Playing computer games could help improve people’s peripheral vision, new research reveals.
Researchers have found a significant improvement in the peripheral awareness of people who played computer games specially designed around using peripheral vision.
This finding opens up the possibility that these types of games can be used to help improve players’ performance in team sports – so they can spot team-mates quicker – or to help them to identify potential hazards at the side of their vision.
Researchers at Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications were keen to explore how players’ peripheral vision might be used within computer games and if playing games could help to improve a players’ peripheral awareness.
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Image: This is a screen from the SuperVision suite of games. (Credit: Argenis Ramirez Gomez)