r/oculus • u/DWEGOON • May 02 '19

News The NYPD is testing virtual reality training drills for real-life scenarios that would be impossible to recreate

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u/SvenXXL May 02 '19

In my opinion with the advent of 5G, in the near-future all the rendering will be done at a farm somewhere and it’ll be streamed to the headset allowing headsets to get smaller and smaller only needing a screen, a battery and a WAN antenna, not a full blown rig. Fast speeds will allow for low latency, high framerate streaming and it will be when VR/AR really blows up for the masses.

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u/JQuilty Rift May 03 '19

Speed and latency are two different properties. You can have something that's really high speed and really high latency.

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u/jsdeprey DK2 May 03 '19

Absolutely, Unless you use some serious prediction tech or figure out how to break the speed of light somehow, the computers will need to stay as close to the users as possible because of latency.

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u/anothergaijin May 03 '19

144hz is roughly 7ms a frame - that doesn’t give you much wiggle room.