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Using today's technology, wouldn't it be possible to equip lightgun with a mini camera, process the image to determine corners of the screen it's looking at, an
by RetroTechie 3y ago
Using today's technology, wouldn't it be possible to equip lightgun with a mini camera, process the image to determine corners of the screen it's looking at, and from that calculate its position/direction?
Kind of like how QR codes are scanned using phone camera.
If needed, one could even upload a display frame (current or near-future one) to the lightgun for use as reference.
Probably this would take some calibration, and sure the image processing would take some cpu/specialized processing hardware, but this being 2023 sounds doable, no? (if not done already)
- amelius 3y agoAR folks are solving many similar problems, so the answer is yes.
- Inityx 3y agoThat's almost how the Wii remotes worked, they just used the infrared sensor bar dots instead of the corners of the screen
- rjmunro 3y agoThat's pretty much what a WiiMote does, except it's not looking at corners of the screen, it's looking at infra-red lights on the "sensor bar". That's how the lightgunverter linked at the bottom of the article does it. https://www.lightgunverter.com/features.html https://www.lightgunverter.com/features.html
- cosmojg 3y agoThat's almost exactly how the Sinden Light Gun works: https://sindenlightgun.com/ https://sindenlightgun.com/