Augmented Reality (AR) is getting increasingly popular with time. Irrespective of whether it is AR-inspired video games or the enhancement of our shopping experience using the technology, AR is slowly permeating all sectors of the digital ecosystem. Now, there is yet another practical use of augmented technology in the form of copy-pasting the real world.
Developer Cyril Diagne has created a video that showcases how AR can help in capturing visuals from your everyday life and pasting them into a variety of digital documents. Yes, you heard that right!
Using just your smartphone, you can copy real-life items and paste them online digitally. All you have to do is point your smartphone at the things that you wish to copy and then drag them to your PC. This new technology does not necessitate spending hours on Photoshop or emailing the final results to yourself.
Simply cut and paste whatever you want from your surroundings to a digital document seamlessly!
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As is evident, this brand-new application of AR is super practical and can prove to be quite useful in our day-to-day life. For instance, you will easily be able to see how a piece of furniture will look in a specific space or corner of your house.
Alternatively, you can see how makeup or a piece of clothing will look on you when you wear it. Simply put, rather than making digital things appear in the physical world you live in, this technology will necessarily bring your everyday physical world into the digital domain.
Diagne has also shared a cut and paste demo in the video, where he highlights some important features of this prototype. As shared by the developer, it will take the users 2.5 seconds approximately to copy an item and about 4 seconds after that to paste it. However, he believes that it is possible to enhance these speeds with more tests.
Although this development is in the prototype and research stages right now, several companies already seem to be working along similar lines.