How to Use field of view in a Sentence

field of view

noun phrase
  • The shorter the focal length, the wider the field of view.
    Jen McCaffery, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
  • The field of view on the Quest 3 is slightly wider than on the Quest 2.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But a deer’s eyes are on the sides of its face, which creates a much wider field of view.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 July 2023
  • Compare that to, say, the Hubble Space Telescope, which has a field of view that is just 1/12th the size of the moon.
    Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 4 July 2023
  • The smaller and closer to the dot that the circle becomes, the more narrow your field of view.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The field of view is 410 microns wide, about size of a sugar crystal.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
  • The 2023 Accord comes with a new camera and radar package that both have wider fields of view.
    Andrew Beckford, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The brow over the dashboard makes for a shallow windshield, and the stocky A-pillars stretch forward into the field of view.
    Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In the telescope’s field of view, Andromeda was a giant.
    WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But those drones cost more than this one, and with narrower fields of view: they weren’t made to let you first-person-swoop through the air.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
  • This camera has a 22-degree field of view and offers Google's Super Res Zoom up to 20x.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Shortly before 8 o’clock as the sun was getting low, the tiny white beauty appeared in my scope field of view.
    Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And some of the mirrors will be able to adjust their shape 2,000 times a second, to keep star images crisp over a field of view two-thirds the size of a full moon.
    Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The one on the left is designed for long range with a narrow field of view, whereas the one on the right will operate at short range with a wide field of view.
    Michael Watts, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The secret sauce of the $1.5 billion Euclid mission is its ability to view the Universe with a wide field of view.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The center of your field of view is optimized for seeing color, but the rest of your retina is made to pick up faint light.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Its 360° all-round field of view allows panoramic vision.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Engineers had to roll the Solar Orbiter 45 degrees to get Parker in its field of view.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Our top performer was the Arlo 2K Video Doorbell, which has the widest field of view and can be installed wired or wirelessly.
    Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Its stars can be glimpsed in a telescope’s same field of view as small, diffuse patches of light northwest of Dubhe in the Big Dipper.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Tesla, meanwhile, uses a camera mounted in the rear-view mirror with a much wider field of view.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • There are two forms of measurement for field of view: angular and linear.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • The trainee wears the glasses, which project what the person is seeing onto a transparent frame that overlays Ghazi’s hands onto the field of view.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 21 June 2023
  • The field of view could be wider, and there should be more unique interactions with other Apple devices.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Rather than closing one eye to look at the stars through a telescope, get a full field of view with these giant binoculars designed for the heavens.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2023
  • Nvidia’s Jensen Huang praised the device’s eye tracking, color contrast and field of view, all packed into a sleek 100-gram design.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • What works in a game played on a mobile phone might not work on AR glasses, which offer a wider field of view and don’t rely so heavily on hands to play.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the field of view is wide enough to keep an eye on packages during the day and DoorDash deliveries in the evening (thanks to night vision mode).
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • The curved lens means swimmers have a wide field of view and feel more confident swimming underwater.
    Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These satellites can also detect wildfires, but the imagers on Planet's spacecraft have a narrower field of view than those envisioned by FireSat.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2024

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