Snapchat Secretly Acquires Seene, A Startup That Lets Mobile Users Make 3D Selfies (techcrunch.com) 20
An anonymous reader writes: TechCrunch has learned of a secret acquisition by Snapchat of a computer vision startup company called Seene. TechCrunch reports: "Seene lets you capture 3D models from your phone with a simple smartphone camera. Snapchat could use Seene's format for a brand new category of selfie lenses, a new 3D photo format, and potentially for future virtual reality projects. Seene scans and reconstructs full 3D geometry on your phone. Unlike Project Tango or Microsoft's Kinect, Seene doesn't need special infrared sensors and multiple cameras. Similarly, Seene doesn't need a cloud backend to process 3D scans and recreate 3D objects -- everything happens on the phone. For instance, you can scan your face in a few seconds and create a 3D selfie. It would make a lot of sense to use Seene's technology to improve Snapchat's selfie lenses -- including for advertising purposes. (Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses in fall last year, and charges a pretty penny to advertisers wanting to get their brand on people's faces.) Also last year, Snapchat acquired Looksery to power its selfie lenses. Combining Looksery's technology with Seene's technology would allow Snapchat to create more complex lenses with a real sense of depth. Think ads that people want to touch." While on the subject of lenses, U.S. inventors claim their flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionize optics.
You just know (Score:5, Funny)
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Combining Looksery's technology with Seene's technology would allow Snapchat to create more complex lenses with a real sense of depth. Think ads that people want to touch.
Well that definitely a new way to sell penis pills.
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That was the first thought that popped into my mind: Great, now the girl you send a dick pic to can not look at it from any angle.
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Selfie = Lonely
Let's! (Score:2)
Snapchat Secretly Acquires Seene, A Startup That Let's Mobile Users Make 3D Selfies
Let's make unnecessary apostrophe jokes!
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I think this is even more sad:
Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses in fall last year, and charges a pretty penny to advertisers wanting to get their brand on people's faces.
It's for shit like this that we need a Dot Bomb 2.0. Flush these turds down the drain.
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I think this is even more sad:
Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses in fall last year, and charges a pretty penny to advertisers wanting to get their brand on people's faces.
It's for shit like this that we need a Dot Bomb 2.0. Flush these turds down the drain.
Let it go. This will take care of itself. That idiotic sponsored lenses thing will be around until the first time it's used to photograph gruesome stuff, or sponsored kiddie porn.
I cannot for the life of me understand why "What could make this a really bad idea?" never occurs to these people.
Although it might be funny for a Chick-fil-A sponsored selfie of some gay folks kissing.
Science Marches On (Score:4, Funny)
Yippee, now we can all be attention whores in 3-D!
Lens (Score:4, Informative)
a brand new category of selfie lenses...
Snapchat's selfie lenses...
Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses
its selfie lenses.
Just because they call it a "lens" doesn't you mean you should call it a lens, when it has absolutely nothing to do with lenses.
While on the subject of lenses
You weren't on the subject of lenses. You were on the subject of stupid shitty software filters.
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And lets not forget... if it doesn't require specialized hardware, there is no reason at all to even be talking about the phone/camera, or selfies. It is just a digital photo filter. This is like paid-ringtones; it will make a lot of money until people who buy it realize it didn't improve their lives, and then it will fade into the background and the functionality will just be another stupid thing you can make your computer do if you're bored.