Whenever some video or GIF of the AR Sandbox gets exposure on social media, there's a lot of (wrong) speculation about its latency, or good advice on how I should learn programming and optimize my slow code. :)
So here's the reason behind the AR Sandbox's default 1s topography update delay, explained once and for all.
More information:
http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox
http://arsandbox.org
