{"video_id":"UWeMWIoUWQA","title":"Latency as Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":380,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":6.44,"text":"these days we become used to instant gratification whether it's ordering at a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.4,"end_s":11.16,"text":"drive-thru looking up incredibly important information on the connected","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.599,"end_s":18.08,"text":"computer in your pocket or gaming with someone on the other side of the planet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.36,"end_s":20.08,"text":"we expect lots of things to happen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.08,"end_s":26.72,"text":"instantaneously but as much as our technology has advanced we're still","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.8,"end_s":28.96,"text":"fighting the dreaded problem of 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free for 30 days Audible has an unmatched selection of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":318.68,"end_s":325.36,"text":"Audi books which are great to listen to when you're stuck in traffic on the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":322.72,"end_s":329.72,"text":"train running errands playing games that you don't need to listen to the audio to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.039,"end_s":334.199,"text":"or whatever else you happen to be doing I've personally been listening to the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":331.199,"end_s":336.44,"text":"princess diarist by Carrie fiser a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.199,"end_s":341.759,"text":"behindth scenes recollection of her experiences filming Star Wars Episodes 4","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.28,"end_s":346.84,"text":"from Princess Leia herself and audible is offering a free Audi book with your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":344.199,"end_s":352.52,"text":"trial to you so you can listen to it too just go to audible.com tequ sign up","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":349.96,"end_s":356.199,"text":"download a free title maybe that one and start listening it's that easy all right","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.84,"end_s":362.8,"text":"guys like it if you liked it disliked if you disliked it check out our other channel Channel Super Fun or even lonus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":360.24,"end_s":367.199,"text":"Tech tips we do some we do some funny gags and gaffs and memes over there uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.479,"end_s":371.44,"text":"if you want to get subscribed that would be awesome if you want to go down below","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.68,"end_s":375.84,"text":"and give us a suggestion for a different Techquickie that we could make maybe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":373.36,"end_s":381.12,"text":"something on the the history of something you're interested in leave","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":377.68,"end_s":381.12,"text":"that down below I'll see you next time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"these days we become used to instant gratification whether it's ordering at a drive-thru looking up incredibly important information on the connected computer in your pocket or gaming with someone on the other side of the planet we expect lots of things to happen instantaneously but as much as our technology has advanced we're still fighting the dreaded problem of latency and no I'm not talking about your repressed Freud and desires what I mean by latency is the gap in time between some kind of input like a key press or turning your head in a VR headset and the system spitting out the appropriate response and this latency affects the way that you use tons of things in the real world but why don't electricity and radio waves travel super fast well yes they do in fact radio waves travel at the speed of light while electricity traveling through wire can go up to nearly the speed of light but the issue isn't with how quickly a signal goes from A to B instead latency is caused by processing times and since any kind of input to a computer has to be processed everything has at least some amount of latency this can be very noticeable in situations where a slow hard drive causes doing something simple like finding a picture on your computer to be agon singly slow or when a web page is designed poorly and you can't click on anything for a few seconds while it finishes rendering you've also probably noticed latency if uh well if you've ever watched an interview via satellite on a news channel where the subject takes a few seconds to start responding to the reporters questions often these kinds of latency won't completely screw up what you're trying to do I mean waiting an extra 15 seconds to look at that TPS report probably won't ruin your day but latency can be an absolute killer in other situations if you enjoy playing games online high Network latencies caused by processing at each point in the network can cause weird laggy behavior that can result in catastrophic in-game mishaps or even getting kicked off The Game Server completely you can learn more about latency in games up here and believe it or not the consequence of high latency can be even worse than getting fragged in csgo with car manufacturers increasingly installing backup cameras and some cars even completely ditching mirrors in favor of cameras such as this BMW I8 we were checking out last year and I'm wearing a lavalier microphone on me that will give you guys an exact idea of how how much delay there is between something happening and what's on the screen low latency is a must so that drivers can react to hazards in time even half a second delay could lead to a tragic accident so how do you cut down on latency other than just having a faster computer well in Computing context a common tactic is to use wires where possible instead of going Wireless a good example of this is how current VR headsets like the Rift and the HTC Vive rely on wired connections to a PC although these wires are cumbersome wireless tech typically has greater latency due to more complicated processing which could mean disorienting or nauseating display lag when you're in a virtual world this is sometimes called motion to Photon latency and if you're gaming online and you have a choice of servers pick the one geographically closest to you although electrical signals travel insanely quickly latency of a few hundred milliseconds can still be an issue when you're connecting to a farway server and that's enough to wreck your gaming experience in most cases there's also software and even special network adapters that push through data packets from your game before others so they won't be stuck waiting around for other application on your system some routers can even be configured to push packets to your system first to reduce latency if a few people on your network are rudely deciding that now is the time that they have to watch that episode on Netflix now of course you're never going to get rid of latency completely I mean there's even eye to brain latency since your brain needs time to make sense of whatever the heck you're looking at the goal is to get it down to an acceptable level that won't leave you frustrated or with a lawsuit on your hands because your backup camera didn't show you that little old lady in time we've teamed up with Audible and they're offering everyone watching this video a chance to try them out for free for 30 days Audible has an unmatched selection of Audi books which are great to listen to when you're stuck in traffic on the train running errands playing games that you don't need to listen to the audio to or whatever else you happen to be doing I've personally been listening to the princess diarist by Carrie fiser a behindth scenes recollection of her experiences filming Star Wars Episodes 4 from Princess Leia herself and audible is offering a free Audi book with your trial to you so you can listen to it too just go to audible.com tequ sign up download a free title maybe that one and start listening it's that easy all right guys like it if you liked it disliked if you disliked it check out our other channel Channel Super Fun or even lonus Tech tips we do some we do some funny gags and gaffs and memes over there uh if you want to get subscribed that would be awesome if you want to go down below and give us a suggestion for a different Techquickie that we could make maybe something on the the history of something you're interested in leave that down below I'll see you next time"}