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Fancy trying this? Research into brain activity via computer games

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whenim64 Fri 03-Jan-14 11:08:56

Looks quite difficult, but apparently practice improves your ability to do this exercise colouring in pathways in the brain

www.npr.org/2013/03/05/173435599/wanna-play-computer-gamers-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research

whenim64 Fri 03-Jan-14 11:21:33

Frustrating that this isn't available on Apple devices. You have to go to a PC or laptop.

dollie Fri 03-Jan-14 11:47:02

theres a lot you cant do on an apple device!!! im not impressed with the ipad at all i wish i had of investigated into to it more...

Grandmanorm Fri 03-Jan-14 13:26:03

I went to Apple help and followed the instructions to enable WebGL but it hasn't worked and I have the latest update for the Mac. What a nuisance.

wingnut Fri 03-Jan-14 15:53:41

Not sure what you mean by 'Apple devices'. It certainly works fine on any OS X device. It doesn't work on iOS devices as yet, nor on windows mobile devices. On desktop/laptop systems, webGL works fine for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, but not for Internet Explorer. On mobile devices, it works for Firefox, Chrome and Opera on Android. See codeflow.org/entries/2013/feb/02/why-you-should-use-webgl/#does-it-run-on-my-favorite-platform.

I think you can expect it to come to iOS though, because Apple does support open HTML5 technologies (in preference to proprietory technologies, such as Adobe Flash) and does support OpenGL ES on iOS (and OpenGL on OS X).

For things like this - open source projects - you generally get them faster on open source operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Android. For the latter, the downside is that you get reduced security (there are no viruses for OS X or iOS, nor very likely to be).

whenim64 Fri 03-Jan-14 16:28:12

I did the same, Grandmanorm. Works on my laptop.

seasider Sat 04-Jan-14 00:26:52

Gosh Wingnut I am impressed! Just wish I understood all this tech stuffconfused