Cyril Diagne created a sufficiently mind-bending augmented reality app that allows real-world objects to be copied and pasted directly into a desktop application as 2D images.
https://twitter.com/cyrildiagne/status/1256916982764646402
AR Cut & Paste uses BASNet for object detection + background removal, and employs some OpenCV tricks to facilitate pasting accurately to a display. Source code for the Expo/React Native app is available on github. Check out the Twitter thread for more on how it’s done.
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Thanks a lot for sharing the AR Copy Paste demo!
For information, it’s now possible to subscribe to the beta test program: https://arcopypaste.app