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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 anyfoo »

trey-jones wrote: post #18
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 wonder the same. I already take issue with the use of "realtime" in the marketing material.

Realtime means different things in different contexts. If I can watch a webcam of freeway traffic, than 5 seconds delay is, for all intents and purposes, realtime.

If we talk about medical equipment, it may be very different based on the equipment.

Real time OSs advertise maximum guaranteed latencies. 0 latency does not exist in the physical world, the speed of light can’t be convinced to hurry up, unfortunately.

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

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Post by futureshock »

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.)

It’s because the photos are of an existing Portal installation in Lublin, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania. Lublin is my city and this thing has been running for a few years now. Everyone loves waving at it and seeing if anyone on the other side waves back. It’s quite silly but also rather touching.

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

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Post by jareklupinski »

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

> countries with tensions, people will start mooning the portal

would make for a beautiful realisation

"how petty our differences become, when we realize we all use the same butt"

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

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Post by vundercind »

anyfoo wrote: post #39
janalsncm wrote: post #34

Super cool! I would love to see a ring of these leading to all different countries. Really interesting way to connect countries together.

That would be fun. How do you imagine the “ring”? A huge part of the appeal is that both sides can see each other.

You could ask someone in Dublin to pass on a message, walk over to the portal coming from the “other side”, and maybe receive your message back from someone in Japan or something :-)

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

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Post by futureshock »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #19

Does it do audio too? I wonder what the resolution and frame rate is too? Article was lacking technical detail.

We have one in Lublin, PL for the past several years. I’m not sure if ours will be moved or if they are building a new pair.

There’s no audio. Webcam quality isn’t a pretty bad, maybe 720p with lots of compression artifacts. It’s not a 4k screen, reminds me of digital signage used for highway billboards.

It’s still entertaining but every time I see it I long for 8k and a gigabit uplink.

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

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Post by boopmaster »

anyfoo wrote: post #39
janalsncm wrote: post #34

Super cool! I would love to see a ring of these leading to all different countries. Really interesting way to connect countries together.

That would be fun. How do you imagine the “ring”? A huge part of the appeal is that both sides can see each other.

Not the op, but I could imagine a series of portals in a circle formation at each site; maybe like 12 or 13 simulcast connections would be insane.

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

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Post by bagels »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #33
bagels wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wired, using the subsea fiber cables, your still stuck at a 60 ms RTT minimum from NYC to Dublin. Add in video transcoding time and a more realistic estimate of the networks on either side, and you're looking at latency closer to 200-400 ms. WiFi over this distance actually isn't a significant contributor to latency.

Where does it say it's using a wired connection? Agree that the latency from the distance is going to be a big factor.

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

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Post by futureshock »

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+

Imagine a transatlantic Zoom call off your laptop camera and home wifi. Not great. I have seen this Portal in person.
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