careful riding their bikes!)
This just made my day
The left eye was burning the handling all the stress while that right eye was just being a lazy turd probably.
Odd that such a thing is even possible though, didn't think that would be possible to do...might have to invest in an eye patch when I play games from now on. And Dale is jealous he sucks at shooters.