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Snapchat World Lenses let you creep out your friends in 3D (CNET News)

2017-04-18
puking rainbows is so 2015 snapchat now lets you add rainbows clouds and other wacky 3d items into the real world the new feature is called world lenses and to find them in snapchat tap the screen when switched to the rear camera you'll see a number of different 3d shapes to move around within the image place the item down and walk around it in three-dimensional space or just have it creepily hover above your friends you might not have noticed but snapchats parent companies snap has been pushing augmented reality into our field of view for quite some time first we had actual lenses in the snapchat app like those dog ears or creepy face swaps you use with the front-facing camera then came spectacles sunglasses with a camera designed exclusively for snapchat they aren't AI yet but make a head-mounted wearable look pretty normal you can start using world lenses on snapchat now but different versions will appear daily and for selfie lovers don't fret this feature might also come to the front facing camera in time
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