Bavafongoul said:

DigiBall is a indication of better things to come and maybe there’ll be a link of DigiBall to AI
intelligent glasses that display shot probability or maybe the normal cue ball deflection path.
Science is making leaps and bounds that seemed unimaginable even only a decade ago.

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I bought some hardware and spent some time on making glasses that simply monitor retina movement during your final stroke. Just to catch if someone is looking up before they should be. If so you’ll see a red light on the inside of the glasses. Otherwise it’ll be green.

This is doable but is challenging. I gave up for now and will try again in the future, but the software works.

Making AI glasses with the precision needed for things beyond this simple case is not currently available.

Bob Jewett said:

And here is the earliest mention I could find of the dart design -- 1933:

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The pre-dart Ivorylene balls had a major flaw - the striped balls would come apart. The center (striped portion) was not mechanically connected to the sides. Their scarcity is probably due to that. For the solid #1-8 balls, it can be very difficult to tell the difference between Ivorylene, Empire, and even some Compo-Ivory balls. (Most Compos had the pencil-thin number font, but the number's line thickness varied dramatically even within a matched set.)

Man...... That Bierbower.

In a parallel universe, the state of British snooker is having similar issues. The last two snooker world champions are Chinese. Until recently, there were only a few non-British champions. Here is Stephen Hendry's take on it. The comments for the video are pretty interesting.

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