Blogpost #5 : A Brain Training Game That Improves Your Vision

Playing computer games, watching television, surfing the net, uploading photos, downloading torrents, and chatting. Those are the hobbies of the new generation teenagers including myself. I do really love to spend more time in surfing the internet because of the fact that it will provide me many useful information. I love to watch videos in Youtube mostly tutorials, specially when it comes to basketball moves in order to improve my basketball skills. Eating in front of a computer is also my habit. I enjoy eating while watching those latest anime episodes from the internet. However, all of this habits are damaging the most important part of our senses, our eyes. Due to long exposure to the monitor which may lead to many eye problems like near- sightedness (myopia), astigmatism and many more.

According to the article entitiled "Brain training game improves vision and success of baseball players" by Honor Whiteman in a sight called "medicalnewstoday" that a video-game vision training could improve a baseball player's vision and also skills. Scientist and researchers now conducted several test and training to baseball athletes. According to the Snellen eye-chart  20/20 is classed as normal vision. However after the players complete the video game training, the researchers  found that some players saw their vision improve to 20/7.5. That means that an average person can read at a distance of 7.5 feet and those players who undergone training are able to read at a distance of 20 feet. It is really helpful for people who had eye problems like me.

 Honor Whiteman said "This type of vision training can help improve not only sports performance, but many of these activities in non-athletes as well". I'am really happy for what Honor had said. It could really be a big help for us who have many different eye problems. I hope that this kind of training will be reachable to people who like to undergo this kind of training. It could lessen the money being spent for eye operations and lessens worry for people who does not have enough money. I have read an article entitled "Training your brain to improve your vision" by James Hamblin in a site called "theatlantic" that there is a fun and rewarding game called "Ultimeyes" that could improve vision and also reverse the effects of aging eyes.

 "We suggest that this approach has great potential to aid many individuals that rely on vision" said James. This app is available on itunes and I hope that I could see it in the playstore. Due to this modern era, many people now are experiencing problems in the eyes. This research will be a big thing in helping to recover people in their eye problems not only physically but also mentally. The eye is one of the most important senses, therefore we need to take care of our eyes and learn how to adjust in today's modern world.