Impact of foveated rendering in the Virtual Reality (VR) industry

While improving the VR display resolution, headset makers are also working towards development of foveated rendering, which computes the highest quality image only at the center of the human visual field.

Our eyes can see full resolution only at the center of vision; foveated rendering tracks eye movement and enables the processor to render full resolution on display any area where the eyes are focusing. With efficient eye-tracking technology, foveated rendering sharpens the image at the focus point of the eyes, and reduce the resolution outside the focus point saving the graphic processing loads.

Foveated rendering and eye tracking are likely to become important technologies in future VR HMDs for rendering high resolution images, according ABI Research.