LiveCode 8 and a new video player?

[Kay C Lan]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

And a more specific question: in the video you linked to, how does the app
> know the angle of the table the book is resting on?  Does the book have two
> RFIDs for triangulation, or does it calculate solely from what it knows
> about the images on each page, or something else?
>

My guess is it's simply the knowledge of the image. Of the demo of the
walking miniature horse the cube I was holding was a block of wood with
paper black and white images glued to it. A kindergarten kid could have
made it. There was no RFID. I'm guessing it must work off a highly
specialised OCR algorithm but instead of trying to decipher 26 letters, 10
numerals and a handful of punctuation marks; it is just one, or 6 in the
case of a cube, but from multiple angles and orientation. In the case of a
cube the angle never has to be less than 45° because once you go below that
another side/image becomes dominant as it rises above 45°. An improvement
on the QR Code algorithm maybe?

Always appreciate your glass half full (if not overflowing) viewpoint
Richard :-)