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What's the resolution and bitrate of a general human eye? I have a theory: the ultimate limit of broadband upgrading movement is our brain's whole throughput.

• Retric 17y ago
  That's a hard problem. The human eye is only ~2 megapixels but it's focused on a small part of your field of view. So if you wanted to fool the eye you either need to track what it's looking at or to create a huge high resolution screen most of which is ignored. Add in the ability to focus and you suddenly need to add depth information and a display that can handle it or you will not fool the eye. Now add the fact that most people have 2 of them and it gets even more insane. PS: Video cards have far higher internal bandwidth than external bandwidth for a reason. Focusing on the brains bandwidth is not going to be enough.
• mseebach 17y ago
  I'm pretty sure I've read that the resolution is somewhat unlimited (i.e. it your field of vision blends in seemslessly with short-term memory) but the bandwidth is actually quite limited, but variable (i.e. can handle much change in a small area or little change in a large area).
• nradov 17y ago
  Back in 1995 Jakob Nielsen estimated it as ~1Tbps. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9511.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9511.html