Idea for a new vision center training app

[nataddrho]

This app helps you align your vision center to your shot line.
1. Place a hole reinforcement sticker on your forehead over your known vision center.
2. Open app. Shows a live camera mode with a vertical line in the middle of the entire screen.
3. Put phone on phone stand on end rail, and align the vertical line to center of cue ball and target. Target can be OB ghost ball. Best used for a shot you’ll hit over and over again for practicing.
4. The app will illuminate the white flash LED when it detects that your vision center (sticker) and pool cue are both perfectly in line with the shot line.

This is more effective for beginner players. My vision center is grooved and it may not be as beneficial for me, for example. You can get the same result by video taping yourself, but the LED illumination lets you know you are inline immediately instead of having to review the video later.

Please go ahead and laugh this down. though silly sounding, it is cheap and effective. I don’t have time to make it since I am so busy, but if no one makes it to test it out I will have to do so next year.

If anyone wants a fun app project give it a shot.

Nate

Edit: sounds a little justnummy but I will maintain my position on the idea.

 

[Moe Szyslak]

1. Place a hole reinforcement sticker on your forehead over your known vision center.
2. Open app. App takes picture of you with a reinforcement sticker on your forehead and posts it to Facebook.

 

[nataddrho]

1. Place a hole reinforcement sticker on your forehead over your known vision center.
2. Open app. App takes picture of you with a reinforcement sticker on your forehead and posts it to Facebook.

If you are better at coding than me, which is easy, you can just recognize the face without needing a sticker. Less embarrassing

 

[b3p]

I think the camera's data would be too imprecise given the human inputs and setup here. I think accelerometer and compass data might. Ive been looking at creating an iOS app that enhances the classic "bottle drill". Using simple feature tracking frame by frame to calculate things like stroke smoothness and acceleration. Stuff your digicue does but only with imagery!

 

[straightline]

I have very unbalanced vision so while I can easily find my vision center, shooting that way would be a technical rabbit hole. I instead let my vision go double and shoot down the middle. Mechanical alignment is what works for me.

 

[nataddrho]

I think the camera's data would be too imprecise given the human inputs and setup here. I think accelerometer and compass data might. Ive been looking at creating an iOS app that enhances the classic "bottle drill". Using simple feature tracking frame by frame to calculate things like stroke smoothness and acceleration. Stuff your digicue does but only with imagery!

The magnetometer is inaccurate inside buildings and near metal objects. I tried this already.

 

[nataddrho]

I have very unbalanced vision so while I can easily find my vision center, shooting that way would be a technical rabbit hole. I instead let my vision go double and shoot down the middle. Mechanical alignment is what works for me.

I think we still want our head to be on the same place on the shot line, every time.

 

[straightline]

I think we still want our head to be on the same place on the shot line, every time.

Mine is AMAP nose, chin, stick. I tilt my head to level the image if necessary. Straight ahead though like binoculars.

 

[kling&allen]

I think we still want our head to be on the same place on the shot line, every time.

The iOS and Android SDKs have good eye tracking functions built in (along with other facial features). Detecting the cue and its alignment would be the hard part of the app.