Real-time

Real-time or real time is a term often used to distinguish reporting, depicting, or reacting to events at the same rate and sometimes at the same time as they unfold (see real time (media)), rather than compressing a depiction or delaying a report or action. The term has uses in many areas, and many articles cover different aspects.

Computing

• Real-time computing, subject to a real-time constraint
• Near real-time
• Real-time clock, a clock as normally understood, as distinct from a computer clocking oscillator
• Real-time Control System (RCS), subject to a real-time constraint
• Real-time Programming Language (RPL), a compiled database programming language which expresses work to be done by a particular time

Applications of real-time computing

• Real-time computer graphics
  • Real-time camera system, for controlling cameras in a 3D virtual environment
• Real-time operating system, for running real-time software
• Real-time protection, protection enabled constantly, rather than by, say, a virus scan
• Real-time text, transmitted as it is being typed or produced
• Real time Java, for real-time programs in Java
• Real time disk encryption, encrypting data as it is written to disk
• Real-time web, whereby information is sent to users as it becomes available
• Live streaming, continuously delivering multimedia in real time
• Collaborative real-time editor, simultaneous editing of a document by several users
• Real-time simulation, simulation able to run at the same rate as reality
• Real-time Blackhole List (RBL), a DNS blacklist
• Real-time Cmix, a music programming language
• Real Time AudioSuite, an audio plug-in for Pro Tools

Video gaming

• Real-time game, with continuous play rather than by turn
  • Real-time strategy, a computer game genre of strategic war games
  • Real-time tactics, a computer game genre of tactical war games

Network protocols

• Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), for streaming audio and video
  • RTP Control Protocol or Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), for controlling an RTP flow
• Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), used by Flash for streaming audio and video
• Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for streaming media servers

Other technology

• Real-time locating system, for real-time tracking
• Real-time gross settlement, an online system for settling financial transactions
• Real Time Kinematic (RTK), a satellite navigation technique
• Real-time polymerase chain reaction, providing quantitative results during the process

Other uses

• Real-time data, information that is delivered as it happens
• Real-time business intelligence, delivered as it happens without delay
• Real-time sociolinguistics, method in which data is collected over time
• Real-time transcription, transcription of words as they are spoken

See also

• Time (disambiguation)
• On the fly

Film, television and radio

• Real time (media), where a depiction of events takes the same times as the events, without compression
• "Fox Real Time", a headline update segment on the Fox News Live television program
• Real Time (Doctor Who), a webcast
• Real Time (film), a 2008 film
• Real Time with Bill Maher, a talk show on HBO
• Realtime (radio show), a radio show on CBC 2
• Realtime China, a 30-minute daily news program about China from China Radio International
• Real Time (Italy), an Italian television channel

Game companies

• Realtime Gaming, an company that develops gambling software

Video gaming

• Realtime Associates, an American video game developer
• Realtime Games Software, a former British video game developer
• Realtime Worlds, a Scottish game developer

Literature

• Realtime Interrupt, 1995 novel
• Simulated Real Time, an art and literature project

Music

• Real Time (The Jazztet album), 1986, by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet
• Real Time (Steam album), 1996
• Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album), 2007
• Realtime (Shapeshifter album), 2001
• Realtime (C:Real album)
• Realtime (quartet), a barbershop quartet