A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
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would make for a beautiful realisation
"how petty our differences become, when we realize we all use the same butt"
It would also be really cool if there was some kind of live translation that let people talk to each other in their native languages.
I wonder what the resolution and frame rate is too?
Article was lacking technical detail.
There’s no audio. Webcam quality isn’t a pretty bad, maybe 720p with lots of compression artifacts. It’s not a 4k screen, reminds me of digital signage used for highway billboards.
It’s still entertaining but every time I see it I long for 8k and a gigabit uplink.
Locations: https://www.portals.org/portals
(I don't know Dublin well enough to tell if any of them are of the Dublin side.)
Doesn't look like it.
Seems you might be thinking of a specific building instead
It had a steam punky kind of look.
In reality it's probably even faster since neither side is dealing with Wi-Fi.
Dublin is about 10-50 times further from NY than you are from that datacenter, and the speed of light is a universal limit.
If so, I don't see how this is any different. If not, that's a pretty narrow definition of realtime given the context.
If we talk about medical equipment, it may be very different based on the equipment.
Real time OSs advertise maximum guaranteed latencies. 0 latency does not exist in the physical world, the speed of light can’t be convinced to hurry up, unfortunately.
Latency will be far more than that due to speed of light.
My mpeg vision circuits are about 480ms end to end from Washington/New York to London. The j2k ones are faster but still in the 200ms range. In theory you could get it down to sub 100ms but at that point you are certainly having to engineer your paths correctly and use barely any compression.
Uncompressed 4k is in the 10gbit range. My uhd jxs bitrates are about 1.3gbit but wouldn’t deliver sub 200 across the pond.
1/30th of 1s is almost exactly the round-trip time from NYC to Dublin (Wolfram Alpha says 17ms one-way).
Assuming travel across the earth surface, light in a vacuum take about 14ms to cross the distances. Times two for round trip that’s about 1/30 s.
Of course we don’t have anywhere near ideal conditions there (at a minimum, light in fiber is already slower, closer to 40ms round trip in that case, and of course network infrastructure adds orders of magnitude), but it’s a good limit.
In the meantime, this seems cool!
Dublin’s rising global prominence probably has more to do with Ireland’s rather business-friendly taxation policies.