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Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by Veedrac on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:01AM (#10640211)
To all the "lab tech never actually arrives" skeptics, it's worth noting that 12 years ago this was a thing:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0318_030318_...

In my opinion, expect to see VR as the first consumer device to pick this up - it's too bandwidth limited for today's wireless and sorely wants not to be.

Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by motosynthesis on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:46AM (#10640818)
Guys, Guys, for Internet to work packets must be sent and received. How is the sending part going to work?
Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by onion2k on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:29AM (#10640365)
Why does VR need more bandwidth? Surely it's just a video feed in and some telemetry data out. Isn't latency more of a problem?
Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by moogly on Saturday November 28, 2015 @04:28AM (#10640601)
First of all, you need a lot higher refresh rates, because you tie in your ocular-vestibular system which is very sensitive, compared to the visual feedback required to be comfortable sitting in front of a monitor. It's still unclear where the upper limit is, but the lower is probably at least 120 Hz. The consumer devices being released soon are running at 90 Hz, and that's the bare minimum. I've heard "1000 Hz" coming out of Michael Abrash's mouth, but that was somewhat of a hypothetical number.

Secondly, higher resolution. You'll want at least 4K in the near future, because with a lower resolution display that close to your eyes, you'll discern individual pixels and the actual space between them (causing the infamous "screen door effect").

Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by Veedrac on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:03AM (#10640951)
Even further, strict latency requirements on an already-busy system prevent you from doing any interesting compression.
Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by loxs on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:54AM (#10640411)
My experience is with Occulus. Full HD is not enough as you clearly see the pixels. I was so distracted by the "low" resolution that I couldn't immerse myself at all.

Probably 4K will be better, but I suspect it still won't be enough

Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by hengheng on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:39AM (#10641015)
Those Codecs that compress video well have considerable latency. Raw video out has been the single signal with the highest bandwidth in almost every computer.