Instagram now allows you to create and share AR skins and effects to any user
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You can now create your own filters for Instagram and upload them to Stories thanks to Spark AR Studio, a tool that was unveiled at Facebook's F8 developer conference, and is finally coming out of the closed beta. Creating your filters is very simple. On the official website of Spark AR you will find all the necessary tools to create visual effects. All available for free.
Until now, only a few developers had the ability to design their own filters in augmented reality. According to the company, more than 1 billion users around the world have used the technology behind Spark AR. With the opening of this public beta, this figure is expected to skyrocket and many more people will let their imagination run wild and make it known on Instagram.
How to create your own augmented reality filters for Instagram Stories
As we say, creating your own filters with Spark AR is very easy. Once you have downloaded the tool to your computer, whether it is MacOS or Windows, you will see an advanced editor with which you can work with different templates and graphic elements to use base when making masks or filters. In any case, if creativity has been failing you lately, Facebook offers a website full of examples of skins created with Spark AR.So you can get ideas.
Videos are also included with the stories of some of the artists who, during the months of closed beta, have collaborated with the company to create the first filters. In any case, Facebook wasn't the first to let its users create their own filters. Snapchat opened up access to Lens Studio early last year, and he later created Lens Explorer to make it easy to find user-made AR lenses. We imagine the Spark AR open beta will be around for some time. Any change or news we will let you know immediately.
