Ishaan comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong
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This app has been demonstrated to successfully improve visual acuity in baseball players and performance in game. (Works on the brain, not the eyes.)
Popular press
Purchasable:
Original paper:
^ Link formatting is weird, so just copy-paste (Edit: fixed thanks to PECOS-9)
If you put a backslash before any closing parentheses in a url, it will work.
On the iTunes store 172 people gave it the lowest ranking, many saying it won't get past the name screen.
I just bought the Windows version. It's currently unusable because the mouse pointer disappears whenever the program's window is in front. I have sent an email to the support address.
I don't think I understand what distinction you're making here.
It means it trains your visual processing system to work better rather than training your eye muscles to focus better or something like that.
"Works on the software, not the hardware"/"the visual cortex, not the nature of incoming light/the shape of the eye/the configuration of sensors/etc."
Gurkenglas & ShardPhoenix are correct, and the reason the distinction is practically important is because it will not alter your eye-glass prescription or function as a replacement for glasses.