Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
by scient on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @09:55AM
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Ah, the "I'm no developer, but this is easy" person. Glad to have your valuable input here :)
Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
by antisthenes on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:50PM
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"I could build a twitter clone over the weekend!"
Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
by runholm on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:12AM
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The problem you are describing is one that many large companies spend huge resources on today, so guarantee you that it is not something you do in a couple of days.
Even if you had the system up and running, you would still need to create a large database system managing 100 billion data points each day and integrate the stream of information with your customers APIs.
$2m worth of developer time going into this project is very likely. Thinking you could do this in a couple of days is simply ignorant.
Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
by alexpersian on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @09:36AM
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Ok. Now get the database of content to match it against and build a program that automatically determines what the user is engaged in.
Just use something like pHash (e.g. https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash), screen cap the centre of the screen (say, a quarter of the screen in total) every minute, hash and then send the 8 byte hex string back to home base.