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Francis Chen 🇵🇸

@fncischen

8 months

What a @SnapAR Custom Landmarker looks like in the living room lol

Francis Chen 🇵🇸

@fncischen

8 months

Really loving the @SnapAR Lens Studio 4.55 Update! The AR Custom Landmarkers now include color scans on the viewport so you can easily plan your 3D location based scenes out w/the right colors! Going to be much easier to work w/ clients on this - thanks @SnapAR team! 😎

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2 years

How to place cats on green screens using Adobe After Effects everywhere

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The most cyberpunk looking view of Chongqing I’ve ever seen lol

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The signage bros know what’s up

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Working w cars using Apple Vision Pro

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What is it like to have your dog try on Apple Vision Pro

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2 months

Italian restaurant in New York City metro area TikTok live-streaming their cooking process, about 4.2k viewers. Insane lol 😂

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2 months

Burrito Trucks in Los Angeles doing TikTok livestreams now lol. About 9k ppl watching the livestream. Ngl the mom and pops are adopting social e-commerce in USA faster than big brands lol

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Vinida Weng performs “WAIYA” a Chinese styled amapiano that has very strong Fujian influences with South African rhythm. Incredible fusion of cultures 🇿🇦🇨🇳

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3 months

Chinese rap addicting AF lol 🇨🇳

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11 months

Behind the scenes (Under The Sea) - The Little Mermaid Live Action scene with Sebastian the Crab (Halle Bailey and Daveed Diggs)

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2 years

Damn those flame throw kick Adobe After Effects

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4 years

Punk Rock cover of Disney's Moana, How Far I'll Go 🔥🙉🐵🙈

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2 years

Need to visit Guangzhou

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In Wuhan, do TikTok dance battles across apartments with your neighbors 🙌😹

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1 year

Not going to lie, this is the most legit use of @threejs camera and IK animation I’ve seen from @abernier_ ; makes me want to plop my own 3D models to do the same

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6 months

“With China’s one stop service, you can buy an entire house from China and bring it home”

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4 years

@TamarWrites @balloon_wanted @OH_mes2 @Forbes Damn not just that, but the unpaid volunteer labor of the Kdrama subtitlers

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2 years

Holy shit these Chinese clothing transitions in Douyin to these traditional garments. Insane

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3 years

Hand haptics remote control car

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4 months

@RnaudBertrand China would have many of India’s economic caste system issues if it weren’t for Mao Zedong. Many ppl forget this

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Burrito Trucks in Los Angeles doing TikTok livestreams now lol. About 9k ppl watching the livestream. Ngl the mom and pops are adopting social e-commerce in USA faster than big brands lol

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3 months

How to get arrested in the metaverse with an Apple Vision Pro

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1 year

Damn, this is cheating! Native browser camera crane shot editing/movement using @theatre_js , an extension of @threejs . The dream to do all camera animation sequence editing for 3D cinematic cutscenes natively on the web browser. More ppl should use See:

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4 years

Holy crap this TikTok anime filter is so cool

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1 year

“Why is the US afraid of China (but not Japan or Korea)?”

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3 years

Testing the durability and strength of kitchen knives on the street

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1 year

What is a plastic factory like in China? So cool that the factory owner built housing for his workers, so the employees and their spouses and kids can live in worker housing for *free*

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3 months

Bro is using the Tesla app on the Apple Vision Pro to control his Tesla 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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2 years

Japan vs NYC underground subway walkways

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1 year

What is it like to live in a high rise in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

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4 years

Thread: 1/ The Chinese version of TikTok, 抖音, is branching out into the health & wellness market by really leveraging AR to experiment with exercise through AR exercise games

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4 years

Oh my god. Check out this @Zedd AR virtual concert from Snapchat. This is epic. Now we can have virtual concerts in AR, built from @SnapLensStudio Check it out!

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1 year

Eating out in Paris during the protests

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4 months

China would have many of India’s economic caste system issues if it weren’t for Mao Zedong. Many ppl forget this and this gets lost in a lot of Masters IR programs in the US

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This is genuinely astonishing to me: how can you be a university professor teaching China to Americans and not even comprehend why the Chinese still widely admire Mao? Look no further for the reason why America systematically gets China dead wrong... If you somehow managed to…

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Francis Chen 🇵🇸

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4 years

Oh man, putting this Snapchat AR jellyfish sky segmentation filter in my backyard. Great use of world scale AR

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3 years

Zara SOHO NYC motion graphic display store

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11 months

Can’t believe these buildings in Nanjing China look real lol. Looks like Midjourney

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2 years

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam skyline

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9 months

Playing with @SnapAR world mesh to make a AR physics collision of a 3D sphere so fun to record lol 😂

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1 year

Chongqing is the most cyberpunk looking city in China need to go

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3 months

What is it like to wear Apple Vision Pro on a first date

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1 year

@kemimarie facts its really okay to not feel okay with everything right now

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1 year

Every AR developer’s dream of LiDAR / Depth API

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3 months

Chinese rap addicting AF lol 🇨🇳

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3 months

Gen Z energy

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4 years

Omg these TikTok AR anime filters are now video friendly now ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🤗🤗🤗

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1 year

Blade Runner Beach, Qingdao China

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1 year

This library in Kochi Japan looks legit

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2 years

@Carnage4Life I like how some places (thx to Colorado law) are required to put salary range for job postings. It saves the back and forth posturing that comes from recruiters and talent discussing salary and makes talking about money less taboo

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4 years

What an AR grocery store could look like

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2 years

Using @SnapAR human segmentation to bake human occlusion for AR 3D objects whenever human is in front of object

