美圖搞大事情了,開始和Facebook合作搞AR
Facebook has selected Meitu for its AR abilities to help it catch up in animated photography. By joining Facebook’s AR Studio as an early beta partner, Meitu will bring three AR camera effects to the Facebook camera soon, it was announced by Facebook’s director of platform partnerships, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis at RISE in Hong Kong.
Facebook選擇與美圖合作，通過美圖的AR技術發展其動畫攝影功能。美圖已成爲Facebook AR工作室第二大合作方，很快就將在Facebook攝像頭上加入三種AR特效。Facebook的合作平臺總監（Konstantinos Papamiltiadis）於香港RISE科技峯會宣佈了這一消息。Facebook announced its AR Studio in April at F8 and Meitu is the first company specializing in AR facial recognition to be selected and the first company based in Asia. Xiamen-based Meitu already has its apps installed on 1.1 billion unique devices and 450m monthly active users and its tech could reach many more very soon. The China’s company also makes smartphones optimized for selfies and at TechCrunch Shenzhen announced plans to harness its users’ frequent selfie-snapping for health monitoring, picking out minute changes in users’ appearance.
四月，在Facebook年度盛會F8上，Facebook宣佈成立AR工作室，美圖是AR人臉識別領域首家被選中合作的亞洲公司。美圖總部位於廈門，app單機安裝量達11億，月活躍用戶達4.5億，吸引受衆潛力巨大。美圖還出品以自拍爲主的智能手機，並在國際創新峯會上宣佈將通過用戶的自拍頻率開發健康監管功能，從用戶外貌上識別細微變化。
Facebook users will be able to use three features which utilize front or rear facing cameras—or both. As with many such filters and augmentations, you have to see the effect to understand it, but the descriptions from Meitu’s release capture the sense of the world we’re heading into.“Selfie from the Future” will, according to the release, add a “robotic eyeglass effect that transposes your face onto a heads-up display below. The rear camera effect features a touch-activated Meitu robot.”
Facebook用戶未來能夠通過美圖的三種特效使用前置攝像頭和後置攝像頭。要想了解各種濾鏡和圖片裝飾物所帶來的拍攝效果，還得親身體驗。美圖的發佈會傳達的則是一種未來感。“未來的自拍”將會加入“機械眼鏡特效，這種特效將爲拍攝者帶上頭部面具（heads-up display）。後置攝像頭將具備觸摸啓動功能，這也是美圖機器人的特色之一。”
