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Introducing Word Lens
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A one-minute demo of Word Lens, an iPhone app that translates printed text in real time by overlaying the translation on the camera view. It was later folded into Google Translate.
HN brings it up as an early, impressive augmented-reality translation demo and a wow moment before modern AI.
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