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>>PaulHo+(OP)
I always say "on a scale from no canoe to a $5K canoe, even the crappiest canoe is 80% of the way there". This camera illustrates that for vision. When you hear about those visual implants that give you, say, 16x16 grayscale you think that's nothing. Yet 30x30 grayscale as seen in this video, especially with live updates and not just a still frame is... vision. Not 80% of the way there, but does punch way above its weight class in terms of usefulness.

>>Markus+S1
The moment you add motion and temporal continuity, even a postage-stamp image turns into something your brain can work with

>>SwtCyb+mT9
In some situations, you can trade resolution for frequency and maintain quality. 1-bit audio is a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital

>>dehrma+LEa
Back in the Apple ][ days, the timing for writing to the cassette port and to the speaker were identical (just poking different addresses), so you could load audio from cassette using the ROM routines to read a program from tape, then use a modified routine that wrote to the speaker address instead of the cassette port address to play back the audio at 1-bit quality. It kind of sounded like something recorded off AM radio.

I also remember a lot of experimenting with timing to try to get a simulation of polyphonic sound by trying to toggle the speaker at the zeros of sin aθ + sin bθ.