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Tilt Five is a Fremont-based technology startup company founded in August 2017 by Jeri Ellsworth, Jamie Gennis, Amy Herndon, and Anthony Aquilio using technology acquired from the former startup CastAR (also founded by Jeri). Their product, a tabletop augmented reality system was announced on Kickstarter in September of 2019 ^[5], reaching it's funding goal of $450,000 in less than 24 hours ^[6], and closing it's campaign with $1,767,301 pledged ^[7].

History

Tilt Five originally estimated shipping Kickstarter units in June of 2020 ^[8], however the development was delayed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, and the subsequent impact on global supply chain and office working conditions resulting in first Kickstarter units shipping in December 2021, with the last Kickstarter units shipping in January 2023 after which Tilt Five began shipping post-kickstarter consumer units. In addition to the funding received from Kickstarter, Tilt Five closed a $7.5m ^{[9] [10]} series A funding round in October 2020.

Technology

The Tilt Five holographic system comprises three primary parts: Glasses, Game Board, and Wand

Glasses

The glasses house a pair of LCOS pico-projectors, optical components, and vision processing electronics. Technical specifications ^[11] are as follows:

Game Board

The gameboard comes in two sizes, "LE" (800x800mm) and "XE" (800mm x 1066.7mm), constructed from retroreflective material with a folding cardboard backing. Both board sizes fold for transport, and the "XE" includes a folding kickstand that allows one of the folding segments of the board to be raised at an angle.

The outer perimeter of the board has a pattern of circular markers which is used by the glasses to determine relative position. 3D images projected by the glasses are only visible in the area of the board - they can appear 'above' and 'below' the board, but must have retro-reflective material 'behind' them.

Wand

The wand is tracked by the glasses, allowing 6DOF interaction with the 3D objects projected by the glasses. It comprises a main body, and a black protrusion which houses the IR LEDs used by the glasses to track the wand. Two wands can be simultaneously connected to one pair of glasses, and multiple wands (up to 8) can be present in the field of view of the glasses without tracking issues. Technical specifications ^[11] are as follows:

Content

First Party

Tilt Five has published or announced a number of first party applications for use with the glasses, most notably Takenoko ^[12] and (announced) Catan ^[13]. In additional Tilt Five has published a further 8 'lab ^[14]' projects that it describes as example projects or tech demos.

Third Party

31 titles are listed in the official Tilt Five catalog ^[15], with a further 16 'lab' titles. Since all Tilt Five kits can be used for development, there are also a number of third party titles not listed in the official catalog, including open source projects published on GitHub.

Development Kit

All Tilt Five kits can be used for development in conjunction with SDKs published by Tilt Five. Tilt Five currently publishes ^[16] SDKs for the Unity and Unreal game engines as well as a Native Development Kit (NDK) for low level (C language) development. In addition to the officially published game engine SDKs, a third party SDK has been developed for the Godot game engine based on the Tilt Five NDK ^[17]

Reception

Tilt Five was released to generally positive reviews ^{[18] [19] [20] [21]}, praising their lightweight form factor, wide field of view, and potential for collaborative use. Though critics also sight limited content availability and cable length as potential issues.

See also

• Augmented reality
• Display technology
• Smartglasses

References

Category:Augmented reality Category:Companies based in Fremont, California Category:Display technology Category:Kickstarter-funded products Category:Virtual reality companies