Scan a SnookerIn development
Replace the balls properly.
In a club with no referee, putting the balls back after a foul and a miss is guesswork, and it costs frames. Scan the table first and Snookered shows you exactly where everything was.
How it works.
The camera does the work, and a table diagram is always there as a second pair of eyes, or as the whole thing if you would rather place the balls by hand.
Point at the table
Tap any two landmarks you can see, spots or pockets. Two is enough, so it still works when balls are covering the rest.
Scan the balls
Snookered records where every ball is, in table millimetres rather than anything to do with where you were standing.
Check on the diagram
The scan appears on a table diagram. Nudge anything that landed in the wrong place, or use the diagram on its own.
Put them back
After the miss, hold the phone up and a ghost sits where each ball was. Match them up and play on.
AR routine set-up
Your routine, laid out on the real table.
The same camera sets a routine up for you. Every ball gets a ghost on the cloth, so a fifteen-ball layout takes seconds instead of a guess and a squint at a diagram.
- Works with the routines you build yourself
- Balls in table millimetres, so the layout is the same on any table
- The diagram stays available if you would rather not use the camera
Straight with you
What to expect.
AR is the part of Snookered still being built, and we would rather say so than pretend. Here is where it stands.
- An iPhone with LiDAR places balls to roughly a centimetre; other iPhones are more like two to five
- That is close enough to replace balls fairly, and you can nudge anything on the diagram
- It needs a build on a real table to tune, which is happening now
Questions.
No. Any iPhone that runs the app can scan. Phones with LiDAR are more accurate, and every phone can use the diagram.
Fancy testing it?
If you have a table and an iPhone, we would love your help testing it on a real table.