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Snapchat聚焦AR

Snapchat’s AUGMENTED REALITY

Taking pictures of real things,with virtual additions

Snapchat是最熱門的社群媒體網站之一，擁有無數活躍用戶，其中大多數為年

輕人。

而該平台的其中一項最受歡迎的功能，就是AR濾鏡。

AR代表擴增實境，意指能向人們展示呈現真實生活與數位影像的結合。

舉例來說，某一種濾鏡也許會顯示你和身後的真實背景，只不過是把你的臉用狗狗的臉取代掉。

研究顯示，百分之七十一的Snapchat用戶每天都會使用擴增實境功能。

Snapchat提供兩種AR擴增實境濾鏡：臉部濾鏡與世界濾鏡。

臉部濾鏡會修改臉部影像，就像前面提到那個換成狗臉的例子。

世界濾鏡則會改變你周圍物品的影像。

舉例來說，這種濾鏡可以在照片中加上一件物品。

Snapchat擁有超過兩百五十萬個濾鏡，其中很多都是用戶自己設計的；Snapchat具有一項功能，能讓用戶嘗試別人構思的濾鏡，然後再挑選幾個供自己使用。

其中幾個最夯的濾鏡包括一個能把使用者變成立體卡通人物的模樣。

另外一個能讓人覺得照片中的主角面帶微笑，儘管實際上他們並沒有在笑；還有一個則是能在照片主角的眼鏡上加上火焰

With a myriad of active users, mostly young people, Snapchat is one of the most popular social media sites. One of this platform's features that is most in demand is its AR lenses. AR stands for augmented reality, meaning that it shows people a combination of real life and digital images. For example, a lens might show an image of you with your real background but replace your face with a dog's face. Studies show that 71 percent of Snapchat users make use of AR every day.

Snapchat offers two kinds of AR lenses: face lenses and world lenses. Face lenses

modify images of faces, as in the previously mentioned example of the dog's face. World lenses change pictures of items around you. For example, they might add an item into a picture.

Snapchat offers over 2.5 million lenses, many designed by users. It has a feature that lets you try out lenses conceived by others and select some for personal use.

Some favorite lenses include one that makes users look like a 3D cartoon. 

Another makes it appear that the subject of the photo is smiling (even if they weren't), and a third superimposes flames on the subject's glasses.

myriad （adj.）無數；極大數量

Myriad numbers of mosquitoes come out after it rains in the spring.

When Lane and Brad were in New York City, they saw a myriad of coffee sho9ps wherever they went.

Life is full of myriad possibilities, so never give up.

make use up （ph v.）運用；利用

Phoebe told Sara that she would make good use of the birthday gift she had given her. 善用

I always give items I no longer use to a store where other people can buy and make use of them. 好好利用

Dr. Brown is so popular that when he gives a speech, we make use of every chari in the auditorium.  用到禮堂裡的每一張椅子

augmented reality vs.virtual reality

So you're saying with augmented reality, it changes your surroundings. (Yeah.)

But virtual reality makes it feel like you're inside of something different.

augmented chord  增和弦

active user 活躍用戶

lenses

a combination of ＋（n.）＋and＋（n.）

buck the trend 逆勢；逆潮流

That company is bucking the trend in this economy.

modify （v.）稍作修改；調整

Ater George lost his leg in an accident, he had to modify his house so he could get around. 改造房子 移動自如

You can modify the soup recipe to suit your taste. 調整食譜

My mother was good at modifying old clothes so they looked stylish. 修改舊衣服 看起來時髦些

conceive （v.）想出；構想

Bethany used every argument she could conceive of to persuade her parents to allow her to go to Europe for a month.

conceive （v.）受孕；懷孕

Madison was finding it very difficult to conceive, soshe went to a specialist. 受孕專家

conceive （v.）理解

When people from the south visit the north in January, they can finally conceive what cold temperatures feel like.

aforementioned 前述

to superimpose

So you can take a photo or a video and like add some other things to it to... make it look like something else is part of the photo, that is, superimposing things onto it.

designer

collar

cheap thrills

I mean, it's cheap, basically free, for everybody who uses Snapchat, right?

use responsibly

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