After the waves of “face-changing” waves brought by FaceApp and Zao, Snapchat is ready to act.
This time Snapchat Upcoming new features , Called “Cameos.”
Go straight to the topic, how does Cameos play?
It is reported that this function will be integrated into the Bitmoji emoji keyboard, users can click the button, select gender, then select a video in Snapchat’s video library, and upload their own selfie.
After that, Snapchat will adjust your face through AI so that you can have different emotions and expressions. Then, you can change your face to the person in the video and become a “moving you” .
For example, you can eat and drink before a mountain of snacks:
You can turn into a “Wall Wolf” with huge money:
You can travel in space and have a “thinking explosion”:
After you create it, you can send these GIFs to Snapchat chats.
However, according to the face-changing videos that are currently revealed, the face and body inside are still obviously split, such as the inappropriate proportion of head and body, and the expressions look unnatural.
Also, this gameplay is really similar to Zao.
But Cameos is only available in beta now. The earliest received beta are a group of Snapchat users in France.
Today, TechCrunch and Snapchat confirmed the existence of Cameos a>.
Snapchat says that it is currently testing a limited portion of the app in some countries and states that Cameos will be released globally in the future, But the exact time is unknown.
Under the competition of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms, Snapchat has been constantly developing fresh and creative ways to promote user activity.
Every new attempt, from the early funny filters to this year’s gender swapping, transforming baby face and old man face, has brought Snapchat a considerable user growth.
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This new feature is also expected to once again attract a wave of young people to use Snapchat.
After all, from the experience of the predecessor “Changing Face” app, FaceApp had more than 1 million downloads two weeks after its release, and Zao topped the App Store overnight.
It’s just that the risk of face-changing apps is still very high. Celebrities face-changing porn stars, faking authoritative figures to speak, reading user privacy data, etc. All these make the “face-changing” technology, laws and regulations, and public criticism criticize, otherwise Not one can be downloaded now.
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But at present, Cameos seems to be limited to the use of functions similar to chat emoticons, not only the video material library is limited, but also simple editing, so its use scene is limited to entertainment chat.
This is at least a simple and desirable way to use face-changing technology in daily life.