At this year’s PAX Prime, I had the opportunity to chat with David Henkel-Wallace (CEO) and Rick Johnson (co-founder and Chief Software Engineer) of Technical Illusions about their new product, castAR. castAR is a “projected augmented reality system that displays holographic-like 3D projections right in front of you.”

Throughout its inception Technical Illusions’ underlying goal has been to develop something that is fun, and after demoing it, I can tell you that that goal holds true.

You can listen to the interview below.

[Photo credit: Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group]

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