Facebook has invented its own measure of time, dubbed 'flicks', defined as 1/705,600,000 of a second or about 1.42 nanoseconds. It aims to give CGI artists and code writers the tools to make sure ...
Engineers at Oculus, Facebook's virtual reality division, have invented a new unit of time. No, we are not kidding. For what possible purpose, you ask? Called a flick (frame-tick), the new time ...
Facebook has devised a new time unit called the flick. Flick is a portmanteau word for frame-tick and is the smallest unit of time which is larger than a nanosecond. Amounting to 1/705600000 of a ...