I came here curios what you guys would think if his. What if you can place a card (yugioh,pokemon,magic...ect) and you can view a virtual version of everything you are doing and have it track every little point and such. This would be like yugioh's little 'cherry picker' duels but on a screen and not a simple flat square. I've got experience in programming abd electrical engineering. For a project I was thinking if making, what I would call, a tournament board. This in simple would be a real-virtual interactivity of any tcg game. It would have a centre of the area where you can download a specific game (yugioh,pokemon,war,magic,crazy eights...etc)
I was thinking that there would be 2 versions. Version 1(first made) is a single screen-2 consoles. It has the screen on horizon leveled with the console where you place the cards. It would have 2 card transfer lanes that run along the long side from console to console. Version 2 would be a wireless console that can be used to play with other people around the world through the internet(or with another console of same with a cord connecting). To replace card transfer I would make a special card that would be spit out and the console would know what it is(I am thinking maybe some lame aged surface so the player may write something so they know what the card is).
Those are using little images that the programming recognizes. I'm not talking about stuff like that, which would be 'uber' expensive. I want to create something that can be purchased for less than 100$, and not use expensive cameras. Using the camera method would intensify the amount of calculations and programming done the. Compared to a magnet strip reader or other such means. The camera method may be a last resort by using a single camera and a grid. It would also reduce physical switches and buttons. Precision+high price vs. low cost+buttons. Now that I think about it, I may have to use a camera. And on another side note, the camera recognition that Nintendo used has been around since the computers have been able to use images.
Ps:connecting a field that can sustain holding a square of average 3x7 would be difficult for a tablet, let alone mobile phone to use.