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I think that there's pretty little that can be done in terms of infrastructure improvements to the internet that will really help. We have more than enough band

I think that there's pretty little that can be done in terms of infrastructure improvements to the internet that will really help. We have more than enough bandwidth to stream these things at full resolution, but latency will always be the killer, at least among the less casual gamers. Short of cutting down the speed of light, what we can do to help there is pretty limited beyond building out datacenters in physical proximity to anyone who might want to use it.

cwyers 12y ago
Right. The speed of light is a hard limit here. The only way to cut latency is to move closer to the user. The closest you can possibly be to the user is on premise.
- yazaddaruvala 12y ago
  Which to be honest is not a bad idea at all... Imagine playing your PS4 games (rendered and streamed from your PS4) on your MacBook, or any screen connected to your local network? I've wanted this for years. Infact in university I even did all the theoretical design to build myself this server. As is normal, I learnt a lot, couldn't spend enough time to make it work though :(
  - mirashii 12y ago
    Steam has in-home sharing, which is the same idea but PC games. It's actually pretty nice letting the desktop in the other room do the heavy lifting/run windows and playing some of the games on a laptop. I haven't tried any latency sensitive games though, just things like Civilization.
  - sp332 12y ago
    You can do this but only to other Sony-approved devices. Xperia and Vita I think. There is an unofficial app to enable this on more Android devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/ps4-remote-play-android-thread-t3068225 http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/ps4-remot...
wmf 12y ago
Internet latency is around 50% slower than it could be, though: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~singla2/papers/hotnets14.pdf http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~singla2/papers/hotnets14.pdf
theandrewbailey 12y ago
"The speed of light sucks." - John Carmack http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.08/id_pr.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.08/id_pr.html

cwyers 12y ago

Right. The speed of light is a hard limit here. The only way to cut latency is to move closer to the user. The closest you can possibly be to the user is on premise.

yazaddaruvala 12y ago
Which to be honest is not a bad idea at all... Imagine playing your PS4 games (rendered and streamed from your PS4) on your MacBook, or any screen connected to your local network? I've wanted this for years. Infact in university I even did all the theoretical design to build myself this server. As is normal, I learnt a lot, couldn't spend enough time to make it work though :(
- mirashii 12y ago
  Steam has in-home sharing, which is the same idea but PC games. It's actually pretty nice letting the desktop in the other room do the heavy lifting/run windows and playing some of the games on a laptop. I haven't tried any latency sensitive games though, just things like Civilization.
- sp332 12y ago
  You can do this but only to other Sony-approved devices. Xperia and Vita I think. There is an unofficial app to enable this on more Android devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/ps4-remote-play-android-thread-t3068225 http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/ps4-remot...

wmf 12y ago

Internet latency is around 50% slower than it could be, though: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~singla2/papers/hotnets14.pdf http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~singla2/papers/hotnets14.pdf

theandrewbailey 12y ago

"The speed of light sucks." - John Carmack http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.08/id_pr.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.08/id_pr.html