PTC to Enlarge Vuforia Platform with Distant Presence Competence

SANTA CLARA, Calif, May 31: -PTC has revealed from Augmented World Expo that the Vuforia® platform, the most extensively utilized software platform for augmented reality (AR) usage expansion, will develop to comprise a novel distant presence competence for creators, customers, and trades.

Vuforia Project Chalk will transport a novel element of interactivity to a video call, in which one person can digitally explain another’s physical setting. The consequence is one person can deliver leadership to another from a distant place with comparable efficiency as being in the similar physical area.

Project Chalk will allow people of all ages to conclude unaccustomed or difficult responsibilities with leadership from associates, family, contemporaries, and specialists. For instance, diligent parents can help children with homework or projects at home, do-it-your-selfers can obtain help from each other or an indigenous handyman, and families with aged members can deliver leadership to conquer routine difficult responsibilities.

Furthermore, Project Chalk will allow a wide range of mobile workers – from facility experts to sales personnel – to troubleshoot and solve difficulties with augmented effortlessness, swiftness, and accurateness.

“We see Project Chalk as a fundamentally disruptive form of remote communication that will be well received across multiple sectors and for multiple use cases,” revealed Eric Abbruzzese, principal analyst, ABI Research, adding, “We envision this capability being used beyond the enterprise on everyday devices across platforms.”

Project Chalk utilizes established computer vision expertise in the Vuforia platform to distribute an innovation knowledge across an extensive variety of phones, tablets, and digital eyewear. Creators will be competent to integrate Project Chalk competences in prevailing Vuforia-powered uses for iOS, Android, and Windows using Vuforia SDKs. Furthermore, Project Chalk will be made accessible as a standalone use through app stores. The application will sustain a freemium model with proposals for both private and commercial usage.

“Vuforia Project Chalk will deliver a new mode of communication with the potential to improve our personal and professional lives,” stated Jay Wright, president, Vuforia, adding, “While we understand its use for helping others, Project Chalk will also enable a new generation of AR applications for people to create digital content to be shared on the physical world.”

Vuforia Project Chalk is estimated to be obtainable for creators in Vuforia SDKs, and for customers and enterprises via app stores in Fall 2017.