Bienvenue à OpenPool!!!!

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Bonjour! Last week 25 exchange students from France visited the OpenPool!!! First, we welcomed them with the effect of the pond.   After showed how kinect detects what is happening on the table. This is how this Super Billiard works! Surprisingly, most of the students majored in engineering! They asked technical questions about detection and programming. Moreover, started discussing how to detect each of the balls! It doesn’t matter if we are French or Japanese when around the table. Everyone gets excited, interested, and starts discussing to make it better. OpenPool is a wonderful communication tool to cross borders!   Super Billiard@France….. may be coming soon :) Merci beaucoup et […]

ASUS Xtion works too!

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Do you know the Kinect alternative Xtion from ASUS? We’ve tested Xtion and revealed it seems to work well with OpenPool. ASUS Xtion is much smaller than Kinect, and most importantly it can take electricity via USB, so it doesn’t have AC cable not like Kinect. So, using Xtion, we can decrease the number of the cables on the ceiling. Picture: Testing Xtion with Kinect. Smaller green-taped one is Xtion. I updated the DIY-recipe as Xtion is also acceptable. The idea to try Xtion were suggested by Jason from Taiwan. Thank you Jason!