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Human eye is practically capable of seeing around 8 megapixels, which is a similar number of pixels to what a 4K TV has (but obviously with completely different distribution). There was a great episode about it on vsauce yt channel. We are pretty blind, but saccading masking does the magic to make our eyes super efficient.


That resolution is not evenly ditributed throughout our FOV, but rather is highly concentrated in the center of our vision. This makes "similar number of pixels" pretty meaningless.




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