Snapchat’s AR filter can now paint your nails

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Three Snapchat filter images with hands in the frame. Each has a different color digital manicure applied.
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Snapchat’s newest AR filter will paint your nails for you — or at least give you an idea of what they might look like.

The new AR lens applies color and other 2D designs to a Snapchat user’s fingernails, allowing them to virtually “try on” colors or designs before purchasing a bottle of nail polish. The new AR nail segmentation technology is launching in a partnership with OPI, a drugstore and nail salon mainstay. Snap is adding an AR filter featuring a handful of OPI colors as part of the partnership.

The filter itself is fun to play around with and at the very least approximates what a new shade might look like on your nails. In my experience, some colors looked more realistic than others — a frosted light blue looked chunky, like I...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23735063/snapchats-ar-filter-beatuy-lens-nail-segmentation

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