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Not just last-gen hardware, but also with a network that deliberately drops maybe 0.5% of packets, and delays some at random! I hadn't considered the VR aspect
by robinsonb5 4y ago
Not just last-gen hardware, but also with a network that deliberately drops maybe 0.5% of packets, and delays some at random!
I hadn't considered the VR aspect, but you're absolutely right - the jarring nature of UI "jank" would be literally nauseating in VR.
- rbanffy 4y ago> with a network that deliberately drops maybe 0.5% of packets, and delays some at random! I've seen Sun's Crossbow stuff in use once, but it made quite an impression - it allowed testing many failure scenarios with relatively little effort.
- taneq 4y agoYeah, there's a hard latency threshold beyond which most users very quickly get VR sickness. Abrash has some fascinating writeups on the research he was involved in at Oculus back in the early days. Like you say, modern devs really need to remember to test against a high latency unreliable network. Or even just against a lack of network at all... it constantly astounds me that companies like Microsoft can let critical, central components like the start menu cease functioning without an internet connection. I recently had the start menu refuse to find any programs on my computer because it was trying to get to Bing and I was on a remote site with only local Ethernet plugged in.