You're thinking of Foveated 3D Graphics[1]. Despite being a research project, they still got a 5-6x performance improvement. VR will get foveated rendering eve

You're thinking of Foveated 3D Graphics[1]. Despite being a research project, they still got a 5-6x performance improvement. VR will get foveated rendering eventually. The performance improvements are too good to ignore. 1. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/176610/foveated_final15.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/176610/foveated_final15.p...