Left to right: CastAR's Steve Parkis, Jeri Ellsworth, Rick Johnson, and Darrell Rodriguez.
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CastAR opens Salt Lake City studio led by former Disney Infinity developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Augmented reality startup CastAR is opening a new mixed reality studio in Salt Lake City today, with talent recruited from the former developers of Disney’s Infinity toy-game franchise.

Disney closed its Avalanche Studios division in Salt Lake City in May after it decided to end its Disney Infinity toys-to-life products because of slumping sales. But Palo Alto, Calif.-based CastAR saw that as an opportunity and it has hired a number of the developers who previously worked on Infinity.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.