geneb Posted June 13, 2019 Report Share Posted June 13, 2019 So from the ashes of CastAR comes Tilt5. https://www.tiltfive.com/ This episode of the Amp Hour podcast goes pretty deep into what happened to CastAR and why. It's pretty entertaining. https://theamphour.com/394-jeri-ellsworth-and-the-demise-of-castar/ I don't know that it's sim-worthy though. (How do I change my account icon to a jpg instead of the "G" on a colored background?) g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted June 14, 2019 Report Share Posted June 14, 2019 Just click on your username, then overlapping the big 'G' on the upper left there's a little button to select your photo. Yeah, I've signed up with them for email alerts. I really hope they have a better tracking solution this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneb Posted June 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hrm. Not finding the image change link. Here's a link to their discord server: https://discord.gg/JjqBZe I'm likely going to get a set of the developer hardware if it's not too expensive. g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted June 14, 2019 Report Share Posted June 14, 2019 I'm not signing up for an instant messaging service, so please keep us informed about what they're up to. I'll try and get a dev kit as well, it may be a while before they ship outside the USA though. While they are concentrating on a tabletop format for the time being, I still think the basic idea has potential for flightsims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 Ho hum, another Kickstarter some 6 years after the first...and for delivery in June 2020. I'm probably going to sit this one out, but may get the cheapest level just to play with the tech whenever it arrives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneb Posted September 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 That's what I did. I ponied up for the $339 XE kit. There's a 30 minute video that Tested did that you might want to check out. It came out yesterday. g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 On 9/26/2019 at 4:34 PM, geneb said: There's a 30 minute video that Tested did that you might want to check out Thanks! I've finally got around to watching it. If anyone else is interested, it's this one. In any of the 'through the glasses' shots. it seems they are still using that CastAR plate with 5 or so IR LEDs on it and not the dots around the edge for the tracking. So, a bit misleading. We know the visuals work well, but it's the tracking that concerns me as I could never get the CastAR prototype to work smoothly. Anyway, a few days left before the campaign ends. I'm getting slightly more enthusiastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneb Posted October 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 Attached is a response I got from one of the Tilt5 folks when I asked about the IR fiducial a few minutes ago on their Discord server. Doooo EEEEEET! g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted November 10, 2019 Report Share Posted November 10, 2019 OK, I relented in the end and joined in... I did some experiments with my castAR prototype, and it may not just be the tracking that's the problem, but the whole reprojection loop being too slow. Strikes me that this may be much tougher for AR than VR to handle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneb Posted November 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2019 The current hardware is way out ahead of the CastAR hardware you've got. I don't know if you've seen it yet, but Jeri posted a video on how the reprojection is done: (about 3 weeks ago.) g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 I hadn't seen that. Thanks! 16 hours ago, geneb said: The current hardware is way out ahead of the CastAR hardware you've got. One would hope so. Let's reconvene next year when hopefully we'll get our hands on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted January 9, 2021 Report Share Posted January 9, 2021 On 11/11/2019 at 10:16 AM, mikew said: Let's reconvene next year when hopefully we'll get our hands on it. ...or maybe the year after that. 2021 now, and while I've been receiving the Kickstarter updates, I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. The Discord channel is very 'noisy', so have you been keeping up with things? The last significant thing I heard was some new VC funding. For CastAR, I thought this was a negative thing since it went from a cool PC peripheral to some android-y ecosystem thing. But the main reason I'm posting this now is that I was doing a search for some old 'Graphics Workshop' SW and found this: http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html Great work! I didn't realize they did compression SW as well, so plenty to read on that site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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