Athletes are continually looking for ways to improve their performance and gain an advantage in training to give them a leg up on their competition.

Professional and collegiate athletes are embracing vision training and new technologies to heighten their cognitive abilities. One particular program, NeuroTracker, which is a video game designed to heighten cognitive agility by tracking spheres across a 3D screen, spread to more than 550 training facilities by 2017, according to the New York Times.