[tweakmonkey]

Slashdot reports on this story at BBC, about treating and correcting amblyopia (also known as lazy eye) with virtual reality (in this case a modified version of Project Gotham Racing was one of the games).

In patients with amblyopia, one eye works better than the other.
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In one experiment, the team has been trying out a racing game where the computer sends images of the player's own car to the amblyopic eye, but the other cars go to the good eye.
Obstacles on the track are sent alternately to each eye, so both eyes team up to get the patient through the game.
The researchers are encouraged by the results.
"We thought we'd develop a system that needed about 400 hours of treatment like patching. In the end we achieved the same effect in an hour," said Dr Eastgate.

Read the whole article here.

[Cartman]

they used video games to fix my eyes when i was in first grade... there was a blue squar and a red squar and i had to focus my eyes just perfectly enough to line them up on top of eachother than i clicked the button... i did it for a hour every few weeks.... what fun... i didnt have a lazy eye though
i had to put special glasses on though, 3d glasses