I've been working on cardcast.gg. It gives you the ability to play Magic: The Gathering with your friends remotely using a webcam.

I got back into MTG back during the pandemic after a long hiatus and Spelltable is what brought me back. My playgroup lamented more features and something tailored to our needs, so curiosity got the better of me and here we are. :)

I've never worked with computer vision before, but I went through a whole journey that started with the classical computer vision techniques and ended with recently migrating to the transformer-based models. Been a really cool adventure!

My playgroup has been consistently preferring it over Spelltable and have been wanting more and more features. I would love for people to try it out and start building a community around it! Discord is on the site.

https://cardcast.gg

Interesting, seems you are doing the recognition server-side, no reliable way to do it locally using e.g. WASM on the client?

An alternative to spelltable is a great idea! My friend group played extensively a few years back through it but always ran into weird bugs and glitches.

I love that there is no sign-up required! Do you have plans to implement utilizing a mobile phone as a camera? Spelltables implementation leaves much to be desired.

Excited to see where this goes!