Edit Photos In Augmented Reality

3-D manipulation

By Popular Science Staff | Published Nov 29, 2014 2:09 AM EST

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For the first time, software <a href="https://www.popsci.com/category/best-whats-new/"><strong>geared toward average users</strong></a> will allow photo editors to move objects in 3D space. — For the first time, software **geared toward average users** will allow photo editors to move objects in 3D space. Carnegie Mellon University

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Common photo-editing software allows users to move objects—a flower from the left side of a photo to the right, for example—along a plane, but that’s about all they can do. Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley have developed the first application that lets users scale, rotate, and move onscreen objects in the 3-D space.

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