Category Archives: Just for fun

Sometimes it helps to see the humorous side, and always it helps to smile.

Stereogram: Find the unattached ring that is not a circle

Can you find the unattached ring that is not a circle? Click the thumbnail to try this stereogram, then use the back button in your browser to return to this page (see Caution below). View a 3-D stereogram image by … Continue reading

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Video games improve vision in adults with amblyopia

Video games can improve vision in adults with amblyopia by 30% according to a Sept., 2010, news release from the University of California, Berkley. Research subjects age 20-60 played video games for two hours at a time, for a total … Continue reading

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New fun video game offers vision training in minutes a day!

Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS. It’s designed to improve hand-eye coordination, focus, and peripheral vision through a series of fun games. Flash Focuswas developed in Japan and is distributed … Continue reading

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Stereoscopes, 3-d stereo binocular vision, and Vision Therapy

Ever since Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope using mirrors in the 1830′s, people have been fascinated with 3-dimentional stereoscopic vision and depth perception. The New Yorker published a very interesting article called Stereo Sue about 10 months ago. You’ll want … Continue reading

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Strabismus survey: How does strabismus affect you?

[See photo credit at end of article] This survey ran from 8/30/2006 to 9/30/2006. Thanks to everyone who completed this survey. If you missed this one, we plan to do another survey soon. The survey simply stated, “If you have … Continue reading

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