LONGECITY

This App Trains You to See Farther
Twenty-twenty vision? Big deal. UltimEyes could train your brain to see in 20/7.5.
By William Herkewitz

February 18, 2014 2:00 PM

When a major league baseball pitcher throws a 95-mph fastball, only about 400 milliseconds—the duration of a blink—pass before the ball rockets over the plate. And a batter gets less than half that time to decide whether to swing, and where. Baseball players, then, could reap huge benefits from being able to probe a baseball farther from their eyes. And that inspired Aaron Seitz, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Riverside, who has created a new, publicly available app that conditions users to see farther on or off the baseball diamond.

In a study published this week in the journal Current Biology, Seitz worked with 19 players on the University of California, Riverside, baseball team, and showed that his app UltimEyes lengthened the distance at which the players could see clearly by an average of 31 percent. After using the app for 30 25-minute intervals, players saw an improvement that pushed many of them beyond normal 20/20 vision, including seven who attained freakishly good 20/7.5 vision—meaning that at a distance of 20 feet, they were clearly seeing what someone with normal vision could see at no farther than 7.5 feet away.

http://www.popularme...arther-16506910

Anybody try this app yet?
http://ultimeyesvision.com/

Currently only available on iPhone, should come an android app "soon".

https://itunes.apple...d805410993?mt=8

I think there's a windows version. Or at least the website had a win8 logo on it, before it got swamped. I don't know if it means windows phone, or any old computer.

Does this work only with people that have normal vision to begin with, or people with myopia as well ?

He specifically doesn't make any claim for myopia. Nor does he say it doesn't work well either. The author himself is myopic i believe. Not sure what to make of it.

Bought it (windows), damn it's hard on your eyes.

Nattzor, what's your eyesight like to begin with?

Nattzor, what's your eyesight like to begin with?

No problems at all, I'm guessing around 20/20 (I probably should have it tested, but meh).
Two pics when you chose what you want to train:
http://i.imgur.com/erTuX5O.png
http://i.imgur.com/vJboBbx.png
Edited by Nattzor, 19 February 2014 - 07:42 PM.

Two pics when you chose what you want to train:
http://i.imgur.com/erTuX5O.png
http://i.imgur.com/vJboBbx.png

Can you do both or change your choice later on?

Can you do both or change your choice later on?

I have done it once, so no idea, but I think you can change later.

Heres something I was wondering about.... Lets say you have bad nearsightedness that is corrected to ~20/20. If your vision starts to improve with the app does that mean you will actually see worse wearing your current contacts because they will at that point be over-correcting?

That's been my assumption. Getting new lenses would be a great negative side effect to this treatment!

I just tried it last night, quite challenging. Sitting 5 feet from the screen (for far vision) is not necessarily easily accomplished. You basically need a laptop and wireless mouse and a large table.

Heres something I was wondering about.... Lets say you have bad nearsightedness that is corrected to ~20/20. If your vision starts to improve with the app does that mean you will actually see worse wearing your current contacts because they will at that point be over-correcting?

Edited by Shay, 21 February 2014 - 03:38 PM.

You have to get a code from an eye doctor just to use it for ios? That's very strange.

You have to get a code from an eye doctor just to use it for ios? That's very strange.

You do not.



Regarding training different vision, you can create multiply profiles to let more people use the program and/or train both long and near vision.

You have to get a code from an eye doctor just to use it for ios? That's very strange.

You do not.



Regarding training different vision, you can create multiply profiles to let more people use the program and/or train both long and near vision.

****ULTIMEYES® Professional requires a license key that can be obtained from an eye-care professional. Please contact your eye-care professional or contact us online if you are interested in using ULTIMEYES® Professional****'

That's from their ios/itunes description. Eye care professional as in one of their sales people?

The pro app requires a license code. The standard app does not, you just pay for it.

Both are available in the app store.

Reviving this thread because this App is great and actually works for those who are working on improving their eyesight.. you have to do it 25 minutes 4 times a week to get better vision.