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This App Trains You to See Farther

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Re: This App Trains You to See Farther

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Have you heard about the McCollough[1] effect? Check the URL, it's an image you can look at for a few minutes, and it will change the way you process images for several hours. For me it lasted days. And it's all in the brain.

http://www.cheswick.com/ches/projects/me/

Re: This App Trains You to See Farther

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Post by devindotcom »

This kind of reminds of playing Tribes in the early days. I was a sniper and would hang out in the mountains, monitoring miles of terrain and waiting for the slightest pixel of movement so I could zoom in to the max and nail it with the laser gun. That game definitely improved my visual responsivity and awareness, if not my actual acuity.

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Post by NDizzle »

devindotcom wrote: post #13

This kind of reminds of playing Tribes in the early days. I was a sniper and would hang out in the mountains, monitoring miles of terrain and waiting for the slightest pixel of movement so I could zoom in to the max and nail it with the laser gun. That game definitely improved my visual responsivity and awareness, if not my actual acuity.

Yep. My time spent playing Delta Force 1 paid off in Tribes. (More so in Tribes 2 - too bad nobody played that one!)

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joshstrange wrote: post #3
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Did you read the article? > Despite its name, UltimEyes has little to do with improving the physical eye or eye muscles. Rather, the app works by exploiting recent insights into when and how the adult brain can be fundamentally rewired—a concept known as neuroplasticity.

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benched wrote: post #9
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We're talking about the brain. The brain can change itself from the inside just by willing it. Much more can you change the brain using purposefully designed external stimuli. The brain is like a FPGA, part of which implements a FPGA programmer.

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