The Facebook people are still trying to make Messenger become a global video calling service and now they do it by adding new filters with increased reality.
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Video calls have become perfectly natural in our day to day, both for work and personal reasons. These latest video calls often have an informal component that many companies try to take advantage of.
Facebook seems determined that users use Messenger or Messenger Rooms for their video calls that the latest addition is intended to capture the attention of users. Now you can use filters with augmented reality.
To get an idea, these filters are very similar to the ones that some users create for Instagram stories. And, since Instagram is a property of Facebook, the new filters for video calls would also reach this social network.
What Facebook tries with this new addition is that the conversations are much more dynamic and, also, informal. In the samples you have given Facebook what you can see is that there are even small mini-games.
The filters are quite striking, although we will have to wait until their arrival to check if they work correctly or if they remain as a characteristic that does not finish curdling and that they have to remove in a while.
Facebook’s incentive for users to start using this type of filters is that they work in group calls, thus facilitating the interaction of the topic of conversation with other users and who are participating in the video call.
So far this feature is only available to users with iOS devices, although it is expected that it will soon begin to reach computers that have the Mountain View operating system.
Of course, having an iOS device does not ensure that the feature is available. In fact, the launch will be carried out progressively so it is possible that in a few weeks this will begin to appear. new feature.
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