How much latency can live musicians tolerate?

The quick answer: about 20 milliseconds.

Given that we are lucky enough to have two co-founders — Ryan (shown above) and Fred — that have also trained as professional musicians, we wanted to test for ourselves the amount of…

The Theoretical Limits of Video Conferencing

This image is of me looking into one end of a system we built to explore the question of just how well conventional video conferencing can be made. We used a two-way mirror to allow us to mount a high-quality camera behind a glass surface on which you…

Avatar Interaction: Ryan the stylist, Emily the client

Bringing the Avatar to life

A key part of our research direction at High Fidelity is to breathe life into the avatar, by capturing data on movement, facial, and gaze information from as many channels or devices as we can and streaming this data, along with very high quality audio, at low latency and high…