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 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.”