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Facebook's new Frame/AR Studio kit mixes art and tech (CNET News)

2017-04-18
frame studio gives anyone with creative skills the ability to make fun photo frames to share on Facebook and it's available today globally to see this we put frames studio in the hands of artists all over the world and they builds frames for their local communities so when you visit a new place you can actually see these frames from the artists there the frames can make even everyday photos more engaging I posted a photo of Bethany on her birthday recently by adding frames to this this annual post becomes just a little bit more special and now I can post a video with the personalized frame to make it even more engaging and by adding augmented effects I can make her live birthday video even more meaningful this new content type brings AR to everyday life it connects art and technology to create new immersive experiences and these are just a few of the effects we've created for camera so far with the cameras apply effects platform artists and developers can create so much more and we're excited to announce a second tool AR studio that makes this all possible but imagine you had to build all of these things on your own imagine the kind of large engineering and design team you'd have to bring together to make that possible but a or studio simplifies all of this it allows you to create animated masks and interactive effects that respond to actual motion and data so let's take a look at a couple of my favorites this isn't widely known but I'm a gamer and yes my gamertag actually is Deb inator here's an example of an EA PC and console game Mass Effect Andromeda something I spent way too many hours on already uses our camera to build an immersive experience to talk about my gameplay let's take a look behind the scenes at AR studio with real-time face tracking you can layer a 3d mask to fit any face and you can have that mask actually responsive facial motions so when a mouth opens or head moves you can have it automatically respond without writing a line of code and when you flip the camera you can see stats for my latest mission using the scripting API you can create a leaderboard and dynamically put it in 3d space on top of that you can pan the phone and actually using sensor data you can experience the game visuals in augmented reality ya use AR studio to make this engaging effect possible for you soccer where's the rest of the world say football fans I would love to show you this effect from Manchester United it brings real-time data from an actual match that's happening and adds it to your video so when man.you scores you see the effects come up as goal and you hear the cheering and there's confetti so imagine having this effect available for your favorite sports team in the next game this even works on live video goofy is a way to express yourself through images so they say an image is worth a thousand words an animated one must be worth ten thousand so you can take this effect and it does something really interesting it actually responds so the interactions from viewers so when someone takes a hashtag or votes by a poll you can actually make it respond in the video itself goofy is making this available soon so make sure you try it out this is what we're releasing today with a our studio but it is the very first step in a long term journey and we're just getting started
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