When Apple first announced the iPhone X, it also announced that special
Snapchat Lenses will be made available for the flagship smartphone in the future.
These particular
Snapchat Lenses are also able to blur the background and even include moving 3D objects in videos.
To make the new
Snapchat Lenses, Apple had to share the visual facial mapping data collected by the TrueDepth camera.
The three iPhone X
Snapchat Lenses are the Mardi Gras mask, a Day of the Dead Skull and the gold - plated eye cover, according to The Verge.
Right now, only the iPhone X can use the three new
Snapchat Lenses.
The iPhone X's exclusive AR
Snapchat Lenses were first shown off at the iPhone X keynote last year.
Remember those AR
Snapchat Lenses that Craig Federighi hilariously demonstrated at the Apple event last year to show off the company's new TrueDepth technology?
To start creating
Snapchat Lenses on desktop, users will have to go to snapchat.com/Create.
Snapchat lenses let you place images over real world photos, previously limited to selfies for things like animal masks on your face.
The Snapchat Lenses take advantage of the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera system to stick AR masks to users» faces more accurately.
The silent update means iPhone X owners who use Snapchat will see augmented reality masks pop up in the app that make use of Apple's advanced facial mapping technology to superimpose the mask onto the user's face more realistically and track motion more accurately.Apple first demoed the AR
Snapchat Lenses at its iPhone X event last year, as part of its on - stage TrueDepth technology unveiling.
Snapchat Lenses made AR popular and Pokémon Go took it even further into the mainstream.
Starting today and for a limited time, three new
Snapchat Lenses featuring the first partner Pokémon from the Kanto region will start to roll out around the world, beginning with Bulbasaur.
These Pokémon
Snapchat lenses will be available for only a short time, so don't wait on having fun with the first partner Pokémon from Kanto!
Kendall Jenner and Willow Smith goof around with various Be Cool Be Nice
Snapchat lenses; Image: Phil Poynter for Garage Magazine
Jeep ® brand's custom «Jeep Hair, Don't Care»
Snapchat lens lets fans see themselves behind the wheel of an open - air Jeep Wrangler
The Snapchat lens and celebratory video were created in partnership with Society Agency, the social AOR for FCA US LLC.
April 4, 2017, Auburn Hills, Mich. - The Jeep ® brand declared April 4 (4/4) as «Jeep 4x4 Day» last year, and this year fans can once again celebrate the officially recognized holiday through a custom interactive «Jeep Hair, Don't Care»
Snapchat lens, available on the social media platform for 24 hours on Tuesday, April 4 (4/4), in addition to posting photos and following along on the brand's social channels, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram through its #Jeep4x4Day hashtag.
You can finally fling VR flower seeds into your real world through
a snapchat lens and watch them grow.
Not exact matches
When little Tommy has the ability to pop in contact
lenses to play in a virtual world and doesn't come out of his room for a month, that generation of parents will express the same type of concern their parents did about spending time on
Snapchat.
Snapchat will start pushing «sponsored
lenses» later this month to brands, which can pay $ 450,000 for a
lens on a normal day or $ 750,000 on a «peak day» — basically a holiday — like Halloween or Thanksgiving.
Just as
Snapchat has what it calls «filters» that users can add to their photos and videos — making themselves look like cartoon animals, for example, or producing virtual rainbows that pour out of a person's mouth — Facebook's Camera also has filters, or «
lenses.»
The tech giant unsuccessfully attempted to buy
Snapchat multiple times, and since then, the Los Angeles app has been on a rampage making social media fun again with features like stickers, augmented reality
lenses and neat geofilters.
«With sponsored
lenses becoming a big hit,
Snapchat is also the first company that has monetized the beginning of augmented reality marketing.»
«To engage those often hard - to - reach consumers,
Snapchat has expanded its advertising portfolio over the past year to include a wider array of video ads, and more sponsored geo - filters and sponsored
lenses.»
By selling video ads, sponsored geo - filters and sponsored augmented - reality
lenses,
Snapchat has built itself the foundation for a quickly - growing advertising business.
Lenses are augmented reality animations that users can «wear» as digital masks in their
Snapchat posts.
In addition,
Snapchat has rolled out numerous new ad formats, including sponsored
lenses that let users overlay graphics and animations over their selfies and its native - video ad product called 3V, which stands for Vertical, Video, Views.
This is not
Snapchat's first attempt to monetize filters, as it tried with the «
lens store.»
At the end of last year, Snap introduced Lens Studio, a platform that allows developers to create AR
lenses for
Snapchat.
Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality
Lenses, not just play dress - up.
For example, in 2017 one of the most popular Bitmoji
lenses was the
Snapchat hotdog
lens — a dancing, animated hotdog that could be inserted into Snaps and Stories.
Snapchat launches iPhone X-exclusive
Lenses that use the handset's TrueDepth camera to look more life - like...
The designer is also a DJ, has recently partnered with
Snapchat on a custom selfie
lens and is set to soon debut costumes for the New York City Ballet.
The Jeep brand's custom
Snapchat «Jeep Hair, Don't Care»
lens lets fans see themselves behind the wheel of an open - air Jeep Wrangler.
The following day, April 5, the Jeep brand's «Jeep Hair, Don't Care»
lens will remain active on
Snapchat through October, exclusively accessible to consumers by scanning unique Snap code (QR codes) provided to fans at Jeep brand events throughout the year, in addition to appearing intermittently on the Jeep brand's official social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Jeep brand official blog.
Snapchat will be releasing new
Lenses featuring Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle.
Why stop at just using the facial recognition to recommend glasses, when you could do full augmented reality try ons, similar to how
Snapchat does its face - mapped
lenses?
Developers retain ownership of
Lenses they create, though grant
Snapchat the right to use them.
Today
Snapchat launches Custom
Lenses, exp
That's because
Snapchat won't display these Community
Lenses in its camera unless businesses pay a partnered creative agency to build them a special effect and then buy Sponsored Lens ads from Snap.
Though for now the platform only lets you make World
Lenses and not selfie masks, more AR toys will give
Snapchat a much - needed boost to sharing and viewing at a time when user growth has slowed to a trickle in the face of Instagram's competition.
You'll immediately notice these
lenses more tightly sticking to your face, particularly around the jawline, at least going off
Snapchat's provided photos and videos.
That product development strength is on display with today's launch, and apparent from Facebook's insistence on showing reporters forthcoming special effects that one - up
Snapchat's iconic
lenses.
Snapchat tells me it will have a report button for users who need to flag
Lenses as problematic, and a human moderation team will monitor reports and deactivate offending
Lenses.
Snapchat also plans to offer Lens Studio Challenges, where it will provide an unspecified reward for developers who create
Lenses that match a proposed theme or use case.
Snapchat tells me the pricing is designed to be both affordable enough for the masses so custom
lenses generate revenue, and to deter spam and flippant use of the platform.
Snapchat should both learn from what Community
Lenses prove popular and build more like them, but also promote those that are a hit rather than forcing developers to grow an audience on their own.
Now between
Snapchat's Lens Studio for developers, Custom
Lenses for users and its newfound momentum after a blockbuster earnings report,
Snapchat finally seems poised to fight back against its clones.
Snapchat historically resisted working with established developers, but recently has struck more partnerships particularly around augmented reality
lenses and marketing service providers.