Snapchat is launching Ghost Phone this Thursday, July 28, the first augmented reality (AR) game on the platform, which offers an interactive experience where players must know whose phone is found.

This title introduces a new genre of narrative gaming and, thanks to this technology, enables surface recognition, combined with an application lens during game development.

In particular, Ghost Phone has been developed using Snap’s own technologies: the web-first game engine, Playcanvas and Lens Studio, to take advantage of the scanning solution.

To access this game just need to search for its name in Lens Explorer and cracked the password to turn on the Phantom Phone.

Clues must then be found in text messages and data. and thus unlocks a new camera mode to be able to capture AR ghosts.

Snap recalls that currently more than 200 million people use AR on the platform every day, with an average of 6,000 million daily uses.

He also highlighted that more than a quarter million creators have created more than 2.5 million lenses that have been viewed 3.5 billion times.

Snapchat announces subscriptions with exclusive features for its “most passionate” users

Snapchat announced a subscription service that gives access to an additional set of features that differ from those on the standard social platform, which the company targets its “most passionate” users.

Snapchat users will be able to discover a new set of features, exclusives, in testing or even before their official launch, in the new monthly subscriptions the company is rolling out.

Snapchat+, as the service is called, costs $3.99 per month, and is a first in a limited number of countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), with the aim of bringing it to more markets in the future.

“This subscription will allow us to bring new Snapchat features to some of the most passionate members of our community. and will allow us to provide priority assistance,” the company said in a statement.

Telegram will officially bring its premium option

Telegram announced the launch of its Telegram Premium subscription service, a payment option that came just as the platform became one of the five application downloaded worldwide in 2022 and to date registered more than 700 million active users per month.

The company announced in late 2020 that it would start monetizing its service a year later., after the increase in active users of the platform. Thanks to this change, you will be able to face the maintenance challenges posed by user generated traffic.

Now when ranked among the top five most downloaded apps worldwide so far this year and with more than 700 million monthly active users, it has revealed the characteristics of its new payment option.

Telegram Premium integrates a series of additional functions announced by developer expert in reverse engineering Alessandro Paluzzi a few days ago, who shared screenshots with new exclusive functions.

Now when ranked among the top five most downloaded apps worldwide so far this year and with more than 700 million monthly active users, it has revealed the characteristics of its new payment option.

Telegram Premium integrates a series of additional functions announced by developer expert in reverse engineering Alessandro Paluzzi a few days ago, who shared screenshots with new exclusive functions.

*With information from Europa Press.