As this demo from developer Cyril Diagne demonstrates, augmented reality can be the perfect tool to quickly grab visuals from the real world and paste them into digital documents [full video and story:

I’m mad he didn’t paste the laptop at the end

Imagine trying to explain this sorcery to people sitting in the dark, dying of papercuts, 100 years ago

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This is the biggest productivity cheat code right now. Kiss reading documents goodbye. You can get an instant summary of any document with this tool.

Not sure I'd qualify that as augmented reality.. it's basically just a hand scanner and wireless mouse interface... AR is supposed to tell me about things/people I'm looking at and of 'course try to sell me stuff while I'm wondering about. (minority report style)

Wow. Mind-boggling.

cool

Probably copying and pasting between two devices gonna happen

The rising sun casts an Impressionist's eye on the possibilities of augmented reality--an artistic endeavour that blurs the digital and physical worlds.

Wow, impressive 👏

The Verge article is 3 year old. I wonder why this is not widely available now