Get ready for full holograms and 6G while living in the metaverse, says Samsung With 5G adoption on the upswing, Samsung provided a detailed glimpse as to what a 6G world would look like. "We already started 6G research with the commercialization target around 2030," said Sunghyun Choi, corporate senior vice president at Samsung Electronics, during a presentation at the Samsung Developer Conference …
AI/ML as we know it could be useful in choosing how and where to send packets. However, the number of levels in the AI model will directly influence the latency of that decision, as will typical overhead processing, and simple semiconductor switching time. As a user moves around in a big city, they will be approaching, passing, and departing access points/antennae, hence those decisions will have to be made quite frequently. If you are streaming 3D hi-res VR needing that Terabyte per second, can you really do that without hiccoughs? With lots of buffering, you might, but then you won't be in real-time - there will be time deltas among people who are physically close, simply because the routing decisions for them differed. For people far apart, e.g. continents apart, those deltas could be very noticeable - simple speed-of-light will ensure that.
Its all a nice dream, but I expect physics will get in the way.
Oh, and how is your reliability? My understanding is that as semiconductor feature size decreases, overall reliability, especially over the long term, decreases. 10 times as many transistors of 1/10 the size will get, what - 100 times more observable bit corruptions?
It's late in the evening and it's raining. The police lieutenant is still clutching his cold, unfinished stimfee, waiting for the coroner's decision. The blue lights wash over the wet facades of city buildings, and the once-human form lying on the ground. The body is dessicated and charred, the fifth one this week and it's only Wednesday.
The coroner gets up, tired as hell, and turns to the officer. "Yeah, he got a phone call. Bad luck when you're in line of sight of three relays."
The lieutenant nods. Well, at least the forms for this are standardized. That'll make the paperwork easier. "You know, " he says, " they're talking about making 23G use high-energy x-rays."
"Well that'll make my job easier for sure," answers the coroner. "There won't be any body to analyze"
"Right" chuckles the officer. "Okay, you can take him away. Let's get out of this rain."
All right, 5G hasn't finished arriving yet, and they're already touting 6G. What does that mean?
In my crystal ball I see the future where the "G"s follow one another every 4 months, like browser versions, and like browser versions not because they bear any improvements or new features, but only because of the marketing-driven headlong rush to be always newer, shinier, cooler (and incidentally, sell the same stuff all over again).
Soon, communications technologies will have rounded corners. *sigh*
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