</p> This was our favorite thing at PAX. Check out our video to see what this Augmented Reality is all about.
There is a lot of VR floating around out there, but my money is on AR when it comes to home use. Sure, VR will be in the home as well, but AR has so many advantages. Check out the video for all the details on CastAR.
Wow, this looks really cool. It seems to address a lot of the downfalls of traditional VR, while bringing to the table a slew of new things! Looking forward to seeing and hearing more about this!
How was the quality while wearing it?
I watched the video and tbh it looked kinda crappy. The images were grainy, washed out and dark. In short, not very impressive. Was that purely due to the fact that it was being filmed through the lens? This technology is always quite hard to properly demonstrate.
This is maybe one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Top content guys!
It looked fine. The quality will get better too. This was just a demo and it can easily work with any Unity game thanks to their plugin.
Alright that is what I figured. Thanks for the clarification.
That Unity plugin is very interesting. Should make the technology incredibly adaptable. Way more than many of the other VR headsets out there. This is probably one of the first and only VR/AR type thing that actually got me excited and that I didn't dismiss as a passing fad like 3D.
My dream is to see this being used with the new Battletech game, I would throw money at them...
I heard or read about a use of tech like this, it was imagery projected onto your view as you moved around and through various installations and/or ruins, museums and such. Very cool, with multiple possibilities. I can see Yoko Ono using this in one of her installations and hell, even bands taking advantage of it. Hmmm, in a seedy old pr0n theatre this could be art... well, ummm... in fact, nevermind.
This is genuinely cool. I very much look forward to see what this can do out in the wild. Sounds like it is going to be the bones of 2-3 years though before any consumer style thing. Hopefully it does not go the way of the Leap Motion and fade away into interesting potentially awesome obscurity while it is being developed.
Now all the needs to happen is to sway the publishers, developers, GPU vendors and the billions of dollars of investment in VR to work with this too. Damn there goes that cool new toy all ready.
EDIT: Forgot to say, the guy seemed strange? Like cagey or something, or that he had been shit on by VR guys all day and had people bad mouth his stuff. Just seemed off. But dude had the info and seems to be more on the side of people doing things themselves. Set up your own playing field? Sure this is the material you need. Not too much proprietary bullshit. Which was nice. And taking a few very thinly veiled swipes at VR as a whole. But I agree with him, what he was showing was better in every imaginable way.
Was Jeri Ellsworth there? You should have interviewed her. She's very cool!
She has a lot of interesting hardware / electronics stuff on her channel as well.
Damn she was helpful as to the whole workings and information. I wonder why they were fired, seems like Valve have lost out on some major cool stuff.
Also again seems to be reinforcing the DIY and customisability of this system. Very nice.
EDIT: Damn I just looked at their website and their video with actors. I had not even thought of using this to just control the desktop either. Having the 3D and layers and controller to reach and grab things both physical and virtual? You could make a super usable desktop with this. Damn that is some cool possibility.
Better yet. They are looking for linux developers and with the changeable DEs and the opensource nature of it I could see all sorts of very cool application for this tech in just general computing with out games even coming into it yet. Damn. So cool.
Team it up with a Leap Motion and it could be even better.
I was thinking something similar.
Link?
I can see these hanging on walls in bars for augmented darts (perfect for when you're drunk and don't want to poke any eyes out), fancy augmented chess/tabletop game tables in parks, rapid prototyping or just building shit for games.
This definitely looks promising
I work for a building firm and I can see us really using this kind of tech.
Trying to get a 50 year old builder to us VR is never going to happen, but something like this is far more approachable.
great video guys, please more of the same.