Building a Multimodal Game-Box Scanner With VisionKit, IGDB, and GPT-5.6 Luna
September 25. I pointed my app at the Pokémon Red box on an Amazon page. It found Pokémon Red Version. Under "Read from the photo," it says "EAME BOYI." On September 17, a photo of the Japanese box, ポケットモンスター赤 (Pocket Monsters Red), came out as 「新トレスター」 ("New Trestar," a game that does not exist).
Scanning the Pokémon Red box on an Amazon page with Duo Queue, real speed
Duo Queue is an iOS app I built for Shipaton 2026. Two people list the games they own and decide what to play tonight. One feature: point the camera at a game box, and the app finds the game. I added it on September 16. On September 22, the fourth version went to App Review.
September 16: read the text on the box
The first version used Apple's VisionKit. The camera reads the text on the box, and the app searches ...
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