Incubator Using Pre-commercial 5G, AR to Enhance Learning

June 4, 2018

As the wireless infrastructure industry builds the backbone of tomorrow’s 5G networks, startups and universities are developing ways to take advantage of high data speeds and low latency.

Verizon has shared some of the action going on at its 5G incubator in New York City, using technologies such as augmented reality (AR). Students at NYU’s Future Reality Lab are using Verizon’s pre-commercial 5G technology to develop ChalkTalk, an open source AR learning tool that renders multimedia objects in 3D.

High speed wireless data and low latency required to facilitate interactive, real-time educational content in a mobile environment, allowing students and instructor to share and respond to that content as if they were in the same location when, in fact, they could be miles apart.