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Augmented Reality Billiards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the justify-this-in-the-budget dept.

scubacuda writes: "Wired.com reports that Columbia's CS Department has designed a new gadget designed to "take the brainwork out of billiards" and help the average player eventually take on professional pool sharks. The Stochasticks consists of a 5-by-10-inch laptop carried in a backpack, a half-centimeter-by-1-inch long lipstick camera and a headset. Pool experts, such as Mike Spinkle, president of United States Poolplayer Association, say that this device makes it easier to visualize the angles."

22 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp! mutha fuckas!

  2. 1 w@5 h@X0R3D By @ 37337 +r011 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Tactics of pool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:awkwardness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:awkwardness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    12 seconds my ass

  6. |-|3y C/\/\DR+@c0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    j00 r 50 7@/\/\3 @/\d 6@y! +@c0 5/\0+ j0/\K@tzes c0x0r

  7. Fuck billiards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've seen what geeks look like, this device should be used for dating and mating purposes.

  8. Re: Hmm .. [off-topic]... by rajinder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...a world where the tools used to educate and illustrate are no longer small enough to throw at a daydreaming students head?

    Or, just possibly, a world where people mispell things that they type into a bloody text box without reviewing.

    I dunno, you tell me ;)

    --
    - It is simple to make something complex, and complex to make it simple
  9. Re:The problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. /\/\0d p@R3/\+ |_||< by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  11. To that lamer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whos crapflooding bullshit that only lamers post STFU

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    suxx0r @ coxx0r!

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  13. Ph3@R /\/\y /\/\@d 5|<1775 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ph|_|(|< j00

  14. Re:What's hard about visualizing angles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll bet you use linux too.

  15. \/\/3@R /\/\y 37337 C0/\/\put0r by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ph|_|(|< j00!

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  16. Reese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kyle Reese. Sarah Connor. Funny, though.

  17. USPA... Geocities? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please god. Tell me this is not a real organization's website?? Fucking Geocities?

  18. Try it sometime... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Snooker. Bigger table, less forgiving.

  19. Re:I have one of those. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I feel sorry for you, man. -1? Wow... people must really like trolls or something...

  20. Re:Forget about the pool-shooting application... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL, I thought the same thing when I read the article :)

  21. Yep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You're more right on than you'll ever know...

  22. Re:Augmented Reality Pool, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And a crash to the head...simulating someone sucker hitting you with a beer bottle.