Companies tend not to issue press releases on the first day of April, for obvious reasons. If UK-based CDN software house Velocix had sent its announcement to press just a few hours earlier, we might have been calling ‘April Fools’ on its ultra-low latency video streaming update ahead of the imminent NAB Show 2024. Latency has a tendency to be the focus of April Fools gaffs. We ran a tongue-in-cheek April Fools hoax from US low-latency streaming specialist Red5 Pro back in 2021, when a social media post legitimately fooled a few bystanders into believing it had submitted a patent for a quantum computing network that had broken the laws of physics by achieving negative latency streaming. The fictional result…