SNAP expands the capabilities of glasses with GPS and hands tracking features

It has passed only about six months since Snap He released the fifth generation of glassesIts AR glasses for developers, and the company is already strengthening its latest husband with new lenses and platform features.

Snap was announced on Monday It launches the ability to create lenses that focus on glasses that click on the GPS system (GPS), new hands tracking capabilities, and more. Now, developers can build lenses using the GPS system (GPS), GNSS (the global satellite system for navigation), compass address, and custom sites, allowing them to access geographical location data and create things like AR walking cycles.

The update aims primarily to improve the site’s existing experiences on glasses.

Snap has offered some examples that use new capabilities, such as the UTOPIA LABS, which directs users with sudden map tiles by displaying incandescent stocks to help their wearers reach their destinations.

Other new platform features of the glasses include the capabilities of the above -mentioned hands, which discover the seizure gestures and when the user has a phone in their hands. Snap also also allows developers to easily add the lead board to their lenses for competition concentration experiences.

In addition, there is a new AR keyboard.

The glasses can only be reached through the Developer Snap program, which costs $ 99 a month.

However, Snap recently presented a 50 % discount For teachers and students, it indicates that its long -term goal is to bring AR experiences to the masses with its help also in competing with technology giants such as Apple, Google and Meta.

Besides today’s announcement, Snap revealed a series of challenges that will give $ 20,000 to developers who have glasses who create the 10 best lenses each month. The “glasses community challenges”, the series begins on April 1.