Snapchat launches Friendship profiles
Friendship profiles highlight your friendship with someone on Snapchat, making it easy to find your favorite memories and the important information you’ve saved over time.
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Snap brings its AR lenses and face filters to YouTube, Skype, Twitch & other video chat apps
The makers of Snapchat released a free desktop app that lets anyone experience the magic and fun of augmented reality effects and face filters in their live streams and video chats.
Snap unveils interactive shows that let you step inside a scene to experience it for yourself
Snap has launched exclusive shortform shows created by professional storytellers. Not only do they use lenses and filters, but offer interactivity as well—you can swipe up to step inside a scene and experience it for yourself.
How to subscribe to publishers and creators in Snapchat’s Discover tab while you watch
Snapchat makes it easy to subscribe to your favorite publishers and creators in the Discover tab with a single tap, without stopping watching their videos and posts, here’s how.
Snapchat’s redesign caused daily active user base to fall for the first time since its inception
While Snap has reversed many visual changes in the app, the controversial redesign has led to “a slightly lower frequency of use among our user base,” as CEO Evan Spiegel put it.
Happy anniversary: 2 years ago, Instagram shamelessly copied Stories from Snapchat
Can you believe it’s been two years since Facebook-owned Instagram launched Stories, a shameless pixel-by-pixel copy of Snapchat’s trademark ephemeral messaging feature?
Internal app store of third-party gaming titles is apparently coming to Snapchat this fall
Snap’s been dipping its toes into the waters of gaming. This fall, it’s going to take the plunge by launching a new platform that’ll let developers create games playable on Snapchat.
Video: unboxing Snapchat’s new water-resistant Spectacles
Snapchat (or Snap Inc., really) last week launched Spectacles V2, the second generation of its quirky sunglasses with a built-in camera. There’s a lot to like about the new model, including a slimmer frame and charging case, water-resistance, and the ability to take photos. Our resident video guru Harris recently snagged a pair and put together an unboxing video that offers a great overview of the product.
Snapchat’s new $150 Spectacles are water resistant, less bulky than the original
Thanks to water resistance, Snap’s second-generation sunglasses take photos and video in shallow water and are slightly less bulky on the face than the original.
Snapchat launches AR games you can play using touch, motion and facial expressions
Found alongside Lenses in the latest version of Snapchat, Snappables allow you to play augmented reality games with your friends using touch, motion and even facial expressions.
Your Stories are headed back to the Discover page as part of a new Snapchat test
Snapchat is redesigning its controversial redesign in order to get people creating and watching more Stories.
Snapchat launches TrueDepth camera powered AR lenses demoed during iPhone X unveiling
Apple permits developers to obtain visual face maps and track more than 50 facial muscle in real time via the TrueDepth camera, and now Snapchat has finally rolled out cool new iPhone X-powered lenses in its mobile app that it promised months ago last September.