One of Snapchat’s features is Lenses, in which the camera on your phone will be able to detect your face and introduce all kinds of fun and wacky filters, like turning yourself into a dog, cat, or swapping faces with a friend, and so on. However the company is taking its Lenses to the next level by introducing the World Lenses feature.
Unlike the current Lenses that seem to be focused more on your face, World Lenses will focus on everything else around you and is basically a showcase of what augmented reality technology can do. As you can see in the screenshots above, it will add effects to your current surroundings, like making it snow or making a cloud puke rainbows.
At the moment there are apparently only 7 filters available, including an election one for those in the US. However we expect that with Lenses, Snapchat will eventually introduce more over time, but these are the ones available right now. It has also been speculated that the feature is sort of like an introduction to Snapchat’s Spectacle glasses and how it could work.
In any case it does seem like a fun feature, so if you do use Snapchat, you should be able to check it out by updating the app to the latest version and firing it up.
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