Ex-Valve engineers explain the CastAR's benefits over its competition

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"We can do everything Oculus can do and more," claims ex-Valve inventor Jeri Ellsworth as she tells me about her upcoming CastAR headset over Skype.
That's a bold claim, but Ellsworth and her software programming colleague Rick Johnson (also a former Valve staffer) at Technical Illusions are confident that they can deliver the same experience as the Oculus Rift, only better, in addition to a host of other potentially revolutionary features.
How does it work, you ask? The successfully funded CastAR Kickstarter campaign has a rather detailed breakdown, but the basic gist is that it's a pair of spectacles (built to fit over prescription glasses) that projects an image onto a retro-reflective grey surface, so the wearer sees what appears to be an augmented reality hologram. We call this "Projected AR."
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