Shock: Study Finds Gaming Improves Vision

Hah, that's legendary, but it's not exactly new news...
I'm glad they're not bashing us, but would find it quite humorous if in a continued article they refer to how many people each of the students 'killed' over the course of 9months and 50hours of gameplay in unreal tournament! haha

 

All the better to kill with.

 

Oh if only that were true :/

I used to have perfect 20-20 vision. Never thought I'd have to worry about anything regarding eyesight.
Then as soon as I hit 19, weird things started to happen, like not being able to focus beyond a certain distance far away. That distance has gotten shorter and shorter now, to the point where if I've been staring at a book or screen, then look up, everything is completely blurring for around 30 seconds.

Eye doctor says it's not such much "ruined" eyesight as "trained" or "evolved" eyesight. Since I spend most of my life staring at close objects, my eyes have simply adapted and evolved to suit that need. Apparently if I stopped staring at close objects and concentrated on things in the distance for long enough, over a period of time I'd train them back. Which I can't be bothered to do. On the upside, I have fantastic reflexs and peripheral vision, among those things described above.

So yeah.... depends on how you define "improves". Improved in some parts maybe, but is it worth the trade off? I'll have to let you know in a few years, whether I'll need glasses for driving heh.

 

The only discernible benefit to my eyesight from gaming is periferal vision. It will probably take some time.

 

While the Daily Mail is hardly a source to be trusted, I'm sure that your eyesight is going to go bad once you're in your mid-20s anyway regardless of how many video games you play.

 

Agreed. As a side note - The Mail is usually too busy deciding whether things are going to give you cancer or cure cancer to do any proper journalism. Current favourites of mine are stories about how Facebook may raise your risk of cancer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html and how hot tea may raise your risk of throat cancer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1165138/Letting-tea-cool-minutes-cuts-risk-throat-cancer.html . Both stories are a load of old nonsense.

 

Playing games with your lights off is bad for your eyesight. Take it from me. I've got pretty good night vision, though!

 

To tell the truth it pisses me off that I can't see anything past a certain distance unless I wear my glasses. Sure, I can read a book or sit right in front of my monitor and not have to wear glasses but the fact is that if I'm sitting on my bed I'll have to wear my glasses just to read what's on my monitors. It's just damned inconvenient and I wish this study were true.

 

I wish my eyesight was as good as yours. I can't even read gameriot font without putting my face 6-7 inches away from the monitor. I've been playing video games since I was 4. I also definitely notice a decrease in eyesight after prolonged exposure to video games.

 

It's more likely that your eyesight would have deteriorated regardless of your to exposure to video games. 

I can say with absolute certainty that I ****** up my own eyesight by playing video games with the lights off at night, though. My eyes would be bloodshot by morning and tearing. It's kind of like reading in the dark. You can do it, but your eyes are gonna sting like ****.