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by rtkwe 1352 days ago
The only thing that really comes to mind is we could go to fiber core for crazy data speeds but those are so delicate I don't think the improvement would be worth the hassle unless we have a big improvement there.
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I think C could easily adopt a fiber, there's the "tongue" bit in the middle of the socket, and empty space in the middle of the plug, could easily have a fiber run down the middle there.
There are literally USB-C cables with fiber cores, right now... on the market.

A USB-C cable with fiber core is what Oculus Go suggested to connect to a PC.

Those use a converter in the cable itself though right?
The difficulty isn't in fitting the physical fiber, they're tiny, it's in the delicacy of highspeed fiber optics.