Can your eye see past 60 fps?
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What it means
Yes. The idea that your eye 'maxes out' at 60 fps — or 30, or the 24 fps of movies — is a myth: human vision doesn't work in a fixed number of frames per second, so there's no hard ceiling it stops at. In fast-moving games most people can clearly see and feel the jump from 60 to 144 Hz, which is exactly why high-refresh monitors took over.
More detail
Two things keep improving as refresh rate climbs: motion stays sharper (each frame is shown for less time, so fast objects blur less) and the game feels more responsive (a fresh frame arrives sooner after you move the mouse). Neither is the eye 'reading frames' — they're separate effects, and they're real. …
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