ExtraplanarLabs.net created an app called Arcane Eye that uses your phone camera (and possibly a USB camera?) to read physical dice rolls and sync them directly to a VTT or game log with the appropriate roll labels.
I hope D&D Beyond could look at adding something like this. Many players want to roll real dice while playing digitally, and this would finally bridge physical and online play.
Let us roll real dice without breaking digital integration; a huge quality-of-life win for digital tables.
Note: I understand the concerns about camera use or moderation: Wizards of the Coast already uses camera-based technology with SpellTable for Magic: The Gathering, where players use webcams to play remotely. The precedent already exists; cameras use with clear guidelines and user controls.
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Yeah no, I don't think this is something the devs should invest time in, let alone would.
It'd be a hefty undertaking for a very niche use case. It'd require the devs develop a quick, accurate way of reading any type of dice through camera image recognition. This would be completely different to SpellTable. Why? Because MtG cards are standardised and that's great for image recognition. Dice are not.
It requires additional hardware commitment to use as people would have to setup a rig that holds their phone to see their dice tray. Most people aren't gonna faff around with that. Also it'd be useless for people who play D&D via their tablets and the like
It's a solved problem already. How? By just telling the table what you rolled and having trust. If you want to argue accessibility, that's why digital dice exists and if you want to insist on both using physical dice and accessibility you can use a calculator to add modifiers
I feel like this is a solution in search of a problem and not something that'd meaningfully add anything to the value of using D&D Beyond.
ExtraplanarLabs.net created an app called Arcane Eye that uses your phone camera (and possibly a USB camera?) to read physical dice rolls and sync them directly to a VTT or game log with the appropriate roll labels.
I hope D&D Beyond could look at adding something like this. Many players want to roll real dice while playing digitally, and this would finally bridge physical and online play.
Let us roll real dice without breaking digital integration; a huge quality-of-life win for digital tables.
Note: I understand the concerns about camera use or moderation: Wizards of the Coast already uses camera-based technology with SpellTable for Magic: The Gathering, where players use webcams to play remotely. The precedent already exists; cameras use with clear guidelines and user controls.
What you're asking for is an API to add log entries.
We currently don't even have access to the existing API: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/148262-can-i-use-the-api-for-free
[Preamble—please keep in mind this forum is not just for people to share feedback, for the community to give their opinions on said feedback, hence my below response]
Yeah no, I don't think this is something the devs should invest time in, let alone would.
I feel like this is a solution in search of a problem and not something that'd meaningfully add anything to the value of using D&D Beyond.
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The alternative is allowing Arcane Eye style send log entries to the D&D VTT, which would be far less extensive, and have far more general utility.