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CastAR: History, Art, Technology & Companies

castAR (formerly Technical Illusions) was a Palo Alto–based technology startup company founded in March 2013 by Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson. Its first product was to be the castAR, a pair of augmented reality and virtual reality glasses. castAR was a founding member of the nonprofit Immersive Technology Alliance.

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CastAR topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art, Technology and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around CastAR.

Related topics
16
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
19
Extracted relationships
45
Concept neighborhoods
8
Bridge connections
19

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

CastAR · 6 topics
History · 6 topics
Overview · 4 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
Woodinville, Washington, Washington (March 2013 (2013-03))
Industry
Technology, Augmented reality, Virtual reality
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Defunct
June 26, 2017 (2017-06-26)
Fate
Closed due to layoffs
Founder
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

CastAR

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How CastAR connects Entity context

The extracted context around CastAR shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, CastAR → Avalanche Software, CEO, COO, Darrell Rodriguez, Disney Infinity, In, In August, In September, LucasArts, Playground Global, President, Salt Lake City, Steve Parkis, The Walt Disney Company, They, Valve, While, Zynga Another extracted example is CastAR → After, Along, AR, Bay Area Maker Faire, Before, Editor's Choice, Educator's, Kickstarter, Playground Global, Projected Reality, Technical Illusions, The, This, VR. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

CastAR

Top relations

related to history · 18
CastAR → Avalanche Software, CEO, COO, Darrell Rodriguez, Disney Infinity, In, In August, In September, LucasArts, Playground Global, President, Salt Lake City, Steve Parkis, The Walt Disney Company, They, Valve, While, Zynga
related to castAR · 14
CastAR → After, Along, AR, Bay Area Maker Faire, Before, Editor's Choice, Educator's, Kickstarter, Playground Global, Projected Reality, Technical Illusions, The, This, VR
related to External links · 2
CastAR → KickstarterJeri Ellsworth, Official
Defunct · 1
CastAR → June 26, 2017 (2017-06-26)
Fate · 1
CastAR → Closed due to layoffs
Founded · 1
CastAR → Woodinville, Washington, Washington (March 2013 (2013-03))
Founder · 1
CastAR → Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson
Headquarters · 1
CastAR → Palo Alto, California, United States
Industry · 1
CastAR → Technology, Augmented reality, Virtual reality
Key people · 1
CastAR → Jeri Ellsworth, president and co-founder Rick Johnson, co-founder Steve Parkis, CEO

Important terminology

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Important terminology

technology reality company jeri ellsworth glasses founded augmented virtual kickstarter president startup 2013 former 2016 also parkis ceo employees palo

CastAR relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 45 structured relationships around CastAR. Examples in this analysis include CastAR → Defunct → June 26, 2017 (2017-06-26) and CastAR → Fate → Closed due to layoffs. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CastARDefunctJune 26, 2017 (2017-06-26)1.00infobox
CastARFateClosed due to layoffs1.00infobox
CastARFoundedWoodinville, Washington, Washington (March 2013 (2013-03))1.00infobox
CastARFounderJeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson1.00infobox
CastARHeadquartersPalo Alto, California, United States1.00infobox
CastARIndustryTechnology, Augmented reality, Virtual reality1.00infobox
CastARKey peopleJeri Ellsworth, president and co-founder Rick Johnson, co-founder Steve Parkis, CEO1.00infobox
CastARNumber of employees70+1.00infobox
CastARProductscastAR1.00infobox
CastARTypeStartup company1.00infobox
CastARWebsitecastar.com1.00infobox
CastARrelated to castARThe0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around CastAR bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Reality, Technology and Augmented. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • CastAR
    • Reality
    • Technology
    • Augmented
    • Virtual
    • Ellsworth
    • Glasses
    • Jeri
    • Founded
    • Startup
    • Former
    • Company
    • Alto
  • castar
    • Reality
    • Technology
    • Augmented
    • Virtual
    • Ellsworth
    • Glasses
    • Jeri
    • Founded
    • Startup
    • Former
    • Company
    • Alto
  • palo alto
    • Johnson
    • March
    • Palo
    • Rick
    • Founded
    • Startup
    • Company
    • Ellsworth
    • Jeri
    • Based
    • Employees
    • Illusions
  • startup company
    • Founded
    • Johnson
    • March
    • Rick
    • Company
    • Ellsworth
    • Jeri
    • Startup
    • Technology
    • Augmented
    • Former
    • Palo
  • jeri ellsworth
    • Ellsworth
    • Jeri
    • Founded
    • Startup
    • Augmented
    • Technology
    • Johnson
    • March
    • Palo
    • Rick
    • Website
    • Reality
  • kickstarter
    • Reality
    • Technology
    • Project
    • Technical
    • Two
    • Website
    • New
  • valve
    • Project
    • Team
    • Website
    • Work
    • Virtual
  • nonprofit
    • Product
    • Virtual
    • Reality
    • Technology

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For CastAR, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects CastAR with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
CastAR — History · splits 13 ⟂ 7
CastAR — CastAR · splits 13 ⟂ 7
CastAR — Overview · splits 15 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

CastAR

Nodes20
Edges19
Triples45
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.1
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around CastAR to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art, Technology & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — CastAR · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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