Can Playing Violent Video Games Improve Your Eyesight?

[MrKLM]

many reports like this have been released and more are being studied, violence can be caused by many games from time to time the blame gets shifted from one thing to another.

[[MIA]DirtGhost]

Perfect excuse to keep playing !

[Alm()nd J()y]

Neat, I've been playing almost 4 years of FPS and my eyes are still 20-20.

[Idaeus]

I really doubt my eyes get any better from computer gaming. Tbh I think I get worse eyesight... It obviously isnt a good idea to stare into a screen for hours at a time! You DO get a more curved neck though...

[ham_411]

i play loads of FPS's and i wear glasses so nope. didnt read all replies so it may have already come up.
the reason behind this is because when for example playing BF2, you need to be aware of everything that pops up on your screen in order to have any real chance of staying alive. look away for one second and you'll find yourself "critically wounded" so i think that these people that were tested have just trained their eyes in the 30 hours playing time to notice more in their virtual surroundings, hence the improved test results.
i know i've just written a reply to the it, but is anyone else thinking "who the hell thought 'lets do a test to see if FPS's improve eyesight'"? i mean come on, what grounds would you need to come up with that one?:laugh:
go and do some real work:p
then again, i suppose its a change from the usual

violent videos games make people want to kill each other

[ganjanoof]

Of course playing fps improves your reflexes, and at least a certain kind of eye-to-hand coordination. The eyes, the brain and the hand are all parts of the body that can be trained to perform certain things faster. That's the principle of training in general, I see no wonder in that.

I am sure you just get trained and therefore when you'll notice a small bunch of pixels moving at the border of your field of sight, your brain gets the habit of focusing onto it much much faster that for a "non-gamer". So it enhances the way you treat the visual stimuli you get. For sample, I noticed that I am quite faster than the average of my relatives when I drive a car. I will spot cars braking beyond the scope people usually look at on the highway, I have the habit to watch carefully all my field of view when I drive and also to react and interpret very fast what's happening. It think it's an habit I got from gaming : an ability to be really focused on the road, the other cars, the whole picture and have the car much quickly in control than an average driver. Also, I'm not quickly tired of driving long distances. Driving a car is much similar to playing a fps game to me, in terms of mind focusing I mean (I don't "frag" pedestrians ^^).

But about real "sight", I really don't think it changes anything.