Looking at the F8 Keynote and the Computer Vision stuff that they are showing off now just reinforces to me that Snap is going in the right direction and is ahead. At this point it's who has the most data to feed the models and for me, that's Snapchat.
Imagine this being put in personal drones, etc.
Looks awesome -- I am suprised this is able to render on a phone but I guess they are getting powerful.
However, I would say this is not anything 'game-changing' or really that new. This looks a lot like basic Hololens's features, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a feature that could be cloned easily by FaceBook in a couple of months. To be honest, I feel like Microsoft is truly the pack leader in terms of AR but the Hololens's are so expensive I can't see them becoming a market leader
It's just shocking to me how much the aesthetic drawn up by sci-fi in comic books and movies have entered the mainstream. To me, it just seems so cheap, gaudy, and ugly. But I suppose the idea is to keep it frivolous to lock itself in the domain of 'fun' and 'jokes' to deflect seriousness and criticism.
These kinds of filters have been available in Asian apps like B612 and Snow for a while. No one I know in Japan has ever even spoken of Snap, let alone used it. And this is in the land of selfies and purikura.
This isn't talking about Spectacles, the glasses. It's Lenses, the feature where you can overlay images/videos onto your Snaps that did things like change your face or let people know where you are/what you're doing (depending on the lens).
I think the "poor" comment was meant to be a joke about the recent claim that the Snap CEO said that he didn't want to "expand into poor countries like India and Spain."
