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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
#62SecretNYC (and all their secret sub brands, one per major city) always sussed me out a bit. They seem to just be blogs about events, but they also host their own, very templated events, like the Van Gogh immersive exhibits and the Candlelight Concerts (among others). They do this in every city and advertise the fuck out of them, which makes them seem more hollow when you see the scale of their enterprise from a 300ft view...
Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP is correct, 1/30 s is a good ballpark theoretical lower bound. Assuming travel across the earth surface, light in a vacuum take about 14ms to cross the distances. Times two for round trip that’s about 1/30 s. Of course we don’t have anywhere near ideal conditions there (at a minimum, light in fiber is already slower, closer to 40ms round trip in that case, and of course network infrastructure adds orders of magnit…
You don’t need round trip with live video, you can push frames in UDP packets from both sides.
I was thinking more about the rtt to do something in new york and see the reaction of the person in Dublin, which would probably be the major indicator of latency.
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#64Super 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.
My thought was a circle/semicircle with portals on the outside angled such that other portals are not in the backgrounds of the video.
Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
#65An artist set something similar up between NYC and London in 2008 — was always fun to walk by. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/arts/design/21tele.html
That's exactly what I thought of. It's cool but it's been done. The telectroscope had a fun story too.
Re: A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
#66An artist set something similar up between NYC and London in 2008 — was always fun to walk by. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/arts/design/21tele.html
I remember that one too. Fulton st landing.
It had a steam punky kind of look.