LG and Razer made an ultra-responsive Bluetooth controller for cloud gaming

LG has teamed up with Razer and MediaTek to make a caller Bluetooth gaming controller that could greatly trim the input lag for cloud-based gaming. According to LG, it’s the archetypal controller to utilize Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Bluetooth exertion — an in-development standard that aims to marque wireless controllers arsenic responsive arsenic their wired counterparts.

The BT ULL-enabled controller was compared against a non-specified “standard controller” at LG’s webOS Summit lawsuit connected Friday. “The objection highlighted the superior responsiveness, reduced input lag and power precision of the BT ULL exertion crossed assorted cloud-based games, including FPS, warring and racing titles,” LG said successful its newsroom post.

Input lag connected Bluetooth controllers tin alteration by exemplary and biology factors, but thing beneath 10-20 milliseconds is preferred. Wired controllers typically person a little input latency which makes them appealing to competitory gamers. Razer’s caller ULL Bluetooth gaming controller was supposedly demonstrated with a “game-changing 1ms input lag.”

Google erstwhile tried to lick controller input latency issues with its Stadia service, enabling the controller to link straight implicit Wi-Fi to Google’s datacenters. This allowed Google to debar the added Bluetooth latency. After Google shuttered its Stadia service past twelvemonth the institution released an update to alteration Bluetooth connected its Stadia controllers for usage connected PCs, Macs, phones, and different devices.

Bluetooth ULL enactment is being built into prime LG 120Hz OLED and mini-LED TVs that usage MediaTek’s MT7921 WiFi chipset, which are scheduled to motorboat successful 2025. LG is besides readying to present a certification for third-party ULL-supported controllers to guarantee they “work seamlessly with LG webOS astute TVs,” with Razer being the archetypal institution to qualify.

There’s nary price, merchandise date, oregon adjacent an authoritative sanction associated with the caller Razer controller yet, truthful it whitethorn instrumentality immoderate clip earlier it’s really disposable for consumers to buy. We whitethorn get immoderate further details connected some the controller and LG’s ULL-supported TVs astatine the upcoming CES, which is taking spot betwixt January 7th-10th.