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Ask HN: How complicated is Snapchat's AR system?

1 pointsby chdanielover 5 years ago
Hi HN,<p>Non-technical founder here. I&#x27;m curious to get some opinions&#x2F;information from someone with more experience in AR than I have (which is, likely, a lot of people)<p>How complicated is Snapchat&#x27;s filters AR? As far as I can tell, the hard thing might be detecting the face — the puppy face&#x2F;makeup thing would simply be 3D models that are applied.<p>And I understand that&#x27;s a vage question. The context is: I&#x27;m thinking whether anything like that is possible around sneakers. Imagine someone points the camera at their feet and they can see a 3D modelled sneaker applied over what they wear. Just like in the Snapchat scenario, I suppose the big deal is recognizing feet&#x2F;other sneakers.<p>Is this something a small team of devs might be able to do? Or is it something that requires advanced R&amp;D? I&#x27;m also aware the AR kit was released by Apple in 2017, but I don&#x27;t have any idea what that means<p>Thank you

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