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		tus88 on Nov 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Google Stadia is not a product that exists becaus... 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.

gowld on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

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.

acchow on Nov 20, 2019 | [–]

What about latency to inputting some command on your controller? Like "move to here".

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