{"id":407138,"date":"2017-09-26T07:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/25\/snapchat-gains-new-sky-filters\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:42:43","slug":"snapchat-gains-augmented-reality-sky-filters-for-adding-virtual-weather-effects-to-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/snapchat-gains-augmented-reality-sky-filters-for-adding-virtual-weather-effects-to-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat Gains Augmented Reality ‘Sky Filters’ for Adding Virtual Weather Effects to Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snapchat is gaining a new feature called “Sky Filters,” which are able to detect the sky in an image and then layer different effects on top, much like Snapchat’s existing face-based filters.<\/p>\n

Snapchat told TechCrunch<\/a><\/em> that the new filters are rolling out starting today on iOS an Android. Available filters will rotate on a daily basis and will include virtual weather, sunsets, stars, rainbows, storm clouds, and more.<\/p>\n

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The new filters will be accessible with a swipe upwards on a photo like other filters so long as Snapchat recognizes the presence of a sky in the image.<\/p>\n

In the future, Snapchat’s filters will be able to take advantage of advanced face tracking capabilities using the TrueDepth Camera in the iPhone X. While this won’t affect Snapchat’s environment-based filters, it will make the company’s face-related features far more realistic-looking.<\/p>\n

Snapchat can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snapchat is gaining a new feature called “Sky Filters,” which are able to detect the sky in an image and then layer different effects on top, much like Snapchat’s existing face-based filters. Snapchat told TechCrunch that the new filters are rolling out starting today on iOS an Android. Available filters will rotate on a daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":407139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-407138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}