KickTraq

Backers of the castAR Kickstarter won't be left empty-handed even as castAR backs out of their campaign pledges. (Read More)

With some disappointment, backers of the successful castAR Kickstarter campaign will have received an email today about getting a refund for any hardware tiers they may have sponsored. However, it's not all bad news; the same people will also be getting a free castAR unit when it's released in 2017. (Read More)

CastAR (formerly Technical Illusions) today announced a $15 million Series A fundraising round to continue development of their augmented reality glasses of the same name. (Read More)

Kickstarter-funded startup castAR has released a new video showing what a family obsessed with augmented reality might look like. (Read More)

Five months ago, Technical Illusions gained over a million dollars in funding thanks to a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for castAR, a projected augmented reality project that company founders Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson brought over from Valve when they were laid off almost two years ago. Ever since the campaign's success, the company has been ramping up prototyping on a rapid scale so that the final unit can be sent off for mass production. (Read More)

CES 2014 was packed with devices from fledgling companies that relied on crowdfunding to get off the ground, as well as growing manufacturers like Pebble showing the potential of Kickstarter success. (Read More)

Woodinville, Washington based Technical Illusions is celebrating today after the close of their wildly successful Kickstarter funding round. The company raised $1,052,110 for the castAR, a pair of “augmented reality glasses” that seems to be somewhere between Google Glass and the Oculus Rift. (Read More)

We want to thank everyone who have pledged and believed in what we are doing. We are very proud to have achieved $1 million during our campaign.   As we have a few hours left, we are going to put out one last stretch goal. At $1,100,000 we will: Add... (Read More)

In this video update, we talk about our recent public demonstrations, hitting our $800,000 stretch goal, our $900,000 stretch goal, and some other things. Stay tuned for another update video where we will be showing Dragons of Elanthia with castAR... (Read More)

We promised you a video showing what castAR can do from inside a cockpit.  We rolled out our Star Wars cockpit from the garage, placed some retro material over the monitor as well as off to one side.  We then used an asteroids game we had made for... (Read More)

We've been busy doing a little business down in California and topped it off with another public demo - this time at the Home Brew Computer Club Reunion. It was great honor showing castAR to the technology legends that built the foundation we all... (Read More)

We've scoured Kickstarter for the hottest projects you'll be buying next year. (Read More)

We've been on the road again, most recently showing off castAR in public at GDC Next. We would like to thank everyone who waited in line to see it first-hand. We're making the rounds to some other smaller shows and then back up to Seattle to finish... (Read More)

By now we’ve all heard of Oculus Rift, but how many of us have caught wind of castAR? We cover a ton of Kickstarter projects here on iGR, and I hadn’t caught wind of the goal crushing AR/VR headset until my hands on time with it here at GDC Next. I read a bit about the crew prior to heading over to their booth, but I wasn’t fully prepared for the experience at hand. I was very surprised to see how well the prototype AR glasses the team at Technical Illusions put together performed. (Read More)

While we've previously demonstrated castAR using our Magic Wand in addition to a 360 joystick, we wanted to show you that projected augmented reality works extremely well with other input devices, such as the Leap Motion:  (Read More)

After doing the Game Jam this weekend and several live Q & A sessions, we decided to record a quick video detailing the hardware and features.  Also, we are pleased to announce that we have gotten castAR integrated into Vireio Perception 2.x... (Read More)

We are very excited to have hit our first stretch goal already-- thanks for helping us make it happen!  We will be adding a few more stretch goals soon.For the next 48 hours, we will be live-streaming from Technical Illusions headquarters, creating... (Read More)

Today’s update demonstrates how we can use augmented reality to help improve upon the way doctors are able to visualize medical scans. We took a sequence of 20 MRI scans of a human’s head. By laying them out in 3D, a doctor is able to see the... (Read More)

When Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson parted ways with Valve last February, they took away the thingamajig they'd spent the previous year developing. And now it's got a Kickstarter. (Read More)