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1 year

Did some 3D Chinese neon signage in Blender last week; love it

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6 months

Lol 3D asset that was generated using Luma Labs AI Genie

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1 year

Damn

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4 years

Impressed with these new @SnapLensStudio AR World Lens Tigers, where I can turn my backyard into a night tiger scene

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2 years

Damn these Chinese CGI visual effects are great reference videos for the potential of AR hand tracking for virtual production and film

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4 years

Massive livestream setup

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1 year

@axl99 Also Studio Fortische benefits from having a lot of French atelier trained art professionals (especially in painting/drawing) which does make a big difference in animation production pipeline

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5 years

Time lapse of Tulum Summers // painted with @Procreate

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10 months

Damn I thought this was a Midjourney cafe, turns out this is a real coffee shop in Suzhou China

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4 years

Stop-motion animation by @shinohara_kenta shows that animation as a genre can thrive on TikTok. ♥️

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4 years

🌃 Seoul Cityscape // inspired by @noealz Seoul urban photography

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8 months

whats funny for me as a Chinese-American is that I would probably get treated much better in like UAE, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Venezuela, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, than the USA given the trade/cultural relations happening right now. this is insane lol.

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11 months

@theamberyang Ambition can mean different things to different people - what I’ve learned through my travels. It’s much better to optimize where your tribe gathers and relocate there based on that definition

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4 years

"World building benefits from the study of 3D math via observing nature - fluids, flora, particles, light, acoustics, etc, as they shape elements of successful spaces in architecture or interior design & are critical assets to our sensory experiences."

Embracing a "3D math / physics state of mind" in the immersive media economy

On how having a "3D math state of mind" gives us a common vocabulary to create immersive worlds from scratch

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4 years

Oh man, I love this TikTok AR UX - procedural AR painting on your face, using your fingers to paint make up #futuregoals #gesturedesign

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2 years

How to do AR debugging for work: add a bunch of gimbal objects lol 😂

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5 years

🌵Going to start painting more nature! Inspired by Arizona landscapes. Painted with @Procreate

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1 year

That Chinese forest yo

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1 year

Greenery under Chengdu Second Ring Road Freeway in China

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4 years

Chongqing Cyberpunk of TikTok

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4 years

Love this TikTok AR filter 🌳 Gesture your hand in the shape of a heart, and the Computer Vision algorithms recognize the foilage and turn them into beautiful purple trees and plants

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2 years

@TaDeoAsojano @AchmatX @Columbia @NYCMayorsOffice This is too true. Ex city planner here - very common more than most folks realize

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3 years

Got my @SnapAR 4th Gen Spectacles in the mail this morning! Can’t wait to experiment with the AR community here together. Thank you @SnapAR @Spectacles team!

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4 years

Love how this TikTok is set up to make AR social: 1) Show a reaction clip of a TikTok cool filter 2) Another TikTok user cosplays and pushes the boundaries of the TikTok filter The TikTok "duet" feature & UX mindset is much needed to increase AR engagement

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3 years

Learned how to write an animated particle system from scratch using three.js and WebGL (note to self, reading low level graphics is pretty crazy, especially if you're used to Unity setting it up all for you)

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9 months

How to use giant DJI helicopter to water your plants 🪴

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1 year

Man missing 24 hour Taipei Taiwanese breakfast- definitely need to go back to Taiwan

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4 years

Seoul Nightscape // inspired by @noealz work // painted with @Procreate

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4 years

How the TikTok algorithm works, explained on TikTok

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Bro did an Apple Vision Pro drop test! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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1 year

How I’m getting these videos this is crazy lol

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4 years

What happens when you use wand movement from your hands to make procedural grass come alive in front of you

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2 years

These grandma rappers will be famous

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1 year

Crazy that @SnapAR Lens Studio has Downtown LA for City Scale AR - who wants to do an AR Lens on the Intercontential Hotel DTLA?

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2 years

My Twitter is back y’all! Whooooooooooooooo While I have been away, I’ve been working a shit ton on AR fashion experiments on @Snapchat as I’ve been really putting more emphasis on immersive pop up retail Can’t wait to catch up on everything 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀

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2 years

preview of a world i'm building for the @monaverse competition🌆

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This sword spawning cherry blossom scene is inspiring

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9 months

How to use AR hand tracking to spawn some AR physics balls to collide with the AR world mesh in real time using @SnapAR Lens Studio 😎

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9 months

Playing with @SnapAR world mesh to make a AR physics collision of a 3D sphere so fun to record lol 😂

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Francis Chen 🇵🇸

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8 months

Really loving the @SnapAR Lens Studio 4.55 Update! The AR Custom Landmarkers now include color scans on the viewport so you can easily plan your 3D location based scenes out w/the right colors! Going to be much easier to work w/ clients on this - thanks @SnapAR team! 😎

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3 years

Applied my cool motion graphics material to the 3D AR Body Mesh available on Snap Lens Studio to use. Lots of room for experimentation

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2 years

Giant Chinese goldfish spawning from the river of a bridge

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1 year

Designed a 3D Hong Kong double decker bus in Blender and placed it next to the ground floor retail shop - all at street level

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2 years

These rooftop Ho Chi Minh City coffee shops are a vibe

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2 years

Just learned Snap @Spectacles can handle hand physics so legit lol 😂

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1 year

What a time to be alive. @Roblox graphics have improved tremendously these past 3-4 years - felt like I was looking at hyper realistic HDRI lighting. This is super promising for the types of virtual worlds we can create in terms of scale/distribution

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