Virtual effects set the mood for video conferencing. It doesn’t matter if he has a mustache, bulging eyes or a completely different head borrowed from the animal kingdom. But not soon with the Snap Camera.
Whether it’s a banana or a chihuahua: If you want to use Snapchat’s funny face filters, you should also use Snapchat for video calling in the future.
Here’s how the company’s announcement to discontinue Snap Camera can be interpreted. Facial filter software for Windows and Mac, which can be integrated into any video chat program as a virtual webcam, will be discontinued on January 25th.
From this date it will no longer be available for download on Snapchat and, according to information, it will no longer work on computers where it is already installed. The company gives on the net Advice to uninstall Snap Camera.
If you want to continue using Snap Camera’s familiar face filters on your desktop computer, you can only do so for video calls using the web version of Snapchat (Snapchat for Web). The filters mentioned in Snapchat lenses are also available for smartphone video chats.
(dpa)
