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Developing spatial awareness, speed-reading skills, hand-eye coordination, and lots of practice distinguishing fantasy from reality?
by EForEndeavour 3y ago
Developing spatial awareness, speed-reading skills, hand-eye coordination, and lots of practice distinguishing fantasy from reality?
- mcpackieh 3y agoThere's at least some experimental evidence to suggest that race car sims with VR displays and steering wheel interfaces can train (some) real racing skills. But I really doubt that playing GTA with a console controller or mouse and keyboard do the same. Cars in GTA don't even behave like cars IRL, neither the ones you drive and certainly not the ones being driven by the computer. None of the muscle memory translates and any other hand-eye coordination skills transferring from one to the other is extremely dubious. With a VR headset you might have something to go off of, but otherwise GTA trains you to keep your head facing forward to the screen instead of on a swivel, so if anything GTA probably makes you a worse driver IRL.
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoYeah except now kids are actually out there living that GTA life for real. Just stealing and attacking people randomly.