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Over the past week, practically every major tech company working on augmented reality has held their quarterly earnings calls with investors, and each addressed or at least mentioned the role of AR during their prepared remarks. However, Facebook's earnings call had some of the spicier commentary on the technology.Speaking of Facebook, the company's Spark AR platform assisted The New York Times in delivering AR content on the ongoing Olympic Games. Google also delivered its own Olympic AR experiences through its own AR platform.Finally, Snapchat continues to lean on AR as its growth driver, and its latest Lens is literally a jaw-dropper. Facebook Shines Spotlight on Smartglasses & the MetaverseFacebook's earnings calls are generally focused on numbers—revenue and user growth.But this week the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, carved out a significant portion of the call to elaborate on Facebook's plans for immersive computing.Read further to see what Zuck had to say about Facebook's forthcoming foray into smartglasses and the company's forward focus on the Metaverse... Image by Oculus/YouTube REALITY BITES: 3D scanning company Matterport went public last week, commemorating the occasion by ringing the closing bell for Nasdaq and sharing a 3D model of the Nasdaq Marketsite. The closing…

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COVID-19 Impact on Global Social Networking Services Market Professional Survey Research Report 2021-2027 Latest research on Global Social Networking Services Market report covers forecast and analysis on a worldwide, regional and country level. The study provides historical information of 2016-2021 together with a forecast from 2021 to 2027 supported by both volume and revenue (USD million). The entire study covers the key drivers and restraints for the Social Networking Services market. this report included a special section on the Impact of COVID19. Also, Social Networking Services Market (By major Key Players, By Types, By Applications, and Leading Regions) Segments outlook, Business assessment, Competition scenario and Trends Some of the key players Analysis in Social Networking Services Market – Snapchat, Instagram, Baidu Tieba, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Taringa, Twitter, LINE, Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Tencent QQ, Skype, Pinterest, VKontakte（VK）, Viber, Sina Weibo, and WeChat Get Sample Copy Of This https://www.reportsandmarkets.com/sample-request/global-social-networking-services-market-4179658?utm_source=domestic-violence&utm_medium=36 One of the crucial parts of this report comprises Social Networking Services industry key vendor’s discussion about the brand’s summary, profiles, market revenue, and financial analysis. The report will help market players build future business strategies and discover worldwide competition. A detailed segmentation analysis of the market is done on producers, regions,…

SAN ANTONIO, TX — A teenager in San Antonio was seen in a Snapchat video stealing the necklace from the body of a man they found under a drainage ditch.According to KSAT, an arrest warrant affidavit states 17-year-old Bethany Martin and a female friend discovered the man's body near an intersection in Southwest Bexar County Monday morning.Investigators said the girls called a friend who arrived and called authorities.The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the man's death a suicide. He was 25-years-old.Deputies received the footage anonymously on Tuesday.One video showed Martin and her friend near the man's body and another shows Martin removing a chain and a medallion from his neck, according to an arrest affidavit.Bexar County Sheriff's Office investigators recognized the girls in the video as witnesses at the scene.In an interview with investigators, Martin said her friend liked the necklace and medallion around the man's neck.According to the affidavit, Martin said she removed the jewelry from the man's body and proceeded to remove the medallion from the chain.Martin then gave the medallion to her friend and tossed the necklace into the grass.The friend is not listed in Bexar County Jail records and told deputies that she recorded the…

The whole “make your face look like a Pixar/Dreamworks animated character” has been quite popular lately. Who hasn’t had at least one sibling or college friend send them images of themselves looking like they stepped out of Inside Out? We’ve seen it on TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Well, now you can take that idea and actually animate it on your desktop, and not just on your mobile device. You can mildly freak out all of your colleagues by animating yourself in a Zoom call with the Snap Camera app.Via Polygon, we’ve learned how you can now do this using Snapchat’s desktop app. The filter turns users into a standard animated version of themselves, with varying degrees of accuracy. One thing we’ll say, the movements for this one are pretty fluid. Obviously, the technology is somewhat limited still, so don’t expect it to capture your full range of expression. But it more than gets the job done. You can watch an example in the video above, from YouTuber VideoZeus.All you have to do is download and install the Snap Camera app. Once you’ve done that, start the app, then start Zoom, and then make Snap Camera your camera input. If you…

