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Oculus VR competitor from former Valve employees now on Kickstarter

We are truly standing on the precipice of a cyberpunk future, and I, for one, welcome our new technocratic overlords who are promising to bring us augmented- and virtual-reality vision. Technical...

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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is still gaming’s showman at 72

In 1972, Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari with Ted Dabney. The company went on to launch seminal video games such as Pong and Breakout that defined a generation of gamers. Almost 43 years later, he’s...

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Android creator Andy Rubin invests $15M in CastAR to build augmented reality...

Augmented reality gaming glasses startup CastAR has raised $15 million in funding from Android creator Andy Rubin. The money from Rubin’s Playground Global investment firm brings a variety of benefits,...

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CastAR will return $1M in Kickstarter money and postpone augmented reality...

CastAR is postponing the launch of its augmented reality glasses, but it is also doing something unusual. The startup is returning all of the $1 million in pledged money from its Kickstarter...

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How CastAR’s Jeri Ellsworth will use augmented reality for fun tabletop gaming

Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun AR product has been cooking for a while, and they’re taking...

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Augmented reality firm CastAR recruits former LucasArts chief Darrell...

CastAR is a high-profile augmented reality startup, and now it’s kicking into high gear. The maker of the upcoming CastAR AR glasses has recruited former LucasArts chief Darrell Rodriguez as its chief...

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CastAR opens Salt Lake City studio led by former Disney Infinity developers

Augmented reality startup CastAR is opening a new mixed reality studio in Salt Lake City today, with talent recruited from the former developers of Disney’s Infinity toy-game franchise. Disney closed...

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CastAR adds former Sony PlayStation marketing chief as CMO

Mixed-reality startup CastAR continues to beef up its management team with the addition of Peter Dille, the former head of marketing for the Sony PlayStation business in the U.S., as its chief...

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Twisted Metal veterans join CastAR dev staff to mix together gaming and reality

When CastAR’s head-mounted display launches, it’s going to need content. And the company is taking steps to ensure that happens. CastAR revealed today that it has hired former Eat Sleep Play developers...

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The tantalizing promise of augmented reality games

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. They promise us...

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CastAR’s collapse shows the incredible challenge of making AR games

CastAR was one of the most ambitious augmented reality game companies in the business. But it looks like it has shut down amid one of the most obvious problems in the fledgling industry: It was too...

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AR/VR Weekly: Eleven Ventures shows investors still want to make it rain

Some big-time investors are going to bat for emerging technologies such as augmented and virtual reality with a new venture capital firm: Eleven Ventures. And no, that name doesn’t mean they’re just...

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Move over, Oculus. This startup’s augmented reality will blow your mind.

Above: Rick Johnson and Jeri Ellsworth of Technical Illusions, creator of CastARImage Credit: Dean Takahashi WOODINVILLE, Wash. — Inside a big home in the forested suburbs of Seattle, augmented reality...

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You’ll soon have 16+ different smart glasses to choose from. Here’s how to...

Smart glasses are expected to gain a lot of momentum as “wearable computing” takes root in the consumer market. A lot of the details, like how to protect privacy in a world full of smart glasses, still...

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Valve spinoff Technical Illusions shows off its Google Glass competitor...

EXCLUSIVE: Technical Illusions is getting quite serious about augmented reality. The company, founded by former Valve tech wizards Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, is making the CastAR...

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CastAR founder Jeri Ellsworth will augment our speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2016

We’re happy to announce that Jeri Ellsworth, cofounder of augmented reality glasses maker CastAR, will be one of our speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3...

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CastAR shows how it will turn your tabletop into an animated gaming world

Augmented reality gaming glasses startup CastAR recently sent out a taste of what the future of tabletop games will be like. Using its special AR glasses, CastAR can overlay animations on top of the...

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GamesBeat 2016 panel to explore how to make the next Pokémon Go augmented...

I’m delighted to announce our newest panel for AR/VR Day at GamesBeat 2016. We have an eclectic collection of speaker who can talk about how to make augmented reality games. While Pokémon Go has...

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Tilt Five picks up CastAR’s augmented reality technology and starts new...

Tilt Five has picked up where CastAR, the augmented reality startup that shutdown in 2017, left off. Tilt Five is starting a Kickstarter campaign today.Read More

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