To do so, they re employing some pretty cool toys.
Qualcomm, Ericsson and T-Mobile are investigating how speedy 5G connections might be used to pilot remote control cars and drones. Their goal is to prove that 5G technologies are fast enough to make pilots feel like they re actually sitting inside the toys they re steering.
What they re targeting is latency the time it takes for a drone to send a video of what it sees to the virtual reality goggles being worn by its pilot, and then the time it takes for that pilot s reactions to be sent back to the drone. Such calculations are measured in milliseconds. [Ed. note: To our American readers there are 1,000 milliseconds (ms) in every 1 second.]