Queens University has build a pool-playing robot called “Deep Green” (a play on IBM’s Deep Blue) that uses a ceiling-mounted robotic arm on tracks and clever image processing routines to line up shots with .. well, mechanical accuracy. An interesting offshoot of the project, however, is an Augmented Reality pool-table overlay that can track a hand-held que to project ball trajectories onto the table (as shown above).
See the video of the system after the break, the AR part begins at the 2-minute mark (and watch the volume, it’s rather LOUD).
DEEPGREENROBOT.ORG. via Gizmodo
This is such a cool idea. I’m not sure that most traditionalists would go for this, but it definitely would give a different feel to the game!
If this robot could drink beer, it’d be perfect!