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Foveated rendering

Foveated rendering

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Foveated rendering

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- [Instructor] One of the most exciting things about immersive realities, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, any of the immersive realities, is the constant change of technology, and it is moving at a very quick rate. So I think it's important to tap into what is new and what's happening, or for that matter, what is coming. So today I thought we'd take a look at something referred to as foveated rendering. So what is foveated rendering? Well, in order to do that, I think we should do a quick little anatomical study here of what the fovea is. The fovea is a part of your eye. So fovea centralis, that's a small, dense, cone-packed area at the back of the eye. And the fovea is actually Latin for pit, so think of this as a small, really densely-packed pit of cones in the back of your eye that allows you to see. It's the area that really allows you to have sharp, focused, central vision. Let's take a look at a diagram here. Here we can see kind of a cross-section of an eye…

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