{"id":63799,"date":"2014-04-29T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63799"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T07:32:55","slug":"internet-lag-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63799-internet-lag-in-real-life","title":{"rendered":"Internet lag, in real life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you had to deal with real-world lag?<\/p>\n<p>UmeNet, a fibre broadband provider, got four volunteers to wear Oculus Rift headsets which had been calibrated to deliver visual lag &#8211; and then set them loose on the world.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the experiment was to show the effects of poor internet speed on our digital lives.<\/p>\n<p>The test subjects tried dancing, ping-pong, bowling, and cooking with the headset on, and all failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>Watch them in action, below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fNp37zFn9Q?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2014\/04\/28\/what-lag-looks-like-in-reality-with-oculus-rift\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63723-the-great-empires-of-eve-online-the-book.html\">The Great Empires of Eve Online \u2013 the book<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/63665-digital-gaming-deals-this-week-5.html\">Digital gaming deals this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63759-dark-souls-2-pc-performance-issues-pop-up.html\">Dark Souls 2 PC performance issues pop up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If our lives were governed by our internet speed, we might end up looking like this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2378,1452,6049],"class_list":["post-63799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-internet","tag-lag","tag-oculus-rift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63805,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63799\/revisions\/63805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}