You move your game piece, and it breathes fire.   Or a chasm opens, in the table.  Or a creepy fog wafts out of your hand and settles over the surface.

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Sound dreamlike?  It’s the (augmented) reality of Tilt Five’s new holographic gaming system.

Tilt Five, based in the Bay Area, has combined the elements of a traditional board game with video gaming, through augmented reality.  And to say that they’re just wrapping up a highly successful Kickstarter campaign would be an understatement.

Tilt Five Co-Founder and CEO Jeri Ellsworth says Tilt Five’s holographic gaming system is the end result of years of work in augmented reality.

Launching their Kickstarter campaign, their goal was to raise $450,000, to manufacture the product.

Backers supplied that amount in less than a day–and kept going.  Tilt Five now has plans to ship their holographic gaming system in 2020.

Meanwhile, their Kickstarter campaign wraps up at midnight, Pacific time, on Monday, October 28, 2019.

Their “stretch goal”?   To raise $2,000,000.

Jeri told the story of Tilt Five, offered a look into the creative process behind the game and explained some of the uses for the system, beyond simply gaming.

On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear:

• How Jeri first became interested in creating in augmented reality;

• Why the Tilt Five system is designed to be all-inclusive for anyone who would like to use it;

• What the first moments of Tilt Five’s demo are like;

• How the games progress,in the system;

• The more advanced content available as users get accustomed to the system;

• Interactions unique to the Tilt Five system;

• One good creative mistake which Jeri made, while developing the new system;

• An engineering challenge (and a triumph!) involved in the project design;

• One of Jeri’s favorite moments, so far, in the creative journey.

• Other professional uses for the kit, in addition to gameplay;

• A unique property in the system that makes it educator-friendly;

• What happens for Jeri and her team after the Kickstarter campaign closes.