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Probably can cut that down further due to :

* People's vision getting worse with age

* Each OLED pixel consists of 4 subpixels, so may only need to reach that acuity at sub pixel resolution

* Acuity drops and eyestrain increases at the edges of vision so likely only need maybe 75% of our range U/D L/R at the highest resolution, and the outer edges can have much lower resolution

Other hacks for foveated rendering include rendering peripheral vision at lower resolution and monochromatic, and not rendering in the blind spot, since our brains will just fill in those areas. May not be worth the complexity, but there's a lot of hacks that could take advantage of our visual system's quirks. I imagine ray tracing makes these hacks even easier to implement.



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