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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by tus88 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:46PM (#21579166)
It's actually neither bandwidth nor latency (alone). Its variability - the reason you can play a 4k video on YouTube smoothly is because of buffering, which smooths out dips in mbps. Stadia can't buffer for obvious reasons, meaning every frame has to be delivered with minimal latency.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by gowld on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:11PM (#21580521)
I don't know what Stadia does, but it could

* downsample when connection is poor * extrapolate future frames from past frames, either locally or by sending bonus frames from server.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by acchow on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:41PM (#21580657)
What about latency to inputting some command on your controller? Like "move to here".
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