Anyone Can Be a Pool Shark When This Projector Calls the Shots

syndicate is round-eyed if you know your geometry . And physics . And have good manus - centre coordination . And while none of those seem that hard on their own , they can be a short tough to put together . But with a niggling assistance from tech , it becomes as easygoing as just keeping your eyes open .

PoolLiveAid is a project by Luis Sousa , Ricardo Alves , and J.M.F Rodrigues of University of the Algarve , Portugal . And with its on - the - fly plot processing , it aims to make sinking feeling balls and much an afterthought for even the most inexpert players . Making use of a cap mounted photographic camera , the system reads in the borders of the board , locating of the pool cue ballock , and angle of the pool cue to make the form of calculations a real shark makes in his head . Then , it spits out the likely way on the table with a projector .

There ’s still room to mess up , of row . If you smack that formal at the bottom it ’s still pass to go flying off the table and an overhead photographic camera will have a gruelling time predicting that . Not to mention complex shots need to account for a few unlike balls . Still , something like this would totally take the trajectory guesswork out of the secret plan for in particular novice peg - wielders and flight - visualiser . right on now the project is just a genus Beta for a league , but hey , peradventure we can get a Google Glass app someday . [ h / tReddit ]