Snapchat Launches New AR Art Experiences to Encourage Cultural Engagement
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Snap’s deaf and hard-of-hearing internal employee group has partnered with SignAll, a group of developers and designers, to create immersive, AR fingerspelling filters meant to “scale empathy” and better connect deaf and hearing users. And in honor of two motion pictures with predominantly deaf casts that are for major awards, the social platform is bringing its efforts to the Oscars.
Snap will bring the neuroscience expertise of French start-up NextMind to its AR research and development team.
Snap announced it’s acquired neurotech startup NextMind, a Paris-based company known for creating a $400 pint-sized brain-computer interface (BCI). In a blog post, Snap says NextMind will help drive “long-term augmented reality research efforts within Snap Lab,” the company’s hardware team that’s currently building AR devices. “Snap Lab’s programs explore possibilities for the future of the […]