Verizon shared more details on a collaborative effort pertaining to an AR learning tool called ChalkTalk, undertaken by NYU’s Future Reality Lab using the carrier’s pre-commercial 5G Incubator at New York City’s Alley. Dr. Ken Perlin and his students developed ChalkTalk as a way to utilize AR to enhance education lessons with immersive visuals.

The idea is to create a virtual space for visual representations that are interactive and keep up with the instructor, teacher, or professor in real time. That way, as the individual leading the class moves through a lesson, the students are able to gain a deeper understanding of what is being taught but that presents real problems, too.

Latency and throughput with current-generation networks will work, to a degree, but also hold the solution back. By utilizing Verizon’s pre-commercial 5G technology, Perlin was able to create the more robust and immersive experience offered with his open-source ChalkTalk tool.