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> Actually it was an optional refund: you could keep waiting and maybe get some hardware eventually This wasnt the case! I was a backer and the actual email se

> Actually it was an optional refund: you could keep waiting and maybe get some hardware eventually This wasnt the case! I was a backer and the actual email sent stated: "we’ve decided to give everyone who was expecting castAR hardware a free pair of consumer castAR at release and will be fully reimbursing your Kickstarter backings if you follow the process we describe in a FAQ. You believed in us, so you get a castAR for free once the consumer product is released." https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system/posts/1445376 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/cast... You never gave an option to wait, never sent the "free" device, and (most annoyingly) didnt even inform castAR backers about the tilt5 kickstarter, so this is the first time I have heared about it! I appreciate castAR went bankrupt (and that you reimbursed backers beforehand - a most honorable thing to do in the kickstarter world), so not expecting tilt5 to honour the free device, just clarifying your confusion over what was actually stated :) p.s. what was the gift you sent out with the refund? I never got one as IIRC I would have had to pay for shipping to EU.

gumby 3y ago
I don’t remember what the gift was. Bottle opener or T shirt or something like that. That’s right, I had forgotten that Christina pointed out that tracking it was harder than just returning the money. But the two 10K backers part was right, which must have fuzzed my brain. I cough won’t comment on decisions made after I left that led to the bankruptcy.
- supermatt 3y ago
  These things happen. At least you didn’t screw your fans - which confuses me even more that you didn’t tell us about tilt5! I remember there was discussions around people setting up retroreflective walls with the markers - is that possible with the software yet? Feels like that would give some pretty effective cameraless AR for specific use cases
HWR_14 3y ago
If it makes you feel better, I checked with the people I knew who told me about the CsatAR kickstarter saga. They also never got the gift, or heard of it at all. But they also said they wouldn't hesitate to kickstart with Jeri again (because of the refunds) and none of them had heard about TiltFive.

gumby 3y ago

I don’t remember what the gift was. Bottle opener or T shirt or something like that. That’s right, I had forgotten that Christina pointed out that tracking it was harder than just returning the money. But the two 10K backers part was right, which must have fuzzed my brain. I cough won’t comment on decisions made after I left that led to the bankruptcy.

supermatt 3y ago
These things happen. At least you didn’t screw your fans - which confuses me even more that you didn’t tell us about tilt5! I remember there was discussions around people setting up retroreflective walls with the markers - is that possible with the software yet? Feels like that would give some pretty effective cameraless AR for specific use cases

HWR_14 3y ago

If it makes you feel better, I checked with the people I knew who told me about the CsatAR kickstarter saga. They also never got the gift, or heard of it at all. But they also said they wouldn't hesitate to kickstart with Jeri again (because of the refunds) and none of them had heard about TiltFive.