Naval Warfighters playing video games
Well while the title suggests that the US Navy personnel are playing video games all day long and not protecting the shores of the USA, it has a serious upside in that research is finding that gamers do have a much better perceptual field in a battle scenario than non game players.
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| Research currently being undertaken by the Office of Naval Research is showing that videogame training is having “surprising” results in helping military personnel adapt to the challenges of fighting terrorists, according to a story on the Department of Defense website. Ray Perez, a Program Officer for the Office of Naval Research’s Warfighter Performance department, offered comment on what the group’s research has uncovered so far: We have discovered that video game players perform 10 to 20 percent higher in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability than normal people that are non-game players. |
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