[enragedcacti]

It could be reframed as saying we have a peak acuity equivalent to a 576MP camera of the same FOV with a theoretical max of 20 samples per second (50 ms to move targets, realistically probably more like single digits). The 8MP comparison is only relevant if there are so many targets that need constant full resolution that you can't focus on all of them or the targets are so large that they are larger than the peak acuity FOV. In practice this is not the case because we can identify something once and keep tracking it in the periphery without issues and something that large will likely be extremely easy to identify.

[robocat]

That doesn't make sense: a camera doesn't get more pixels just because the camera is taking a video tracking something. Neither if it had zoom and a controlled gimbal.

[enragedcacti]

If you turn that tracked video into a panorama it would. Or if you took 10 zoomed photos and stitched them over top of an unzoomed photo. The point is that unless the task demands more focus areas than the eye can focus on in a given window then the visual acuity (for the parts of the scene that matter) is higher than an 8MP shot of the entire scene.