Instagram AR Basics: How to Use and Publish Branded Effects

A few days ago Instagram AR beta was opened. It means that from that moment everyone, including brands, can publish their own AR effects on Instagram. It is certainly a big thing because of a huge popularity of Instagram mobile app. In fact, an effect created in Spark AR (Instagram’s AR editor) can be seen […]

Getting Started with Augmented Reality Marketing

Augmented Reality (AR), is a technology that puts a computer-generated image over a user’s view of the real world, thus enhancing or changing it in a particular way. Unlike VR, it doesn’t replace the real world completely but interacts with it instead. It has already been used in medicine, military or factories. A few years […]

Influencer AR Mixed Marketing – Emergence of a New Social Media Market

There are dozens of articles vaguely covering the topic of convergence of AR tech and Influencer marketing techniques, which “will influence the future social media trends”, hanging somewhere in the long-forgotten corners of the web, covered in dust and carefully made assumptions. If that is the case, why would you want to read another one […]

Sports Events’ AR Playbook

One year ago, I’ve started my adventure with Lenslist Blog by preparing the collection of Best Lenses of World Cup 2018. A lot of great AR effects were created for this special occasion, but frankly, it wasn’t that surprising to me. Why? Because sports events are a huge part of the entertainment industry and they […]

AR Revolution for Brands on Instagram

If you are an Instagram user there is no doubt you have come across Augmented Reality (AR) effects while going through your Instagram Stories. At the moment, only individual Creators enrolled for closed beta program are able to create and publish such effects using Facebook’s Spark AR platform. All funny masks, 3D models and virtual […]

AR Trends Among Music Bands

No, this article won’t cover the topic of the Artist and Repertoire (A&R) division in the music industry, responsible for scouting for new talents and overseeing the development of recording artists. Instead, let’s point our eyes and eardrums (yup, those can move, too) in the direction of the true AR, the Augmented Reality! Lately, AR […]

News Feed AR ads

AR ads in News Feed is Facebook’s functionality yet-to-come which has already been tested by a few brands during the last year. It presents itself as the next stage of the development of social media AR, pushed by two main contributors: Facebook and Snapchat. After the announcement of Messenger & Instagram branded AR effects during […]

AR + Messenger: What Is Now (Part 2)

Although, as it’s already been said in the first part of this article (AR + Messenger: What Will Be), branded AR effects are still yet to come to Messenger Chatbots, there is a way to use Facebook Camera Effects inside them effectively. There are not many case studies of such usage, but existing ones are […]

AR + Messenger: What Will Be (Part 1)

F8 2018 Conference: back to the future Sometimes, in order to see the future, we have to take a look back. This is the case when we want to talk about Facebook Messenger custom Camera Effects. Announced in detail and with a few case studies during the 2018 F8 Conference, the integration of AR with […]