Ubisoft's Dig Rush Video Game May Become Just What The Doctor Ordered

Ubisoft Senior Producer Mathieu Ferland demonstrates Dig Rush, created by Ubisoft and Amblyotech to be the first therapeutic video game used for the treatment of'lazy eye.' (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) "Make sure you play your video game," is not something you commonly hear parents say to kids. But Amblyotech's Amblyopad device armed with Ubisoft's video games Dig Rush and Monster Burner may change this...at least in some households. Amblyotech just filed for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for these games to help treat "lazy eye," which is the lazier way of saying amblyopia. Amblyopia is when the one of your eye's vision is reduced because, as the National Eye Institute (NEI) describes, "the eye and the brain are not working together properly." In this condition which affects 3% of children, your brain favors using one eye over the other (assuming that you only have two eyes), perhaps because your eyes are misaligned (also called strabismus) or the vision in one eye is impaired.