Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it whenever input latency comes up, as the demonstration that people can perceive touch delay down to 1 ms.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Microsoft Research

Topic

touch input latency

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yes there is. Humans are normally not very responsive to the time between when an action is started and when it is carried out on the screen, but this changes for actions like drawing and dragging. This is the reason for the new Pro Motion …

• It can be very detectable, I'd say. Try watching this: [VIDEO] It shows the difference between from >100ms to ~1ms. It's mind baffling.

• I'm taking issue with latency in general and it's dismissal. There are reams of ergonomic targets, data, and guides on user interface latency that are just completely ignored these days. A terminal is close to the simplest possible interface whose job is to provide input …