Google`s new video game platform, Stadia, is completely digital and requires a constant, reliable internet connection to function. One of the issues people immediately bring up with streaming technology is latency--or lag. Everyone who has experienced lag in some capacity knows how frustrating it can be. Will lag be an issue with Stadia?Stadia boss Phil Harrison says he is `absolutely, unequivocally` sure that latency won`t be an issue. `We believe that it`s not just for when the service starts; actually we`ve demonstrated it today,` Harrison told us from San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference where Stadia was announced.Harrison--who formerly held executive-level positions at Sony and Microsoft--added that it was no accident that Google used Doom Eternal to highlight Stadia.`Having a studio with the very, very high threshold of quality and functionality from id; having id on our stage was very purposeful because the way [producer Marty Stratton] tells the story is spot on,` he said. `They were skeptical when we first started talking to them. they were skeptical that a streaming platform could support the level of quality and responsiveness that they needed to deliver on their game experience. What they have delivered with Doom Eternal absolutely demonstrates that.`Harrison went on to say that Google has been able to achieve a low-latency platform because of the investments its made into the infrastructure supporting Stadia.`It`s because of the investments that we are making in the hardware and the fundamental networking fabric in the compression and encoder and the way we transport the bits from our data center to your home,` he said. `There`s probably 100 innovations there that each mean that we can deliver that quality of experience.`Also in the interview, Harrison pointed out that Stadia streams faster than the human body can process the information.`We get the data, the video, from our data center to your eyeball quicker than your eyeball to brain t ...
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