When I was a small child my parents would warn me that spending all day in front of the television playing video games would ruin my eyesight. Today researchers at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have integrated computer games into a device that could be instrumental in saving a child’s eyesight.
Think your eyes have no trouble detecting when an object changes colour, size, or shape? This new illusion crafted by Harvard’s Jordan W. Suchow and George A. Alvarez might just prove you wrong.
You might have a pair of eyes, but when you’re playing first-person video games, you’re no better than a cyclops. Neuroscientist Mark Changizi explains how our cyclops-vision helps pinpoint what we’re missing out on when we lose an eye.