Snap Inc.

Gabriel Lupin

Kaveh Anvaripour

Travis Chen

Oleksii Kholovchuk

Artem Yerofieiev

Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis

Yurii Monastyrshyn

Jialu Zhao

Denys Makoviichuk

Bohdan Pozharskyi

Artem Gaiduchenko

Ebony James Charlton

John Jensen

Trevor Stephenson

Amar Boghani

Erika Michele Kehrwald

Yan Wu

Vasileios Verroios

Jeremy Baker Voss

Kirk Ouimet

Kevin Dechau Tang

Ranidu Lankage

Christine Barron

Haibo Zhao

Swetha Krishna Prabhakar

Pedram Javidpour

Ievgen Poloz

Hammad Bashir

Roman Shtemberko

Max Rogov

Methods and systems are disclosed for performing generating AR experiences on a messaging platform. The methods and systems perform operations including: receiving, from a client device, a request to access an AR experience; in response to receiving the request, loading a first AR element of the AR experience without loading a second AR element of the AR experience; determining that a condition associated with the second AR element is satisfied; and in response to determining that the condition associated with the second AR element is satisfied: retrieving, by the client device, the second AR element from a server; and loading the second AR element for presentation on the client device.

Augmented reality experiences with dynamically loadable assets

The subject technology selects a set of augmented reality content generators from a plurality of available augmented reality content generators, the selected set of augmented reality content generators comprising at least one augmented reality content generator for providing augmented reality content based on a product. The subject technology causes display of a carousel interface comprising selectable graphical items, each selectable graphical item corresponding to a respective augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a first selectable graphical item from the plurality of selectable graphical items. The subject technology applies, to first image data, the first augmented reality content generator corresponding to the selected first selectable graphical item. The subject technology causes a display of second image data, the second image data include including the applied first augmented reality content generator to the first image data.

Augmented reality experiences for physical products in a messaging system

A dynamic media menu that comprises a media carousel to present collections of media content, and an 'Augmented-Reality (AR) bar' to receive inputs to identify a media category.

Dynamic media selection menu

Method for generating a live streaming video having real-time special effects starts with a processor displaying on a display device a lens selection user interface including a plurality of lens selections. The lens selections are associated with a plurality of special effects, respectively, and include a first lens selection associated with a first special effect and a second lens selection associated with a second special effect. The processor then receiving a selection of the first lens selection and applies in real-time the first special effect to a video stream captured by a camera to generate a video stream having the first special effect. The processor then transmits in real-time the video stream having the first special effect via a network to be displayed on a plurality of client devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Generating a live streaming video having real-time special effects

Method for triggering changes to real-time special effects included in a live streaming video starts with a processor transmitting in real-time a video stream captured by a camera via a network. The processor causes a live streaming interface that includes the video stream to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. The processor receives a trigger to apply one of a plurality of special effects to the video stream and determines a first special effect of the plurality of special effects is associated with the trigger. The processor applies in real-time the first special effect to the video stream to generate a video stream having the first special effect and transmits in real-time the video stream having the first special effect via the network. The processor causes the live streaming interface that includes the video stream having the first special effect to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Triggering changes to real-time special effects included in a live streaming video

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a client device implementing a messaging application, a request to access a display of a plurality of augmented reality experiences; retrieving a plurality of identifiers of each of the plurality of augmented reality experiences; determining that a given augmented reality experience of the plurality of augmented reality experiences is associated with an access restriction; modifying a given identifier of the plurality of identifiers associated with the given augmented reality experience in response to determining that the given augmented reality experience is associated with the access restriction; and generating, for display on the client device, a graphical user interface that includes the plurality of identifiers comprising the modified given identifier.

Electronic transaction activated augmented reality experiences

Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, via a messaging application, input that selects a collection of augmented reality items; obtaining an identifier of the collection of the augmented reality items; searching, based on the identifier, a plurality of augmented reality items to identify a subset of augmented reality items associated with the identifier; causing the messaging application to present the subset of augmented reality items; and causing the messaging application to modify an image based on a first augmented reality item in the subset.

Augmented reality item collections

The disclosed systems and methods include operations for: storing, by one or more processors, a plurality of content items in association with a content item generation template, each of the plurality of content items having been previously generated by a respective user of a plurality of users of a messaging application in accordance with instructions associated with the content item generation template; ranking the plurality of content items associated with the content item generation template; receiving input that selects an identifier of the content item generation template; and displaying the ranked plurality of content items to a given user of the messaging application in response to receiving the input.

UI and devices for ranking user generated content

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting available augmented reality (AR) content items. The program and method provide for displaying a capture interface in accordance with a camera mode configured to capture multiple video clips; displaying a carousel interface for presenting a first set of AR content items, each being selectable to apply respective AR content to captured video; receiving first user input selecting an explore tab included which is selectable to switch to an explorer interface for presenting a second set of AR content items; switching from the capture interface to the explorer interface; receiving, via the explorer interface, second user input selecting an AR content item from among the second set; and updating, in response to receiving the second user input, the first set of AR content items to include the selected AR content item.

Presenting available augmented reality content items in association with multi-video clip capture

Systems and methods are provided for generating content. The systems and methods include operations for: identifying a content item generation template that is associated with instructions for generating a content item; displaying, by a messaging application, an identifier of the content item generation template; receiving, by the messaging application, input that selects the identifier of the content item generation template; retrieving, by the messaging application, a plurality of content items associated with the content item generation template, each of the plurality of content items having been previously generated by a respective user of a plurality of users of the messaging application in accordance with the instructions associated with the content item generation template; and displaying, by the messaging application, the retrieved plurality of content items associated with the content item generation template.

UI and devices for incenting user contribution to social network content

The systems and methods include operations for: storing, by one or more processors, a plurality of content items in association with a content item generation template, each of the plurality of content items having been previously generated by a respective user of a plurality of users of a messaging application in accordance with instructions associated with the content item generation template; ranking the plurality of content items associated with the content item generation template; receiving input that selects an identifier of the content item generation template; and displaying the ranked plurality of content items to a given user of the messaging application in response to receiving the input.

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Marina Del Rey, CA, United States of America

Gabriel Lupin