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A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by Aaronstotle »

delfinom wrote: post #11
Aaronstotle wrote: post #2

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

Americans & Brits making fun of each other through a portal would be pretty neat haha

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by bagels »

crazygringo wrote: post #12
IncreasePosts wrote: post #9

I 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.

It doesn't say what technology is used, does it? Could be using wifi, or cell networks.

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by chgs »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #9

I 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+

Why 1/30th?

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.

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by chgs »

a_paddy wrote: post #7
hderms wrote: post #3

is Dublin becoming more of a cultural center since Brexit?

Brexit? The British left Dublin 102 years ago.

As in since the U.K. shot itself in the foot more effort is being spent on an English speaking country in Europe at the expense of an English speaking country in its own.

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by dylan604 »

crazygringo wrote: post #10

Why 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.)

"A sculpture known as The Portal is heading to NYC’s Flatiron neighborhood"

Seems you might be thinking of a specific building instead

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Reminds me of the Shared Studios containers, except those have audio [1]. Funnily enough, that also started as a project called Portal (between New York and Tehran) [2].

[1] https://www.sharedstudios.com/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portals_(initiative)

Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

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Post by anyfoo »

crazygringo wrote: post #10

Why 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.)

Presumably because they are of a previous location of the art’s installation. The article is written in future tense, so it stands to reason that there are no (interesting) pictures of the new installation yet.
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