Game News This video game detects this disease in record time and becomes a cure for doctors
Published on 05/09/2022 at 18:07
The video game, this scourge! It is enough to take up more or less old reports to realize that the media is constantly in the sights of our dear well-meaning television, all wrapped up in tremendous bad faith. And still, today, it’s soft compared to certain reports of the 1990s. However, we too often forget that video games can be a fantastic vector in medicine.
Japanese researchers detect glaucoma
It’s a fact and we can’t deny it, screens are an integral part of our daily lives and excessive use of them can have an impact on eyesight after a few years. Today, there are a whole bunch of little tricks to attenuate the radiation from these screens, but it is obvious that the eyeballs are under great strain. To this end, and without going against a time when screens have become the norm, Japanese researchers had the ingenious idea of creating a video game aimed at detecting whether people have glaucoma, a chronic eye disease. and causing irreversible blindness.
Meteor Blastor, an ingenious and formidable idea
Developed jointly with the support of the television group Sendai Broadcasting, researchers from the Graduate School of Medicine at Tohoku University (in the Sendai region) invented a game called Meteor Blastor. Thus, in just five minutes, they are able to detect if a person has glaucoma. The particularity of the program lies in its use. To play, players must hold their phone (because it’s a mobile game) about 30 centimeters from their eyes. On four levels, you have to destroy meteorites with a central laser and capture white dots. Once this is done, the program will evaluate the reactions and establish a report by targeting several criteria rated from 1 to 5 (1 being the optimal score). Doctors can then advise the person to seek medical attention to correct the sight problem before it is too late. You can even go to the Meteor Blastor site at this address.