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# New video game can actually help kids’ vision.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-video-game-can-actually-help-kids-vision/
- Published: 2011-05-25T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:43.000Z
- Description: Ever been told not to sit too close to a screen because it might damage your eyes? Researchers and the University of Manchester have found a way around that. Sort of. They have developed a new game that allows kids as young as four to sit still long enough for them to check for things like glaucoma
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Ever been told not to sit too close to a screen because it might damage your eyes? Researchers and the University of Manchester have found a way around that. Sort of. They have developed a new game that allows kids as young as four to sit still long enough for them to check for things like glaucoma and even brain tumors. Tariq Islam, a consultant from the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital describes it:

> *“We built a large toy castle roughly a metre high. A pair of magic glasses is set into the front wall, and when the child looks right through them we know they are in the right position and so a drawbridge in the castle wall electronically opens to allow the child to see and play a game on a screen within. The aim of the game is to track a wizard inside the castle, and press a button to help him squash rogue tomatoes. While concentrating on the wizard in the centre of the screen, they then press a different button if they spot a ghost appearing at the corners. Their reactions are recorded automatically by the software using a laptop attached to the game [screen](http://www.healthjockey.com/2011/05/23/novel-computer-game-apparently-treats-eye-diseases-in-children/?ref=killscreen.com). Parents do sometimes worry about their children spending too much time looking at computer screens, but in this case it could potentially help to save a child’s sight or give valuable information to help treat their medical condition.”*

–*Lana Polansky*

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