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Imagine all Olympic athletes were to start competing with an AR headset on, which added 5ms of lag to their vision. Would it be a problem if they were all force

• fragmede 2y ago
  Not sure I understand your point. There are a lots of rules and regulations on what Olympic athletes are allowed to do. What they eat, what they inject, what they wear. All of that is to make the competition as fair as possible and to have a level playing field so as to make for an interesting competition, to draw viewers, which is what the sponsors care about. For people watching esports, they need to believe that the game isn't rigged and people aren't cheating. A couple more scandals and the sponsors are going to require cloud-gaming just to keep viewers.
  • tiagod 2y ago
    My point is that it would change the game into a different one, with a different skill-set, and forcing everyone through the same restriction wouldn't make it any better. And even if I disregard all this, cloud gaming wouldn't solve the problem, as hardware cheats that don't run on the gaming machine would still be usable.
• maximus-decimus 2y ago
  No, I don't think it would be a problem, which is why I'm asking the question. Human eye has a 13ms latency according to google and yet it doesn't stop Olympic athletes from existing. I don't see what making the latency 18ms instead of 13ms changes if everybody has the same.