Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson - castAR: the most versatile AR & VR system ever!

[SysAdmin]

What is castAR?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system?ref=search.

castAR is a projected augmented reality system that displays holographic-like 3D projections right in front of you. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope sparked our imaginations of what might be possible in the future by showing R2-D2 and Chewbacca playing a holographic 3D chess-style game. It has taken nearly 35 years since the film was released for this technological dream to come to reality, but with castAR, that reality can be yours.

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Jeri Ellsworth

Jeri Ellsworth is an inventor, product designer, and engineer of both chip and system-level designs. Her broad skillset enables her to design reliable, low cost, and highly integrated systems, and has made her well-known in the industry for cutting-edge consumer products which sell in the millions.

Rick Johnson

Rick Johnson started working on his first professional video game, Black Crypt, half way through college with 3 other people. Raven Software was formed during the game's development. The game was published by Electronic Arts on the Commodore Amiga. After graduating college, Rick went to Raven full time, working on over 13 titles including Heretic 2 and Star Wars Jedi Academy. He was the lead programmer on Hexen 2, Soldier of Fortune, Soldier of Fortune 2, and Quake 4. After 17 years at Raven, Rick joined Gearbox Software to work on an unannounced prototype project and to assist with Brothers in Arms.

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[NovaCoder]

It looks very interesting but I can't really see a technology that requires the user to wear glasses being that successful.

Maybe one day will get some kind of holographic lazer project technology that will be glasses free but I guess by that time we'll all be hard-wired to the Net anyway

[James2002]

I saw the demo on Beck heck show on youtube. It amazing. I don't think I would want  3d yet.

[Thorham]

but I guess by that time we'll all be hard-wired to the Net anyway

Not me, they ain't stickin' no stinkin' wires in my brain

[Hattig]

It looks very interesting but I can't really see a technology that requires the user to wear glasses being that successful.

Maybe one day will get some kind of holographic lazer project technology that will be glasses free but I guess by that time we'll all be hard-wired to the Net anyway

I can see many tabletop gamers loving it.  And it's funded fully now (surprised they only wanted $400k in total), so we can see how it does.

The price is also pretty good. And it can only go down in the future as the technology evolves - so I'll wait a while myself.