In the last year, [Jeri Ellsworth] has been very busy. A szelepet bérelték, elkezdték fejlődni egy bővített valóságos rendszert, a szelep által lőttek, és új céget indítottak [Rick Johnson], hogy a bővített valóság szemüvegét a piacra hozza. On the last Amp hour podcast she spilled the beans on what went down at Valve, how her glasses work, and what her plans for the future are.
[Jeri] and [Rick]’s castAR glasses aren’t virtual reality glasses like the Oculus Rift or other virtual reality glasses that cut you off from the real world. The castAR glasses preserve your peripheral vision by projecting images and objects onto a gray retro-reflective mat and allows you to interact with a virtual environment with an electronic wand. Eddig néhány demó van a Castar rendszer számára; a Jenga clone, and a game of battle chess called team For Chess, a terrific reference to Valve’s hat simulator.
Az elektronika a castáris szemüveg belsejében meglehetősen lenyűgöző; new frames are drawn on the retro-reflective surface at 100 Hz, positioning accuracy is in the sub-millimeter range, and thanks to [Jeri]’s creative engineering the entire system must be priced at about $200. Not too bad for an amazing device that can be used not only for D&D and Warhammer, but also for some very amazing functional applications like visualizing engineering models of 3D prints before they’re printed.