"Negative Latency"
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,153 words · ~5 min read
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it's a beautiful day for tech news i'm guessing because i haven't seen the
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sun in months google stadia will apparently overcome the lag associated
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with streaming games by achieving something called negative latency
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i guess stadius vp okay we got a heckle from upstairs
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stadius vp of engineering majbakar even told edge magazine that in a year or two
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games on stadia will run faster and feel more responsive than games being run
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locally and no it won't even involve a time warp
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crystal stadia will apparently achieve this through a combination of incredibly
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powerful harbor and its data centers which will run games at incredibly high
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frame rates and by using ai to predict user inputs now everybody's been
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trashing this negative latency thing online because negative latency would
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literally mean that you see the results of your actions before you even do them
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but as one computer engineer pointed out what the stadia rep means is is probably
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something like branch prediction a common technique used to processors it
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just remains to be seen how well this technique will work when applied to
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fast-paced combat in triple a games
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my guess not very well
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google is widely expected to reveal the pixel 4 on tuesday and now we're pretty
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sure they'll be revealing something else as well thanks to nine to five google
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leaking extensive photos and videos of
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the device the pixelbook go is apparently google's next flagship chrome
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os device they rename these things every year
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it's a clamshell laptop this time as opposed to last year's pixel slate
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tablet and what was it the year before that
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who cared no one cared every time that's
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it's got a 13.3 inch 4k display two usb
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c ports and a 3.5 millimeter headphone
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jack what are those but more importantly the bottom of the device has a ribbed
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texture presumably to make it look a little less like a google version of
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apple's white plastic macbook from 2004 or whatever that thing was i had one of
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those this one's different you did yeah it was great the pixelbook go will
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reportedly run an Intel core i7 CPU 16
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gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage but we'll get all the real
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details next week because we're going to be there baby at
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the launch stop wasting your time right now don't listen to this
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the future and valve has announced a new feature
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coming to steam soon called remote play
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together it will allow gamers who aren't
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physically together to play local multiplayer together as if they were
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together you get it the idea is this if you
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didn't get it say i've got a game with split screen co-op but riley doesn't
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because he's cheap and he's waiting for it to appear on a steam sale i launch
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the game then i invite riley to play then he controls a virtual local player
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on my machine and the game streams from my rig to his so we can both play
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wow you'll play with me this is a hypothetical while the feature could
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ensure that couch co-op games get played more often it could also discourage
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people from actually coming over to play real couch co-op and then
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who's gonna eat the party size pretzel mix that i've been saving
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just kidding it's gone now it's time for the quick brits brought to you by
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at the link below all right you're back time for the quick
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bits oneplus has yet again launched another phone in the middle of the year
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the oneplus 7t pro but unlike the 7t which launched as a
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paired down version of the oneplus 7 the 7t pro is actually an upgraded version
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of the 7 pro
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it's got a snapdragon 855 plus but you know what
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who cares because it's not coming to north america anyway and north america
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is the only part of the world that i've ever heard of so that's pretty
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close-minded jane at least it's three countries and not one adobe has changed
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course like a boat and we'll refund venezuelan customers
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after the company previously announced that they'd be canceling their creative
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cloud subscriptions adobe originally said that they wouldn't give refunds
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because trump's executive order required the cessation of all business activity
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which is a pretty sweet excuse although it doesn't seem like that plan was even
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really targeted at regular venezuelans but rather to the country's government
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also behance is still available so yes
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behance away
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images have leaked of a zotac gtx 1660 super and according to video cards we'll
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be seeing the launch of this GPU alongside the gtx 1650 ti on tuesday
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october 22nd tuesday i guess the 1650
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is just below the threshold for being cool enough to get a super variant
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sorry sidekick status AMD doesn't have any graphics hardware
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on the market right now with ray tracing capability but if
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industry sources are correct there has actually been ray tracing software
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support in radian drivers since july and we might see it publicly released in
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december ah i can imagine each one of
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those beautiful 14 raid traced frames per second that a radius 7 will put out
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glorious ryzen fans have been waiting for so long
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for AMD to release the value-oriented b550 chipset in motherboards and now
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eagle-eyed redditors have spotted one in a cyberpower pre-built pc available at
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bus buy of all things that lines up with previous rumors claiming that we'll see
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a board in pre-built which also claimed that we won't get standalone desktop
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boards until 2020. so hold on bang for buckers
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uh that doesn't sound right that sounds weird
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and it's not right to continue this episode either so
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it's time to stop
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come back monday and tuesday and wednesday
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that's enough for this week yeah you can keep talking if you want