http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/ Engadget Comments for Ben Heck's Xbox 360 Controller Monitor lights up your latency http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 27th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/He's probably so rich right now.

*buying one for my kid*]]>Mar 26th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 27th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
I'm quite in to tech and all but don't see a real practical use, please explain this better if anyone has a clue, thanks.]]>Mar 26th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
Videotape it next to your screen, calculate the difference of time between the moment the LED lights up and the moment where something happens, and you got your latency. Latency is as all FPS players know a huge problem if it gets too high and monitoring it might be useful to take account of controller lag when you play against bots.]]>Mar 26th 2009 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/I'll have to dig it out of the old mod trunk, er cardboard box...]]>Mar 26th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
Any serious company that is using this to test their games gets a -1 from me.]]>Mar 26th 2009 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 26th 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
And for the record, the companies that are really serious about user experience have been doing this for a long time, with a number of different methods. We count frames so you don't have a 6 frame delay where it's really important and maybe we can get that down to 3. It's not something that you can easily even feel--it's just "off" for some reason, and that reason can be input lag.]]>Mar 27th 2009 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 27th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/Mar 27th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
When it is said that this device is used for measuring latency, they mean that it is used as a zero point reference. You can not easily monitor the pressing of a button by videotaping the hands of a player for several reasons (obscuring the image with their hands, a vague definition of how depressed the button must be etc). This board (which as is stated in the video is made larger for easy filming), is not designed to measure the controller latency... that would be pointless, if such a device existed once a single test was done (or a few) the values found could be shared with all.

Instead this board is set up beside a screen displaying the game. Let's say that, for example, the melee feels a little bit slow in your FPS de jour, as a play tester, it is one thing to say this... but for the developers to actually see the delay... ie. watch the video frame by frame and see how many frames after the melee button (B, stick click etc) before the animation is started in the program. In fact, with a diagnostics screen open it could be even more accurate... instead of looking for the start of the animation, they can look for when the animation actually starts.

The delay of the controller due to its wireless nature is a limitation that programmers can't really get around, but stiff/sticky controls that are the results of many layers of code from intput to animation can be improved... and I'm all for it!]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ben-hecks-xbox-360-controller-monitor-lights-up-your-latency/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGW2uA9iXw

These types of devices are very necessary. I'm glad Ben Heck made this device.
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