Compensating for high head movement in head-mounted displays

One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions to perform a sequence comprising:

• determining if a rate of movement of a user's head exceeds a processing capability of a head mounted display to produce a depiction at a first resolution;
• if so, initially providing a depiction at a faster speed with a second resolution reduced relative to the first resolution;
• generating, in a host processor-based system, a segmented frame including a first frame portion and a second frame portion;
• obtaining information about a capability of the head mounted display coupled to said host processor-based system to combine said segmented first and second frame portions;
• and
• sending the segmented first and second frame portions at different rates to said head mounted display if said obtained information indicates that said head mounted display is capable of combining said segmented first and second frame portions, and otherwise combining the first frame portion and the second frame portion in a display engine of the host processor-based system and sending the combined frame to the head mounted display.