Similarly, the trackpad's screen lacks visual fidelity and plays back YouTube videos at a choppy framerate.

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Oculus hopes to find a smaller, higher-resolution display for the consumer version, lightening the user's load while increasing visual fidelity.

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Its dedicated GPU certainly outpaces the integrated graphics its competitors cling to, though it trades in a little screen real estate and visual fidelity for the privilege of calling itself a gaming rig.

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