Snapchat's Latest Augmented Reality Lens Turns Celebrities into Lip-Syncing Pop Stars

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…
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