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.

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Not PC

[codeButcher]

lazy eye

It's called kinetically challenged ocular organ, you insensitive clod.

Re:Not PC

[spune]

~Actually~, lazy eye is not a physical malady, but is a condition where the brain suppresses visual input from one eye, for whatever reason. Misaligned, crossed, or drifting eyes are reasons why some people develop lazy eye, but there are other causes that have nothing to do with "kinetically challenged" eyes. The misimpression that amblyopia is necessarily a physical problem is stoked by it's colloquial name "lazy eye," but humorless nerds should know better.

Re:I developed this crap when I hit 35

[wonkey_monkey]

My eyes do that too, especially when I'm tired. You can catch them in the act by closing your eyes for a few seconds and watching the images converge when you open them again.

When I'm really tired, I tilt my head the other way so gravity gives it a bit of help, or give it a push with my finger (against the eyelid, not the eyeball)

One of the tests when I got my last pair of glasses was for this kind of divergence, but these glasses don't seem to correct for it. My first pair may have done, as things appeared noticeably closer, so much so that I panicked a couple of times on my bike when it looked like my pedals should be scraping the floor.

Good idea but...

[Anonymous Coward]

It''ll probably require UPlay

The Brock string

[Anonymous Coward]

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)

Re:The Brock string

[spune]

Misalignment or poor coordination of the eyes (strabismus) is just one cause of lazy eye, so this therapy can help a subset of people with lazy eye. It's worth noting that drifting or crossed eyes can cause lazy eye, but lazy eye itself is an error in the way your brain processes visual information regardless of whether the cause is simply structural.

Side Effects

[mentil]

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.