Augmented-reality pioneer Vuforia just released its first ARKit app
Vuforia Chalk is a free download from the App Store, with Android support coming at some point in the future.
The key to Chalk is that when you draw over an image, the circles or arrows you draw are fixed to points in reality, meaning that if you move your camera away and back over it, it will stay in place.
For consumers, it's free, but Vuforia eventually wants to sell this software to other businesses for use in call center and help applications.
Augmented-reality pioneer Vuforia just released its first ARKit app
Both sides see the work to be done at the same time, and when one side draws on the image, the other participant sees it, too.
Its key feature is it allows one side to draw over what the other participant's camera sees. In this case, the person on the left is telling the other side how to make espresso.
But instead of the app putting you face-to-face, one side is supposed to use their phone or tablet's camera to look at a specific problem.
Chalk is a videoconference app. You call someone else with the app to get started using it.
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