.......do you see pool going the way of other sports that have put technological limitations on equipment? Major League Baseball...only wood bats. Hockey has a very specific regulated curve on the blade of the stick. I believe snooker cues are regulated too but I could be wrong about that. Tennis rackets have to meet specific criteria in size. Saw a weird YouTube video of an engineer who designed and built a pool ball pocketing machine that attached to his arm. It made all the calculations and balls did go in but not all the time. If you do see limitations forthcoming how do you perceive they'll evolve? What if someone developed a laser beam "gunsight" type of device that attached to his cue? Or gauges and valves that would mount to a cue and regulate the amount of speed and spin to put on the cue ball? What about cue length? Weight? Break cues? Jump cues? The technology in the past 30 years is off the charts but I think it only starts to scratch the surface of what might be possible in the future. What do you think?? Where do you see the technological advances going?
In the future........
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Justnum zone, m-man.
I am designing a bridge that functions like a crossbow.
I also designed a cue that has a laser sight.
Still looking for investors.
I have a cue made out of paper, ultra low production costs.
Cue cam is getting better and smaller.
Smartphone app to check for gaps in rack.
The AI aimer is not ready, but it can identify basic shots and provide some prediction on cueball position.
Magnetic ball set for perfect racking is ready, production cost high, need research to lower it..
I got an object ball return tray, you shoot at it and it respots so you practice without moving.
What do you need and can make money on?
What technology are you looking for? I got an entire research group just coming up with new ideas every month. Are you providing funding or incubator support.
I also designed a cue that has a laser sight.
Still looking for investors.
I have a cue made out of paper, ultra low production costs.
Cue cam is getting better and smaller.
Smartphone app to check for gaps in rack.
The AI aimer is not ready, but it can identify basic shots and provide some prediction on cueball position.
Magnetic ball set for perfect racking is ready, production cost high, need research to lower it..
I got an object ball return tray, you shoot at it and it respots so you practice without moving.
What do you need and can make money on?
What technology are you looking for? I got an entire research group just coming up with new ideas every month. Are you providing funding or incubator support.
Can't say where it's going but what I'm waiting on is synthetic beds and cloth.
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Carry on.
Carry on.
You are a gem, sir.
A table that will play pool by itself, without people. That way, we don't have to play, or practice, or anything. We can just hang around on the forum, and talk about pool, and debate the Oxford comma.
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Exactly what I thought. I even double-checked the id of the thread starter.
But an interesting question until the post got into robotics supplementing the human component.
I do believe tech, such as cue materials, will continue to evolve but players should draw the line on tech which does things for a human, like aiming or delivering the cue.
Based on today's technology its possible. However the modification to the balls will significantly change the traditional physics of the ball.
RC pool balls is the 2 sec sell pitch. The spec design is based on BB-8 from star wars.
I think semi colons need more action. They are abused in computer programming.
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Most of the existing engineers are too lazy to develop projects outside of their pay time.
The future is mostly for creative people. Billiard got screwed royally due to lack of political influence. In the future it might be worse.
I hear liquor licenses will require pool halls to close at 1am.
The future is mostly for creative people. Billiard got screwed royally due to lack of political influence. In the future it might be worse.
I hear liquor licenses will require pool halls to close at 1am.
I was being 100% serious in my question. As for the robotics comment it was meant as illustration of what could happen. In fact, there is actually a spring loaded cue out there right now. Google it. It's stupid as all hell but it's out there. Weren't there originally some sort of rules about lengths of cues? Fifty years ago no one ever considered the possibility of a carbon fiber zero deflection shaft that would take some percentage of the human learning curve out of the equation. Back in the day you had to learn how to use a bridge now you simply strap on a 2 foot extension to your cue. Snooker has those giant things as well....... THAT is what I'm talking about. Think about this..........how many 300s were bowled back in the day using one of those old solid rubber bowling balls. Now they have balls with high tech cores in them that hook damn near automatically which makes it MUCH easier to find the pocket and increases the chance of getting a strike. THAT is removing the human learning curve I'm talking about. Zero deflections cues aren't really "zero" now are they? What if someone creates some weird ass space age shape that truly IS zero deflection. Should that be allowed? Cloth has gotten SO much faster than in yesteryear. How much faster COULD it be woven so that the balls rolled around for an extra 10 seconds or so? What are the ramifications of that in our beloved sport? Ever watched 3 Cushion Billiards on a world class level? That cloth is like ice. You barely tap the ball and it rolls for a month. THAT is the high tech types of innovations I'm talking about. And, I'll not even venture down the road of the jump cue which has 1000000% supplanted the human element of knowing the rails and kicking systems when back in the day you had to learn such things. Now.......just jump over the problem ball. Granted jumping balls is a skill but at what cost? Sorry, I keep thinking of other comparisons: Don't they limit the number of clubs I pro golfer can carry around? Also don't they have technological specs on the design of those clubs. We used to walk into a pool room with one cue. Now players are arriving with a quiver of 3, 4, 5 different cues. How about a cue for the break, one for inside English, one for outside, one for draw, one that generates X amount of spin if you strike a tip-width off center? I believe golf clubs are sort of designed that way......same stroke.......different distances depending on the loft of the club face. Pool players might even want to consider a caddy to suggest certain cues for certain shots. I guess the main question after all that is; should there be some regulations or standards?
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