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>>unless our knowledge of physics advances and SoL is no longer a limit

The latency of the human mind is around the same. There are lots of tricks like predicting the future game state that can result in a better user experience.



UI Response time is at most 100 ms [1], as anything more that is very noticeable laggy.

Actual perception times are much lower than that, about 13ms [2]. You can see the difference for yourself by looking at a 30FPS (33ms) and 60FPS (16ms) video [3], and the effect is much greater when you're actually providing the inputs.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-short... [2]: https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0116 [3]: http://www.30vs60fps.com/




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