Can a driving game make you sharper? This is the shorter version of our driving game video, with the study up front.
It opens on the game on the TV, then the study: in 2013, scientists at UC San Francisco had people aged 60 to 85 play a driving game for about 12 hours over a month. Afterwards they beat 20-year-olds playing it for the first time, and six months later it had stuck. The facts appear on a card as they're said, followed by the news coverage from Science, NBC News and AARP.
Then BoomerOS, the simple TV system we built for our parents: the Drive game in its menu, a moment of YouTube and of Netflix on the same TV, and the game itself. The phone held sideways is the steering wheel, with one big Stop button and one big Go button, and the car stops at a red light and waits for green.
It ends on a question: would your parents play this? Our game is inspired by the study, not tested, and none of this is medical advice. More on BoomerOS.
Transcript
Most people don't know this,
but a driving game can help make older brains sharper.
Back in 2013, scientists at UC San Francisco
had people aged 60 to 85 play a driving game,
about 12 hours over a month.
Afterwards, they beat 20-year-olds
playing it for the first time.
Six months later, it had stuck,
and their attention and memory got better too.
It made headlines everywhere, even AARP.
I asked AI to build my parents their own version.
BoomerOS is the simple TV system we built for our parents,
that not only for watching TV,
but for also playing games like this,
watching YouTube and Netflix.
So basically we have to hold the phone sideways like a wheel.
So this is actually a very simple game
where you can kind of see if I tilt side to side, I go.
And then it's just a stop and a go.
Oh, that's a red.
So let me stop at the line.
Stop.
Oh, I gotta wait.
There we go.
Would your parents play this?
Tell me in the comments.