IED Detection: One Skill Gaming Does Not Improve

Now, see, THAT'S research.  Observation is beaten down as valid research, but it truly is.  Especially when you know so much about those you are researching.

Peripheral vision, when it comes to computer/video games, is really artificial.  You have the limits of the screen in front of you.  Moving the "Camera" is turning your head.  That's not peripheral vision.

Now, supposedly (and I don't have the money or the inclination right now), having 3 or more monitors widens the view.  But unless those two side monitors are on either side of your head, technically, you're still looking straight on, unless you're vision limits you to the middle monitor and only portions of the side monitors.

I'm not sure how VR glasses worked for normal vision folks.  they were crap for me.

The best environmental equivilant gaming system would be a monitor, from floor to ceiling, a full half circle around the room that you would stand in front of (if you drew a straight line from each end of the monitor and stood at the middle of that line).  I really don't see a better system for providing true peripheral vision support from a computer/video game.  And you'd probably have to extend the monitor up and down to get those perspectives as well.

Other than that, live simulation training is the only way to train for the real world.

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I'm going to have to take the sarcastic route as well... Hunters and kids from rough neighborhoods have better peripheral vision and are better at spotting things!?  And people who mostly stare straight ahead don't!?  NO WAI!

In all honesty, I don't think my own peripheral vision would be as great as it is if it wasn't for years of marching band.  If you screwed up there you'd end up being the jerk who steps all over the guy that just passed out from dehydration or the idiot who backs up too far and rams into the person behind you.

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I wonder if there's any difference between console and PC gamers?  The relative distances from the screens probably changes the level of perception.

Also, my peripheral vision is great, because as the resident socially inept kid in elementary school, I constantly had to be aware of potential wedgies and wet-willies from any direction.  Even today I get a little jumpy if someone comes up on me between five and seven o'clock.  I guess today's modern hip call o' duty gamerz don't have to develop those skills, tho.

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Hunters are good at spotting things? Stop the freakin' presses...