The tabletop AR system from Tilt Five is currently on sale. The price of a single headset has been reduced to $249, which includes the game board, glass, wand and kickstand as well as a USB Type-C adapter, USB cable, and cleaning cloth. 3 pairs of glasses are priced $539 for the sale and, with a decently powerful enough gaming PC, you could conceivably run all three glasses from a single computer.
Tilt Five is based on Jeri Ellsworth technology’s she
more than a decade ago from Valve. The AR technology is innovative and works with current limitations to deliver wide-field of view images centered over or below the game board. Tilt Five could benefit from a partner like Nintendo, which would provide the missing content for the platform, while the hardware will give the giant the type of differentiated low-cost gaming experience it sells by the millions. A partner like Nintendo, for example, could provide the missing content for Tilt Five’s platform while the hardware would give the giant exactly the sort of differentiated low-cost gaming experience it sells by the millions.priced $389Right now, we can’t recommend Tilt Five as either a gaming or development platform partially because we lack significant time with the system, but like Meta cutting
off Quest 2, this is still a steep discount for a unique technology that might interest curious hobbyists or experimental developers interested in exploring a new way of expressing or enjoying their content with AR.
In fact, the way AR content is centered around Tilt Five’s board is similar to the way Apple Vision Pro sometimes centers content in SharePlay. When viewed that way, an enterprising developer using multiple Tilt Five glasses from a single PC in the same room could affordably test out a multiplayer gaming idea that might translate to other headsets.exfiltratedWe’ll be curious to see what happens with Tilt Five over the course of the year and hope an investor or buyer like Nintendo can help the startup execute its vision for around-the-table shared multiplayer AR gaming.