Snapchat Rolls Out First TrueDepth-Enhanced AR Lenses for iPhone X Users

[carlsson]

This is the first steps we see towards camera integration with 3D. Really awesome and interesting!

"How would I look in that haircut?" "With a beard?" "With these glasses?" etc etc.

The future is coming.

 

[1050792]

OK Phil, courage!

Counter arguments?

 

[Paesano]

Great... Just what my GF needs.

 

[The Game 161]

So guessing it’s just via app update

 

[5105973]

Only for 13 year old girls.
I have no use for this rubbish.

I don't know about that. I am the mother of a 13 year old girl who thinks this is creepy. As in Pennywise the Clown levels of creepy. She thinks it must be for Millennials.

 

[The Game 161]

Only for 13 year old girls.
I have no use for this rubbish.

Actually loads of adults use it as well.

Don’t download the app then if you have no use for it or even comment on it in the first place.

Believe it or not people find it fun to use it.

 

[5105973]

I thought ARKit was supposed to be pretty easy to use? I made a Snapchat account with fake information to try this when I got my iPhone X and was really confused. The app has terrible UI/UX. This is what the kids are going crazy about? Deleted it. Kinda sad that we're two months away from WWDC and this is just now being implemented. Presumably Apple started working with them on this ahead of the iPhone X event last September, and even with their help it took this long? Not sure if that says more about Snapchat's team or ARKit.

So far, when I have played around with AR, filters like these and AR characters seem to work best when integrated into the camera apps on their respective devices. I haven't had the best of luck with downloaded apps. I think the manufacturers who include AR features are tying into dedicated processors or dedicated parts of the CPU to power these features and make them function a hair better than generic downloads. Samsung has something similar to this baked into its camera app. And Google has AR stickers that function very well once you get the hang of the interface.

 

[4jasontv]

Actually loads of adults use it as well.

Don’t download the app then if you have no use for it or even comment on it in the first place.

Believe it or not people find it fun to use it.

As an adult who uses snapchat let me try and explain to them the appeal.

Historically conversations were temporary. I would speak to you, and you would hear it. The ideas I expressed would stay with you, or not, but record of the conversation did not. It had a poetic quality no one considered because there was no other options. All conversations survived as memories and nothing more. Letters, crafted with pen and paper, invented a new form of communication that has real benefits to business and law as well as others. The thing is, letters took more work than talking. Until the 90's letters remained the primary form of documented conversation allowing memories to be attached - not to an idea - but to a real physical object.

Today we are smothered by our own words. People don't wait to see each other. Instead they share and send as soon as they think or see something. I don't mean to say this is intrinsically bad, or bad at all, but failure to wait decreases the content available for to face to face conversation.

Snapchat bridges these worlds. I can satisfy the urge to share right away without infusing an object with my thoughts. The conversation becomes more personal.

 

[deanthedev]

You don't see the irony do you? Apple created this API backed by sophisticated technology in the X, and the best use for it is this childish crap. IOW the tech has minimal utility beyond face recognition.

Meanwhile, entire "we care about pro customers" product lines languish for years with no updates. Apple is indeed a special company.

No irony at all. Just a bunch of whiners looking for another excuse to complain about Apple.

 

[1050792]

This is the first steps we see towards camera integration with 3D. Really awesome and interesting!

"How would I look in that haircut?" "With a beard?" "With these glasses?" etc etc.

The future is coming.

There are already Apps doing that in the App Store.

 

[5105973]

Actually loads of adults use it as well.

Don’t download the app then if you have no use for it or even comment on it in the first place.

Believe it or not people find it fun to use it.

I think it mainly is for adults. When I got my Samsung S8+ that has filters similar to this built into the camera app, my then 11 year old daughter and her friends played with it for awhile. I thought for a time my daughter might want my S8+ someday when I got the S9+, but she opted to keep her SE. She and her friends lost interest pretty fast in these gimmicks.

They also have zero interest in and even a contempt for social media. I think all the news stories about bullying and suicides on social media have made them very wary of venturing onto it. They're not as interested as even siblings who are just a couple years older.

But they have Millennial siblings and cousins who use these filters all the time for everything. I don't think some of them even know how to take photos that aren't filtered selfies.

I don't know what all tweens and young teens across all regions are like, but if the ones I know are any indication, social media is going to have to reinvent itself a bit when these younger ones come of age.

 

[A MacBook lover]

Ditto!

More garbage, what happened to you Apple? SAD.

Look at this guys post history - you spend your time in an apple forum all day hating on Apple - SAD!

 

[justperry]

You don’t have a use for it, yet you had to come here and waste your time bashing it. Besides, the world doesn’t revolve around you buddy.

