Popul-AR

08/08/2023

Brussels AR days

Late September is gonna be lit for AR enthusiasts around the capital of Europe ✨🇪🇺

Stay tuned for practical informations

29/03/2023

A month ago, we've been invited to assist citizens and politics present at the first session of the European Citizens' Panel on Virtual Worlds, organized by the

Long story short this initiative is split into three dates and marks a very interesting way of doing things since the event gathers citizens from all over Europe and the politicians of the European Commission to illustrate how AR/VR technologies can positively impact our society and become fundamental technological tool to rely on.

It’s a particularly interesting event since these topics and the questions they raise are discussed with citizens and not for them.

Which shouldn't stop there generally speaking, as a collaborative approach is essential to build things that makes sense for everybody.

You can see some of the meaningful applications that were presented there in between talks, like this great tool built to see how your field of view evolves with speed when you’re driving how much danger it represents -in VR- or another one where you can train your CPR skills- also in VR.

We also had the chance of being proposed to showcase AiR -a free Web AR tool allowing anybody to see its local air quality in real time- as we built this tool to make the threat of air hazard more understandable. It’s been heartwarming to see how enthusiastic European citizens present on site were while using it 🥹

The second session of the European citizen panel was a digital one that happened last weekend. And the third session will happen again in Brussels between 28-30th April and will focus on consolidating citizen recommendation to the European Commission.

The future of XR in Europe sound bright doesn’t it?! 🙃

20/02/2023

If you develop effects in Lens Studio, perhaps you’ve experienced the difficulties of orchestrating animations in rich narrative experiences.

The de facto tween library is great for simple arrangements, but the component-centric workflow becomes cumbersome in complex scenarios.

We need a new animation system, a better animation system; one that works! But instead of reinventing the wheel, we decided to port the amazing anime.js library into Lens Studio.

Try it out on your next project and let us know what you think!

https://github.com/Popul-AR/snap-anime-js

13/01/2023

Dalle inpainting & outpainting are rising as a useful tool for AR creators by expanding possibility to generate, expand, or fill up missing textures. Here’s a series of examples where managed to get decent legs, and then decent shoes on another pass.🧙🏻‍♂️

24/12/2022

To finish this year properly, we decided to finish what was probably our coolest personal meta spark project of the year: A Spatial Audio installation proposing various musical atmosphere

Opening the effect will prompt you to place the installation as a world object and each of the floating Christmas baubles will play a famous Christmas song just for you.

Check this effect out on Instagram and please tag us if you're sharing it, we'd just love to see how it looks in your Xmas setup! .xr

04/10/2022

We're happy to announce that our latest template collection for Snap AR is now available directly in Lens Studio’s asset library to help you craft your next lens!
Next time you’ll create a Snap AR filter, all you need to do is to open Lens Studio, navigate to the Asset Library and pick your weapon(s) :
👆🌅 LUT Cycler
🌫🏃‍♀️ Motion Blur
🔍 Loupe
🍭 Swirl
🐟👁 Fisheye
🔮 360 Video Player

09/08/2022

Face Stabilization technique for Effect House is the first ever tuto on our newly created Youtube channel after years of using Vimeo!

This Effect House tutorial teaches you how to make a face stabilization effect for TikTok, similar to the technique used in Bella Poarch's famous head nod vi...

04/08/2022

This Effect House tutorial teaches you how to make a face stabilization effect, similar to the technique used in Bella Poarch’s famous head nod video or in many dancer’s video such as this Happy Kelli.

https://www.tiktok.com//video/6862153058223197445

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNbAd6M6/?k=1

We use the head tracker’s 3d position to apply offsets and scaling so the user’s face is always centered in the screen. You'll learn about the "world to screen," "remap," and "lerp" nodes.

The tutorial is free, but we are asking a small fee for the project files. All Sugar proceeds are going to the the UNHCR https://www.unhcr.org/

https://sugar.popul-ar.com/product/eh-face-stabilizer

If you have questions or comments about the tutorial or you just want to show off your work, join us in the lab!

https://lab.popul-ar.com/

This Effect House tutorial teaches you how to make a face stabilization effect for TikTok, similar to the technique used in Bella Poarch's famous head nod video!…

18/07/2022

The secret to physics in your projects?

The delay value patch!

Full read:

Physics in Spark have been a pipe dream ever since v1! A few people have managed to make it work, but there are “reactive” bottlenecks and…

28/06/2022

Your 3D MoMa's so cool she can turn pictures into editable 3D models

After converting 2D images into 3D scenes, models, and videos, Nvidia has turned its focus to editing the generated geometries. Nvidia unveiled recently a new AI method that transforms still photos into 3D objects that creators can modify with ease. David Luebke, Nvidia’s VP of graphics research, ...

20/06/2022

What's the best-suited name for this one?

1. ML portal
2. AR Culture

Try it here: https://lens.snapchat.com/7ad73cf46f624af2a390cf0ed16d6778?sender_web_id=ab52fdff-6de4-4384-9be2-cc27fcee52ac&device_type=desktop&is_copy_url=true