In today’s world of fancy phones, fast computers and other new gadgets and gizmos emerging practically every day, it’s easy to forget that all around us are companies and industries that have persisted for decades.

My business partner Andy Thyssen and I have a somewhat non-traditional background when compared to other machine vision integrators in that we both spent over a decade working in the videogame business as software engineers.

One of my favorite entertainers of all time was the one and only Ray Charles. Although he was an inimitable vocalist, in 1945 it was his skill with the piano that started people talking.

Have you ever watched the performances of any of the truly great billiard players? It is pure artistry: the strategy, the angles, the spin.

Smart cameras can quickly solve certain vision application challenges. But sometimes they are just not enough.