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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Video Games Help 'Lazy Eye'

Playing virtual reality games might help amblyopia, also called LAZY EYE, which is a condition where one eye works harder and better than the other, according to researchers at Nottingham University. Current treatments can require some 400 hours of therapy. But by "tweaking" 3D VR games -- sending an image of the player's own racecar in a driving game, for example, only to the "weak" eye -- therapy can be reduced to just one hour.

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