2019: The Year of the New Functionalities Both Snapchat’s Lens Studio and Facebook’s Spark AR are updated constantly, and the most anticipated changes are those involving new Augmented Reality functionalities which give AR creators the new possibilities for effect’s users to interact with them. Snapchat’s highlight moment was in April, with the launch of Lens […]

Instagram | Lenslist Highlights The best way to quickly find Christmas-themed AR Effects is to go through our dedicated Highlights. Every story has a click-through on the top which enables you to use the effect yourself (remember to open them on your mobile to use AR with your smartphone camera).   Lenslist’s Christmas Collection   […]

  Instagram | Lenslist Highlights The best way to quickly find Halloween-themed and Scary Instagram AR Effects is to go through our dedicated Highlights. Every story has a click-through on the top which enables you to use the effect yourself – but they’re available only on mobile app. HALLOWEEN 🎃 – SCARY 💀 – SCARY […]

Several dozen entries have been submitted. Most of the effects had a good quality, even those that didn’t fulfil conditions of the contest (eg. only U.S. residents could take part in it). Traditionally, the winners were announced in the form of the video. Congratulations!   Below you will find our favourites from all of the […]

Alexander Ward Coming up next is Alexander Ward from WardyWorks. Just like in the case of TechnologicalHippie, Alex’s convictions of artistic consciousness let us assume he has once gazed upon something as complex and full of colors that an ordinary human brain could not be capable of understanding. Crystallize, Luminous, and Awakening are in fact […]

For your convenience, we have tested over fifty of the pride-related effects and selected the 16 most appealing ones. Among them, you will find lenses coming from AR superstars such as Luke Hurd, Piotar Boa, Chris Price, Marc Wakefield, or Tom Emrich using all sorts of techniques like double exposure, body tracking, or implementation of […]

Once that happened, Marc’s career as a full time AR Creator was snowballing all the way through, starting with Bono from U2 placing an order and wearing an AR mask during the band’s worldwide tour, and ending with him being invited to F8 2018 and shaking a hand of the man himself, Mark Zuckerberg. Eduard […]

As all the videos from the conference are available at Facebook Developers Website, the best thing to do with this article was to keep it short and simple – just to point out everything new that had been announced, share some overall thoughts on and from the panels and add some references for what’s worth […]

Last year’s F8 Facebook Developer Conference was a big deal for AR, especially with the announcement of Instagram and Messenger branded AR effects platforms. It looks like during the upcoming F8 2019 Conference, Augmented Reality will maintain its important role in the further development of Facebook’s ‘Family of apps’ (consisting of WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and […]

Thanks to Spark AR Community, we’ve managed to make a collection of this year’s Valentine’s Day Facebook & Instagram Camera Effects. Congratulations to all of the contributors!   Diamond Hearts by Andrew Yanchurevich & Hearts by Carole Pavina Valentine’s Day by Lukas Graham & Valentines by Allan Berger Flickering Hearts by Jerzy Pilch & Heart […]