Tuesday 24 September 2019

Jeri Ellsworth’s unique AR glasses are back from the dead

In 2013, we brought you the story of how two Valve engineers walked away with the company’s augmented reality glasses. In 2017, long after they blew past their Kickstarter goal, we reported how their company wound up dead.

But now, more than six years later, inventor Jeri Ellsworth is trying the same idea again — a pair of lightweight AR glasses that project their light onto a reflective game board, letting you play 3D board games, video games and interactive Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that seem to live inside — or leap up off of — your table. Her new company Tilt Five is launching on Kickstarter today with kits starting at $299.

It’s still as intriguing and limiting an idea as it originally was in 2013. On the plus...

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