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With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: When most people think of 5G, they're envisioning an ultra-fast, high-bandwidth connection that lets you download seasons of your favorite shows in minutes. But 5G's possibilities go way beyond that, potentially reinventing how we watch video, and opening up a mess of privacy uncertainties. "Right now you make a video much the same way you did for TV," Dan Garraway, co-founder of interactive video company Wirewax, said in an interview this month. "The dramatic thing is when you turn video into a two-way conversation. Your audience is touching and interacting inside the experience and making things happen as a result."
The personalized horror flick or tailored rom-com? They would hinge on interactive video layers that use emotional analysis based on your phone's front-facing camera to adjust what you're watching in real time. You may think it's far-fetched, but one of key traits of 5G is an ultra-responsive connection with virtually no lag, meaning the network and systems would be fast enough to react to your physical responses. 5G is on the cusp of reality, with the first compatible smartphones set to debut next year.
The personalized horror flick or tailored rom-com? They would hinge on interactive video layers that use emotional analysis based on your phone's front-facing camera to adjust what you're watching in real time. You may think it's far-fetched, but one of key traits of 5G is an ultra-responsive connection with virtually no lag, meaning the network and systems would be fast enough to react to your physical responses. 5G is on the cusp of reality, with the first compatible smartphones set to debut next year.
I'm paying you to entertain me, so bloody get on with it.
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How is a low-level data transmission technology in any way related to specific high-level application "features"?
Will the standard comittee "i.p." the technology, and only license it to manufacturers that make devices with screens and cameras, and force usage of only specific software on them that only supports downloading videos while watching them (and afterwards forgetting where it downloaded them) (aka "streamin"), if the user is spied on too??
That sounds more than silly.
How would a 5G tower even check that? Or care...
The whole thing is batshit insane. Full locked section of thmental hostpital level!
I wish I had mod points! 5G is just a connection standard. In theory 5G connection speeds might be enough to support a new video technology with big brother watching video of you, but at this point it's all FUD
It's already possible with 4G LTE and people are doing it now. LTE had huge latency improvements over 3G.
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