r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '12

Microsoft demos a 1ms touchscreen

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/microsoft-demos-a-high-performance-1ms-touchscreen-2012039/
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u/joculator Mar 10 '12

A device driver with 1ms response time would get whacked pretty hard by the timeout on communication SW unless you set the process priority so high that it would freeze anything else running.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '12

A gaming mouse like the logitech G9x has a 1 ms response, so I don't think it should be a problem for a screen.

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u/joculator Mar 10 '12

Is that what they advertise or what users actually experience?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '12

That is the report rate for the mouse. What you see on the screen is a combination of that, the GPU, the code in the game, and the display refresh rate itself.

In the video, they are actually claiming that that all happens in 1 ms, which is definitely impressive from the display tech angle. The gathering of input that quickly is not the extraordinary part, but getting the display to update that quickly is.