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Ubisoft Has New Video Game Designed To Treat Lazy Eye
wired_parrot writes Ubisoft, in partnership with McGill university, has developed a game designed to treat lazy eye. The game works as a treatment by training both eyes using different levels of contrast of red and blue that the patient sees through stereoscopic glasses. It is hopeful that the new treatment will bring a more effective way of addressing a condition that affects 1-5% of the population.
Is it capped at 30fps as that's all we'll ever need?
lazy eye
It's called kinetically challenged ocular organ, you insensitive clod.
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It will have a boss battle.
Bloody annoying.
As my eye quality slowly degraded, I found at night, when I was straining to read something my left eye would just basically say "look, I'm wasting everyones time here, do you mind if I shut down?" and it would just pull a C3PO and just whirrrr and look down to the lower left.
Quite annoying considering I wasn't a "lazy eye" guy previously.
Seems to particularly kick in when I'm tired too.
I wonder if there's a way to get glasses which are slightly worse in one eye to make the other one pick it's game up?
games like this have existed for years. maybe the ubisoft game is bigger, more engaging or whatever. but games using red/blue and special glasses are nothing new. or maybe it was just my imagination when my kids started using one few years ago already for lazy eye treatment..
It''ll probably require UPlay
The book that explains it all and offers the solution to the "lazy eye" problem: http://www.fixingmygaze.com/
The exercise you should be doing daily, to get rid of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_string (also check out videos on Youtube)
Unfortunately, reported side effects include objects appearing to pop into your vision, seeing people as having no faces, feeling like one is falling through the world, the world around you appearing to slow down, strange reactions to hay, and feeling disconnected from others.
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What's wrong with me eye patch? IT JUST WORKS!!
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Have some suggestions for the game name: VideoHead, or Lazy Eye Falling into Place, or Paranoid Eyedroid
... gives people lazy eye, and they trust us to let them fix it? I'll take my chances, thanks.
Buck Feta. You know what to do.
1-5% you say? So in my graduating class, there were 33 kids with a lazy eye? Actually there were zero.
News presenter: ... sounds like a treatment from a bygone area ...
Seriously, I thought a decent command of the English language was one of the requirements for the job?
Does it require an always on internet connection?
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When I was a kid the doctors were actually doing the same thing. They gave me a book to read with alternate red and blue words and red/blue glasses to wear. The idea was to strengthen your lazy eye. What it does do is trains you in the weird ability to consciously control which eye you are looking out of. This has the unfortunate side effect of severely impairing your 3d vision / depth perception.
Whenever I mention those glasses to doctors today they grumble sub-vocally and get this disgusted look on their face like I was talking about blood letting using leeches. The proper treatment for mild lazy eye is prescription glasses. For severe cases surgery is required.
As an amblyopiist I'll tell Ubisoft to suck rocks and just deal on my own, thanks.
something that doesn't create a a lazy ass as a byproduct.
one could take an open source game and modify the graphics so some are light cyan and some are light red. Then you wouldn't be dependent on Ubisoft or this other firm, nor wait for the FDA trails to give it try. Of course do it quietly or you'll have a patent troll on you.
My father suffers from double vision following brain surgery. I wonder if this or something similar would help with that. So far, his doctors haven't been able to help him much.
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You can't tell a person who has a lazy eye from one who does not just by looking at them. You can't even tell by their prescription! For example, I have hyperopia in both eyes, and I correct it with eyeglasses - 3.5 in one eye, 5.5 on the other. The eye that had more hyperopia was used less by my brain, since it was less useful before I started wearing glasses. The doctor when I was young should have patched the good eye for a while, but he was a lousy doctor. So now, with the glasses that correct hyperopia, I have 10/10 vision on one eye and 6/10 vision on the other. I correct the hyperopia, but the brain hasn't learned to use it much. If I did not tell you it is so, you would have no way of knowing. An eye-doctor cannot tell unless you read the letters on the wall - the eye seems normal. In any case, doctors have been telling me it cannot be corrected in adults. TFA though claims this thing does work on adults. If it does, it would be great for many people.
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So it'll obviously has some kind of DRM.
Or does it blind you if you bought a copy cheaper from some store which they "didn't approve?"
I'll be happy if I can use this software to help.
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