1. This is MR, I can comment on whatever I want.
2. I am not wasting my time, holidays.
3. You are wasting your time to comment on my post.
4. I am right, these masks are for kids, seems like a lot of others agree here.
5. I know the world does not revolve around me, you're being silly.

 

[fairuz]

Man, really regretting not dumping $1K into an iPhone X now
The Snapchat filters can be fun, but do they need to be this realistic?

 

[dogslobber]

Now you can be a real life emoji!

 

[troy14]

Only for 13 year old girls.
I have no use for this rubbish.

Man you must be tons of fun.

 

[justperry]

Man you must be tons of fun.

What a nonsensical comment, so if I think those masks are rubbish I am a boring person.

 

[Cosmosent]

FYI, some Apple mobile devices can craft companion Depth Data Maps to the captured RGB color buffers ... it's available with the (Back) "Dual Camera" mode on the iPhone 7+, 8+, & X, as well as with the (Front) TrueDepth camera on the iPhone X.

1.) The Depth Data Maps can be used by Snapchat to improve "the fit" of what they already offered.

2.) The Depth Data Maps from the TrueDepth camera are Higher Quality than the Depth Data Maps from the Dual Camera.

3.) The primary application is Female Photo Modeling, NOT how Snapchat uses it !

4.) Secondary application is Sports Highlights, but it's a much tougher application to get right.

5.) Some third-party companies (I know of at least one) are developing Attachment Depth Data Cameras, for existing smartphones ... think of it as a "Full Res" Depth Data Map (+ the Camera Calibration Info).

6.) Depth Data is a VERY HOT topic @ Apple, Samsung, & Google right now !

7.) Depth Video / Portrait Mode Videos are just-around the corner !

 

[MrGimper]

As an adult who uses snapchat let me try and explain to them the appeal.

Historically conversations were temporary. I would speak to you, and you would hear it. The ideas I expressed would stay with you, or not, but record of the conversation did not. It had a poetic quality no one considered because there was no other options. All conversations survived as memories and nothing more. Letters, crafted with pen and paper, invented a new form of communication that has real benefits to business and law as well as others. The thing is, letters took more work than talking. Until the 90's letters remained the primary form of documented conversation allowing memories to be attached - not to an idea - but to a real physical object.

Today we are smothered by our own words. People don't wait to see each other. Instead they share and send as soon as they think or see something. I don't mean to say this is intrinsically bad, or bad at all, but failure to wait decreases the content available for to face to face conversation.

Snapchat bridges these worlds. I can satisfy the urge to share right away without infusing an object with my thoughts. The conversation becomes more personal.

Yeah, I get the point of Instant Messages and pictures, I just don't get why you have to do it while looking like a bunny, fairy, dog, unicorn etc.

 

[kahkityoong]

Wtf is it with young girls and this tongue poking out thing?

 

[GregJohn]

This is the first steps we see towards camera integration with 3D. Really awesome and interesting!

"How would I look in that haircut?" "With a beard?" "With these glasses?" etc etc.

The future is coming.

Ive always wanted tech to get to the point we could legitimately see what we looked like with different hairstyles, colour, and online clothes shopping? ability to see it on yourself. I hope these types of things come soon.

Also snapchat is sloooooow in adopting this. Definitely not an AR kit issue, but to be honest I tried the 2 filters the have and was not blown away by it. Yea it looks better and less cartoon like but its still needs work and placement/tracking was a bit wacky.

 

[BruceEBonus]

When these electronically enhanced ugly people have kids ... the kids will be born ugly because they’re too young to have filters on. Which means the parents will have to wear VR goggles to look at them at their best. Thought of that Apple?

 

[McG2k1]

Why are women always sticking their tongues out in 'quirky' selfies. Are they just trying to show how different they are than all those other stuffy women who are also sticking their tongues out? At least this girl has a clean tongue lol.

 

[Kaibelf]

OMG birthdays at McDonald's will be so much more fun.

I never get comments like this. Clearly to use this feature they will have to be able to afford the iPhone X and don’t need to have parties at a fast food restaurant and clearly Snapchat is still worth billions, so perhaps your concept of what makes money is not accurate. That’s why Evan Spiegel is worth billions and we aren’t. On a side note, those millennial women you think are so useless will be replacing us in the workforce and hiring/firing your children so perhaps a little long term perspective would be beneficial.

 

[fairuz]

Why are women always sticking their tongues out in 'quirky' selfies. Are they just trying to show how different they are than all those other stuffy women who are also sticking their tongues out? At least this girl has a clean tongue lol.

To be fair, Albert Einstein did that too, but maybe his idea was more original back then.