This is neat, I hope one day similar structures are placed in cities around the globe, and it helps ease tension that builds so easily online.
Yea...if it's countries with tensions, people will start mooning the portal and worse hahaha
A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
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#12I wonder what the latency is going to be on this. It needs to be at least 1/30th of a second round trip but I suspect the actual latency is going to be more like 1s+
I don't know why it would be any different from a Zoom call.
In reality it's probably even faster since neither side is dealing with Wi-Fi.
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#13is Dublin becoming more of a cultural center since Brexit?
Ehhh I wouldn’t think it’d make a significant difference on its own. London is what it is (was what it was?) because of centuries of English imperial hegemony, not just because it’s English-speaking. Berliners speak the global lingua franca virtually just as well and - with no slight intended to the Irish - their city is a much more natural fit as the new European cosmopolitan cultural Mecca.
Dublin’s rising global prominence probably has more to do with Ireland’s rather business-friendly taxation policies.
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#14Why are none of the photos actually of Flatiron? (I don't know Dublin well enough to tell if any of them are of the Dublin side.)
> (I don't know Dublin well enough to tell if any of them are of the Dublin side.)
Doesn't look like it.
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#15Why are none of the photos actually of Flatiron? (I don't know Dublin well enough to tell if any of them are of the Dublin side.)
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#16there are portals ...
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#17Needs gesture recognition to trigger Stargate portal easter egg, https://youtube.com/watch?v=0WvN3Ji-xIQ
Locations: https://www.portals.org/portals
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#18I wonder what the latency is going to be on this. It needs to be at least 1/30th of a second round trip but I suspect the actual latency is going to be more like 1s+
I wonder the same. I already take issue with the use of "realtime" in the marketing material.
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#19Does it do audio too?
I wonder what the resolution and frame rate is too?
Article was lacking technical detail.
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#20This is neat, I hope one day similar structures are placed in cities around the globe, and it helps ease tension that builds so easily online.
Yea...if it's countries with tensions, people will start mooning the portal and worse hahaha
I believe there’s precedent for Americans mooning Austrailia.