about the experiment

One of the biggest disturbances on the internet is lag. It is often associated with a slow internet connection, usually resulting in delays, buffering, pixels and frozen screens. Unfortunately, many have accepted lag as a part of their everyday lives, mainly because they don’t know that there actually is another option. For example, 1000 Mbit/s lag-free broadband via fiber from ume.net.



To demonstrate this, we performed an experiment. During two days, we let four volunteers live with lag, in real life.



To create the lag we used the following equipment:



Oculus Rift development kit - virtual reality display with built-in displays in front of each eye

Raspberry Pi - single-board computer programmed to adjust delay, resolution and buffering

Noise cancelling headphones

Webcam