Want to learn to play snooker, but is ashamed to be a “leading zero”? Ricardo Alves and Luis Sousa, two young University of Algarve, research fellows and students of the Master in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, have created a tool to help beginners or amateurs of this sport to predict the trajectory of the balls, as happens in some games computer: the Pool Live Aid (Help Live in Billiards, a free translation). Interested?
This system is based on a Kinect camera, the same type of hardware you find in games like Wii, Xbox360 or PlayStation 3, and software that detects the walls of the pool table consoles balls, including its color, and the position and angle of the bat.
All this information is processed and then projected onto the table by a video camera above the table, which projects the trajectory in a very futuristic, with a similar film Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise look. The blue lines will indicate which tables it takes to get the balls into the holes
Here’s a demonstration of Pool Live Aid in Futurália in Lisbon.
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