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The Lens Studio community, now made up of more than 200,000 creators, has generated some impressive augmented reality effects in the last few years. Amazingly, the groundbreaking Lenses for Snapchat continue to come, often from the internal AR team at Snap.Take, for instance, Cartoon 3D Style, which generated approximately 2.8 billion engagements on Snapchat within its first week.Don't Miss: Snap Adds Upper Garment Segmentation, Multiple Object Detection, & More with Lens Studio 4.1 The latest AR magic trick to arrive on Snapchat (iOS or Android) from Snap's AR team is the appropriately-named Magic Karaoke. Or maybe you've seen it referred to as the "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" filter.Like Cartoon 3D Style, the Magic Karaoke Lens works with the real-time camera feed from either the selfie or rear-facing cameras or images from your camera roll. Unfiltered video. Images by Tommy Palladino/Next Reality Instead of morphing human faces into Pixar cartoon characters, Magic Karaoke turns Snapchat into a puppeteer, with any face it identifies becoming virtual singing puppets. In fact, karaoke is an inaccurate term, as what's really going on here is lip-synching for the deep fake era.Based on the song selected, Magic Karaoke orchestrates the facial movements in time with the lyrics of the…

A model and social media influencer is awaiting sentence after her bank account was used for the transfer of crime proceeds from an invoice payment scam. Karine Lawani (22), a psychology student, with an address at Foxborough Road, Lucan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to money-laundering after “naively” offering help to a man on Snapchat who needed an account. Det Garda John Saunderson told Dublin District Court that €5,430 was transferred into Lawani’s Permanent TSB bank account on February 11th last year. A Waterford-based firm had earlier received an email purporting to be from a supplier seeking payment of an invoice. The firm transferred the money as instructed and on the same date there were two withdrawals from Lawani’s account. Gardaí obtained CCTV evidence showing an “unknown male withdrawing €1,500 from the account” at an ATM in the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. Lawani took out €3,200 from a bank machine on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. Two days later €700 was withdrawn. Snapchat messageDet Garda Saunderson said Lawani was arrested and interviewed in January. She claimed she saw a Snapchat message from a man looking for a Permanent TSB account so he could receive a payment from someone else with an account with…

Forget what you thought about Snapchat, the app is growing faster than it has in years, now counting over 293 million daily active users.Just a couple of years ago, it looked like it could have been the end.Related | Instagram Now Automatically Translates Texts In Stories In 90 LanguagesIn 2018, Snapchat was not doing well. Following a disastrous redesign, its stock price bottomed out under $5 as users and advertisers were questioning the very survival of the app.But nowadays, things are looking drastically different for Snapchat. Its user base is growing faster than it has ever done since it went public back in 2017. Snap said the app added over 13 million daily users during the second quarter, a 23% increase year on year. Snapchat now counts over 293 million daily active users, which means 120 million more than it did this time four years ago (173M.) As a comparison, Twitter reported 206 million active daily users for the same time period.But it’s not just user growth for Snapchat. The company also reported a 116% increase in revenue, bringing its total to $982 million, making Snapchat one of the fastest-growing social media companies.Snapchat continues to build its growth around a passion…

Social media firms Twitter and Snap are continuing to add users even as pandemic restrictions ease.Snapchat's number of daily users topped 293 million in the three months to the end of June, beating analysts' expectations.And Twitter reported it passed the 200 million mark for daily active users who view adverts on its platform in the same period, up 11% year-on-year.Both California-based companies also saw revenues increase.Snap owns the mobile app Snapchat, best known for its video and photo "stories" that disappear after 24 hours. The firm reported revenues more than doubling to $982m (£713m)."Our second-quarter results reflect the broad-based strength of our business, as we grew both revenue and daily active users at the highest rates we have achieved in the past four years," Snap boss Evan Spiegel said.The company was, however, still $152m in the red, down from $326m in net losses for the same period in 2020.Meanwhile, micro-blogging site Twitter said sales rose 74% year-on-year to $1.19bn, generating a profit of $65.7m for the company.This is the first time Twitter's advertising revenues have passed the $1bn mark. The firm said it had invested in making advertising campaigns easier to buy into for small and medium-sized businesses."As we enter…