The updates sound like they could be the foundations of a shared virtual universe of the type that Facebook recently decided was so fundamental to its future that it even rebranded the company as Meta. One set of tools lets Lenses be anchored to any location around the world: Lego has used it to build virtual ferris wheels, rollercoasters and slides around the streets of central London.Īnother feature lets two users of the same AR lens interact with each other for the first time, occupying the same virtual spaces and playing the same games. The strength of our AR glasses is the AR platform behind it, met with hundreds of hundreds of thousands of developers, millions of lenses, and really, really advanced tools that continue to evolve rapidly.”Ĭore to that evolution is an update called Lens Cloud that lets developers for both Snapchat and Spectacles build AR experiences that are firmly placed in the real world. “It just changes the way you interact when you can walk around and use your hands, and see computing brought to life.

But, Spiegel says, the next generation is already in development. Snap’s latest Spectacles have only shipped in prototype form to creators around the world: with a 15- to 30-minute battery life and a severely restricted display, they are intended to inspire creators with the possibility of future versions of the same hardware. So we believe that trying to break some of those constraints, and go into a truly immersive and interactive AR experience, will be really important in the future.” “And that’s on this tiny little screen that you’re looking through and you’re using your thumbs on. “There’s now like 250 million people engaging with AR everyday on the smartphone alone,” Spiegel said. He cites statistics that “over 90% of Snapchatters say they feel comfortable, happy, and connected when they use Snapchat”, which is “ranked the No 1 happiest platform when compared to other apps”.

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