16K resolution is a

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with approximately 16,000 pixels horizontally. The most commonly discussed 16K resolution is , which doubles the pixel count of

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in each dimension, for a total of four times as many pixels. This resolution has 132.7

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s, 16 times as many pixels as

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and 64 times as many pixels as

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resolution. As of June 2022, 16K resolutions can be run using multi-monitor setups with

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Surround.

History

In 2016,

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announced a target for their future graphics cards to support 16K resolution with a refresh rate of 240Hz for "true immersion" in VR.

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released a series of videos in 2017 attempting to play video games at 16K using sixteen 4K monitors. In 2018, US filmmaker Martin Lisius released a short

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film titled, "Prairie Wind" that he produced using a 2-camera

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system he developed. Two still images were stitched together to create one pixel image and then rendered as 16K resolution video with an extremely wide aspect ratio of . This is among the first known 16K videos to exist. Innolux displayed the world's first 100-inch 16K8K () display module at Touch Taiwan in August 2018.

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introduced a commercial 16K display at NAB 2019 that is set to be released in Japan. It is made up of 576 modules (each ) in a formation of 48 by 12 modules, forming a screen, with aspect ratio. On June 26, 2019, VESA formally released the

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2.0 standard with support for one 16K (-pixel) display supporting 30-bit-per-pixel 4:4:4

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/ -color HDR video at a refresh rate of 60 Hz using

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video compression.

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