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About 15 years ago an unknown woman named Jeri Ellsworth showed up at a C64 retro show and blew everyone away by demonstrating a C64 video card she was working on. That video card morphed into what eventually became the C-One (aka CommodoreOne). She went on to design the highly successful C64DTV that went on sale in 2015, selling 70,000 in the first day and 250,000 overall in the first production alone. About a year or so later, a different version was adapted for the Radio Shack Hummer Off Road Racing DTV.
Jeri went on to work for Valve designing an augmented reality project called CastAR. Around this time her stardom exploded, getting a ton of mainstream coverage. Jeri was hobnobbing with the most famous tech people of all time. The entire team ended up being laid off at Valve, but Jeri was allowed to keep her project.
Jeri and her team had a successful Kickstart campaign that got early models to backers hands. Ultimately big fish got involved, so all Kickstart backers got refunds while keeping their early models and kept getting updates. The funding kept getting bigger and bigger, and the team kept getting bigger and bigger. Now in 2017, they are on the cusp of a major product release that could be a paradigm shift.
CastAR Finally Coming To Market In 2017 (Update: More Hires)
Update, 11/2/16, 7:20am PT: CastAR's hiring binge continues. The company announced that it's acquired the development team from Eat Sleep Play, "a leading creator of mobile and console game titles." In a press release, CastAR President and COO Steve Parkis said,
“Eat Sleep Play had a 20 year track record of pleasing gamers by contributing to countless top rated console and mobile franchises, from Twisted Metal to Warhawk and more and we are thrilled to have their experienced developers join the castAR Salt Lake City team."
If you haven't followed CastAR, now is the time to catch up.
Not bad for a woman who got her start in the C64 hobbyist community!
Jeri went on to work for Valve designing an augmented reality project called CastAR. Around this time her stardom exploded, getting a ton of mainstream coverage. Jeri was hobnobbing with the most famous tech people of all time. The entire team ended up being laid off at Valve, but Jeri was allowed to keep her project.
Jeri and her team had a successful Kickstart campaign that got early models to backers hands. Ultimately big fish got involved, so all Kickstart backers got refunds while keeping their early models and kept getting updates. The funding kept getting bigger and bigger, and the team kept getting bigger and bigger. Now in 2017, they are on the cusp of a major product release that could be a paradigm shift.
CastAR Finally Coming To Market In 2017 (Update: More Hires)
Update, 11/2/16, 7:20am PT: CastAR's hiring binge continues. The company announced that it's acquired the development team from Eat Sleep Play, "a leading creator of mobile and console game titles." In a press release, CastAR President and COO Steve Parkis said,
“Eat Sleep Play had a 20 year track record of pleasing gamers by contributing to countless top rated console and mobile franchises, from Twisted Metal to Warhawk and more and we are thrilled to have their experienced developers join the castAR Salt Lake City team."
If you haven't followed CastAR, now is the time to catch up.
Not bad for a woman who got her start in the C64 hobbyist community!