More than half-a-year after being let go by Valve, Jeri Ellsworth, noted inventor, and fellow former Valve colleague Rick Johnson, programmer, are ready to begin gathering the crowd-funds they need to make their CastAR augmented and virtual reality glasses a big scale reality.CastAR needs $400,000 on Kickstarter and initially seems to be off to a confident start.
CastAR are lightweight glasses that project 3D images onto a reflective sheet to produce a holographic scene in front of your eyes. There's head-tracking so the scene moves with you, and there's a joystick wand thing that allows you to interact with what you see.
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