Errazuriz said the project provides an example of how the pandemic will encourage new ways to be creative. "The use cases described by such a large and diverse group of creatives made a lot of sense and motivated a couple of friends and me to turn the prototype into a real application that anyone can use," Diagne said.Ī number of projects have employed AR recently in response to the limited real-life interactions caused by coronavirus lockdowns.ĭanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has created the AR Wunderkammer works, which enables people to bringing rare natural matter, including a burning sun and a sprightly puffin, into their homes.ĭesigner Sebastian Errazuriz, meanwhile, launched an online exhibition that allows collectors to preview artworks in their home. Users can then drop the isolated image into a computer programme This time he was surprised by the response to the prototype, with many saying how it could be helpful for a number of tasks like creating presentations, content for social media and online selling, and decided to turn it into an application.
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"AR Copy Paste originates from personal research in interaction design, exploring how machine learning can help make our interactions with digital systems more natural," Diagne explained.ĪR Copy Paste is the latest in a series of tests created by Diagne, a Google artist-in-residence. It detects objects in the real world and isolates the image so that the background is automatically removedīASNet enables the app to detect the object and remove the background, while SIFT matches coordinates on the phone with the computer screen, to ensure the object is placed where the user wants it.
The designer used open-source technologies developed as part of two research projects: the Boundary-Aware Salient Object Detection (BASNet) and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT).
Related story Olafur Eliasson creates augmented-reality cabinet of curiositiesĪR Copy Paste can be used on Android, iOS and desktops in conjunction with a number of apps, such as Adobe Creative Suite, Powerpoint, Keynote, MS Paint and Google Docs.