There are all kinds of companies experimenting with augmented and virtual reality right now. Google Glass projects a screen onto your retina. Oculus Rift straps a display to your face. Meta SpaceGlasses beam a hologram out in front of you. Now you can add another player to the game—castAR. (Read More)

We wanted to give you a quick video update of what we have been up to. We briefly discuss our media events from last week, what we will be showing in future updates, and our Kickstarter progress. For our future updates, we plan on showing the AR/VR... (Read More)

The castAR Kickstarter is bringing virtual and augmented reality to life. The system gives the user the ability to see 3d holographic projections in front of them for a fully immersive experience. (Read More)

Two former employees from Valve are now working together on the development of their own pair of augmented reality glasses, in an effort that has brought them to Kickstarter in order to raise the necessary funds. (Read More)

When we first started to explore the AR space, we quickly realized we knew very little about it. What makes something fun? How do we handle user input? How do we communicate important aspects to the user? We decided to create a prototyping system so... (Read More)

Pair of ex-Valve employees debuted their creation at Maker Faire 2013 and plans a retail offering with Kickstarter's help. (Read More)

When we originally started to plan our kickstarter campaign, we began to investigate shipping options. Our goal was to evaluate different types of shipping, from USPS, specialized carriers, and just in time logistics. At the point that we launched... (Read More)

The Kickstarter campaign started by ex-Valve employee Jeri Ellsworth for castAR—a 3D augmented and virtual reality headset—has been quite a success. In just two days since the campaign started, it has reached its funding goal of $400,000. At the time of writing, the campaign still has 28 days to go and is sitting on $444,941 with 1,836 backers. The campaign will go on till November 14. The company will undoubtedly announce some stretch goals for the project soon. (Read More)

The CastAR augmented reality glasses has reached its Kickstarter goal of $400,000 less than three days after its launch. (Read More)

If you're the type of person that loves to think augmented reality is "the future", the video below will most likely give you goosebumps. Two ex-Valve employees (Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson) have placed their AR/VR glasses on Kickstarter and in a little over 2 days have hit their goal of 400k. (Read More)

Faith in probable genius inventor Jeri Ellsworth seems to be quite high, as her CastAR glasses project has raised its $400,000 Kickstarter goal with 29 days left on the clock. (Read More)

When we launched the castAR campaign less than 20 hours ago, we had no idea it would generate the amount of interest it has in such a short period of time. In the case that we significantly surpass our initial fundraising goal, we will have... (Read More)

A GROUP of ex-Valve employees have appeared on Kickstarter promoting an augmented reality eyewear project. The gang, which is called Technical Illusions and includes Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, is after $400,000 towards the kit that it is calling Castar. (Read More)

Move over Google Glass; the real future of wearable tech has arrived. (Read More)

Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have taken their CastAR augmented reality glasses to Kickstarter. The pair already have a working prototype for the technology so the $400,000 (£250,000) funding request is intended to help bring the product to market. (Read More)

When Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson were let go from Valve back in February, they didn't want to give up on the top-secret augmented reality project they had worked so hard on during their time as employees. So they obtained permission to carry on with it, formed a company called Technical Illusions, and went to work to create what they would eventually call castAR. (Read More)

CastAR is the new augmented and virtual reality glasses tech from ex-Valve inventor Jeri Ellsworth and former colleague Rick Johnson. The device has now appeared on Kickstarter with both creators looking for funding to the tune of $400,000. (Read More)

Former Valve employees Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson launched a Kickstarter project to fund the Cast AR augmented reality glasses. The glasses were initially developed while both Ellsworth and Johnson were working at Valve, and Ellsworth was granted permission to keep the AR glasses when she was let go by Valve in February. (Read More)

Engineer Jeri Ellsworth and former Raven dev Rick Johnson used to work at Valve, on the company's ambitious hardware plans. That was until February, when the pair were laid off. Never mind. (Read More)

Jeri Ellsworth returns to The Amp Hour to talk about her time at Valve, the unfortunate end to her employment there and the phoenix of a project rising from the ashes! The castAR from Technical Illusions! (Read More)