The test results indicate that VC-COLLIDE can complete all the collision checks within 1/20th of a second, the upper bound of real-time refresh time in the three testing environments.
"Real-time refreshing of the image is now manageable," says V. Michael Bove Jr., director of MIT's Consumer Electronics Laboratory. "And there's plenty of synthetic content for things like gaming".
Twitter has been experimenting with real-time refreshing of search on its new widget, but the main search product still requires a manual refresh.
In order to work correctly, these apps have to get browsers to do things they were never designed to do, like send data back and forth in near real time and refresh only certain parts of a page.
Another early customer is RealCrowd, a crowdsourced real-estate funding site where it's important to see updated information in real time without refreshing.
I was with a group of young children recently and observed their feedback and it was real time and refreshing between them.
The reflection of the laser on the spatial light modulator generates multiple diffracted traps that can be moved in three dimensions and real time by refreshing the hologram at a frequency of 30 Hz, as previously described.
The news feed will also begin updating in real time without page refreshes.
Some early clients include OfficePools, a fantasy hockey tool in Canada where they take their hockey seriously and want their scores in real time without having to refresh.
In a soon-to-be-released update, the charts and graphs Lucky Sort offers will refresh in real time as new data comes in, but at the moment, users will have to manually refresh the data by clicking a button.
When people "Like" or add comments to status updates, they will show up in real time, eliminating the need to refresh the post to view new comments and Likes.
