Originally Posted by crucifissio

streaming vr at 720p takes around 50mbps...4K would be 10x that...now the average US household has like 10mbps upload...this will be a problem because for the tech to take off you would have to have lots of models from around the world and not just from some parts of the world...also streaming for a few seconds at 50mbps is one thing, but streaming continuously for a longer period of time, without lag or choppy video is completely another...this is not taking in to account the logistics of the VR platform that would have to process 100-s of models streaming at once...

maybe they will solve it with better compression but for now the infrastructure is simply not up to par...