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AR Cut and Paste Demo: Capture an Object With Your Phone, Throw it Onto Your Computer’s Screen

In the sci-fi series The Expanse, set in the 2300s, characters carry smartphone-like devices and are often seen “throwing” data from their device onto a nearby screen for group viewing. Here in humble ol’ 2020, designer Cyril Diagne has figured out how to do it, without the histrionic swiping gesture performed on the TV show, and including a capturing step:

Diagne calls it “AR Cut Paste” (though some have commented it’s really copy and paste) and has made the code freely available on Github.

https://www.core77.com/posts/98485/AR-Cut-and-Paste-Demo-Capture-an-Object-With-Your-Phone-Throw-it-Onto-Your-Computers-Screen