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Highest number of lenses published on Snapchat come from India: Snap CTO


Augmented reality-based social media platform Snapchat has recorded 50% development in AR developer group in India and registered the best variety of its AR lenses revealed within the nation, a senior official of Snap stated on Wednesday.

Snap claims to have claims to has greater than 375,000 creators worldwide in augmented actuality (AR) ecosystem which have constructed over 4 million AR lenses.

“Indian builders are on the forefront of innovation, bringing partaking and artistic experiences to life. In actual fact, amongst all international locations, the best variety of lenses revealed on Snapchat come from India. And the developer group right here has grown by greater than half, over the past two years. India is a rare nation the place AR has change into part of every day life,” Snap CTO Bobby Murphy stated in an announcement.

Snapchat customers impose results of lenses accessible on the app to create totally different sorts of faces and content material.

Snap India Managing Director Pulkit Trivedi stated India is residence to a thriving group of creators and builders who’re shaping the way forward for AR.


“With over 200 million Snapchatters in India utilizing the platform to visually specific themselves, join, and revel in content material, AR has change into central to communication and creativity. Seeing Snapchatters interact with AR lenses over 80 billion instances a month is a testomony to the facility of inventive expression,” he stated.

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The corporate stated in India over 85% of Snapchatters use lenses for connecting with family and friends, particularly round key cultural moments and festivals.

Snap additionally showcased its fifth-generation see-through AR glasses, spectacles, for the primary time in India at its second annual India AR Day occasion held in Mumbai.


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