This App Trains You to See Farther

Post by dorfsmay » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:51 AM UTC

cjensen wrote: post #39

staunch wrote: post #38

> " When a major league baseball pitcher throws a 95-mph fastball, only about 400 milliseconds—the duration of a blink—pass before the ball rockets over the plate. And a batter gets less than half that time to decide whether to swing, and where. Baseball" Bah! That's not a knife. This is a knife: twitch FPS gaming. Quake Live at 250 FPS, refreshed at 144hz, with any day . Interestingly, my vision is extremely good. I…

You would lose the bet :-) Keep in mind that the ball is coming straight on, and the batter must discern trajectory (rising, falling) and spin (which affects how the ball curves) and velocity quickly enough that you still have time to move the bat. For example, a fastball and a changeup both drop at the same rate and spin at the same rate. One is coming at 100mph, the other at 75. Since the ball is heading straight f…

Post by has2k1 » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 4:00 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #56

fatrachet wrote: post #51

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This app specifically improves clear vision at farther distances, which seems far more useful on a daily basis, especially since a lot of people don't have good vision. Compared to twitch games that only improve reaction time in a very limited practically applicable scope. Considering the small amounts of time investment necessary to get good results, this app seems much more useful than playing quake.

The way the app works seems to me to be a subset of what's required to play Quake well, so if it works I'd bet Quake works better. I also think Quake has other benefits (like reaction time training, spatial awareness, etc, etc) but it could have other downsides too.

Post by eru » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 4:14 AM UTC

oakwhiz wrote: post #8

The image that they show reminds me of the way that the 2D discrete cosine transform works. http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/imgs/512/312/2680596/2680596_pone.0... It looks similar to this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Dctjpeg....

Post by alexqgb » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 5:46 AM UTC

dorfsmay wrote: post #61

cjensen wrote: post #39

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You would lose the bet :-) Keep in mind that the ball is coming straight on, and the batter must discern trajectory (rising, falling) and spin (which affects how the ball curves) and velocity quickly enough that you still have time to move the bat. For example, a fastball and a changeup both drop at the same rate and spin at the same rate. One is coming at 100mph, the other at 75. Since the ball is heading straight f…

I usually don't like to neatpick, but please say speed when you mean it. Velocity is a vector, it is a speed and a trajectory. Thanks.

Post by staunch » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 6:29 AM UTC

eru wrote: post #58

staunch wrote: post #56

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The way the app works seems to me to be a subset of what's required to play Quake well, so if it works I'd bet Quake works better. I also think Quake has other benefits (like reaction time training, spatial awareness, etc, etc) but it could have other downsides too.

> [...] but it could have other downsides too. Like sitting on your ass? (I like Quake, but I wouldn't pretend I play it for anything but fun.) There's also some research that shows that RTS are the best thing for practicing multitasking and fast decision making under uncertainty.