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Super impressive!

I'm kind of curious if you could track the ball with two wide angle cameras embedded in each axis of the table. I guess the players could obscure the ball doing that. Although I guess the players are raised a bit from the table, so might work?

I did wonder also if some kind of RF tracking could be used by embedding an RFID tag or similar in the ball.

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Thought about both of these, for various reasons they won't work. Trust me I spent a decent amount of time on this, I think objectively making the bottom transparent with thicker acrylic is the best solution, but motion tracking is the other viable option and I wanted to play with the cameras.

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