App: Lens Studio
Developer: Snap, Inc.
Genres: Graphics & Design, Developer Tools

REACH MILLIONS ON SNAPCHAT, YOUR OWN APP, AND BEYOND
More than 250M people use AR Lenses on Snapchat an average of 6 billion times per day to play, shop, learn, and express themselves. Lens Studio is a free development and design tool that enables you to create custom AR experiences for Snapchat and the global Snapchat community. The Lenses you build in Lens Studio can also be shared to your own application or website via Camera Kit. 

Download Lens Studio to build your first AR Lens and join our community of more than 300,000 creators, developers, and teams from around the world who are creating on the Snap AR platform. 

WHAT IS LENS STUDIO?
Lens Studio is a free development software packed with powerful capabilities for creators to build AR experiences. Lens Studio is designed to empower developers, creators, and artists to design the highest quality AR experiences possible while growing their expertise and establishing a career. Developers can create a single asset in Lens Studio and share that Lens (AR on Snapchat) across a variety of channels, including Snapchat, Spectacles, and other apps via Camera Kit.

With Lens Studio, the creative possibilities are endless. Whether you’re using 2D art to transform faces or bringing 3D models to life in the AR world, Lens Studio offers world-class, professional-grade, easy-to-use tools as well as built-in learnings to help you get started. 

GET STARTED QUICKLY
With access to hundreds of templates and online tutorials, Lens Studio makes it easy to bring your ideas to life, regardless of experience level.

BUILD THE FUTURE NOW
Because Lens Studio offers such an advanced and robust set of features, AR experiences are more creative, more believable, and more engaging than if they were created with any other tool. Build more realistic shaders and graphics using Lens Studio’s Material Editor or develop innovative Lenses with SnapML and the many built-in machine-learning features. Test your Lenses interactively on your computer or push to your mobile device instantly with the Preview Tool.

REACH AN ENGAGED AUDIENCE
The global Snapchat community engages with AR an average of 6 billion times per day to play, shop, learn, and express themselves. Get discovered in the Snapchat Lens carousel, Lens Explorer, in Spotlight content, and more!

BUILT FOR YOUR SUCCESS
Lens Studio is designed to help beginner and advanced developers find success with the right tools to help them get the job done. Now, you can spend more time creating and less time on logistics, so you can build your best work.

Release notes:
NEW
- The Lens Performance Toolkit enables Lens Developers to view performance statistics of their Lens efficiency when running on devices.
- The Masking Component helps to make sure content is visible only within a certain window of the screen. It helps create an invisible frame that hides content when that content moves outside of frame.
- The Face Stickers template allows you to quickly build a face sticker Lens. With this template, you can place any images or texts of your choice on positions relative to the face.
- The Necklace Try-On Template offers a quick way for you to get started with Necklace based AR Try-On Lens experiences.
- With the Eyewear Try-On Template, Lens Developers can create unique glasses AR Try-On experiences at professional level. The Eyewear Try-On Template offers a quick way for you to get started with Glasses based Try-On experiences.
- The "What ___ Are You?" Template allows you to build your own unique spinner Lens by simply providing a list of words, images, colors, or a combination of them.

IMPROVEMENTS
- Face Tracking effects working will now perform more optimally when used together with the Garment Transfer custom component.
- Footwear Try-On has been updated to a SnapML model that better detects the user’s foot and provides a better quality try-on experience.
- The Earring Try-On template has been updated to showcase additional features to enhance the user experience.
- City-Scale AR template has been updated to showcase more in-depth information about how City-Scale AR Content works.
- The Wristwear Try-On template has been updated to utilize a new wrist occluder asset that is customizable to fit your Lens Experience.

FIXED
- Fixed issue with vertex color on latest Nvidia drivers
- Fixed issue with shaders/materials on latest Nvidia drivers
- Fixed issue when remote assets rendered without textures
- Fixed Tween Manager example
- Fixed issue when LS crashed when trying to attach VSCode debugger