lelandbatey 5 days ago

You do not need to scan a QR code via a physical camera in your hand directly; any general purpose computer can run a QR code parsing program which accepts arbitrary images as input. It's so easy to do that there exist web pages which implement said QR code scanning in JS. Thus, the parent poster has recommended that you save the QR code .png file to your disk and then use such a piece of software, such as the website they linked, to extract the data encoded in that QR code.

That is how you can use nearly any general-purpose computer to scan a QR code.

  • iainmerrick 5 days ago

    Or... use a URL.

    I'm sure the number of people who've ever scanned a QR code on a desktop computer is more than zero, but not much more.

    • kuberwastaken 5 days ago

      I think I myself brought that number into early triple digits, but I do also have a hosted version if you're interested!

      The reason for doing this project isn't practicality, it's because I can

kuberwastaken 5 days ago

Hey just wanted to update, I Managed to add kind of some mobile touch support here, so if you get an alternate chromium based browser, you can put in the URI to play on mobile too!

kuberwastaken 5 days ago

Nope it doesn't, you can use any QR code scanner that takes image input! I would've loved to include smartphone controls but that would take a LOT of extra bandwidth.