![]() Starting with the Electric Daisy Carnival next month in Las Vegas, concertgoers can use AR to try on merchandise, find friends and discover AR experiences around the festival grounds. Other festivals that will be deploying Snap’s AR include Lollapalooza in Chicago, Wireless Festival in London, Rolling Loud in Miami and The Governors Ball in New York, the company said. Snap’s New Camera DroneĪs mentioned, Snap will now sell a pocket-sized flying camera called Pixy. CEO Evan Spiegel pitched the device as a new creative tool allowing users to capture photos and videos from new, aerial angles. The mini-drone comes with four preset flight paths that users can select with the press of a button, no controller needed. Pixy “knows when and where to return” and lands gently in the palm of your hand, Spiegel said. From there, users can wirelessly transfer the aerial shots to their Snapchat accounts. Snap advised customers to check out their local laws and regulations around drones before letting Pixy take flight. Snap’s AR glasses, meanwhile, are not yet for sale. The latest Spectacles are currently being tested by “hundreds” of developers who’ve received early access, according to Sophia Dominguez, Snap’s head of AR platform partnerships. Speaking of creative tools, Snapchat is rolling out a new suite of camera and editing features, called Director Mode, allowing users to make more polished content. One feature will allow creators to use a smartphone’s front-facing and back-facing cameras at the same time-letting them record what’s in front of them while capturing their reaction simultaneously. Snap is also making it easier to seamlessly transform the backgrounds of videos through its Green Screen mode- similar to an existing feature on TikTok-while its Quick Edit mode lets users easily edit together multiple Snaps. #Snap creative kit theverge androidĭirector Mode will roll out on Apple devices in the coming months, followed by Android devices later this year. Snap has allowed creators to attach AR experiences to physical locations. There’s quite literally more of it to talk about with each passing day.In addition to new products and features, Snap’s executives touted the size and engagement of the company’s user base. And as for space, it’s big, cold and ever-expanding, apparently. Meanwhile, supply chain constraints and security concerns have caused many to rethink how the world manufacturers. With Apple expected to announce a headset in June, the XR scene is set to be blown wide open. Like the rest of you, we’d really love to discuss what’s next for smartphones after several down years. We’re talking hardware investing, design and manufacturing. I’m equally excited to finally give consumer electronics the love they deserve on the Disrupt stage. It’s a revolution that’s already well under way, and we’ll be exploring the topic from some novel angles. Automation is on the verge of transforming every aspect of our lives, for better and worse. Robotics has been top of mind in recent years - in fact, the last three have been among the most exciting in the category’s history. Trust me, you’re going to want to tune in for this one. It’s been a rough couple of years for hardware broadly - and like everything else in this world, it’s coming out the other end transformed. I would argue that we’re currently barreling toward the latter. By now you’re probably saying, “Brian, first of all, this is exciting news, and second of all, it’s impossible to cover the entirety of hardware in a single do.” To that I say, first of all, thank you, and second of all, yes that is a very astute and well-reasoned question, but as problems go, it’s a good one to have.Īs with any broad category, excitement tends to ebb and flow. What that means, in practical terms, is that each of these categories is getting a full day of stage programming - panels, firesides, the whole nine. We’re adding six industry stages to the show, each focused on a distinct aspect of TechCrunch’s coverage: AI, fintech, hardware, SaaS, security and sustainability. That’s right folks, Disrupt is getting disrupted, and we are its disruptors. ![]() The event, which is hitting San Francisco’s Moscone Center September 19-21, 2023, will shake up the show you know and love. The good news is such difficulties give us a lot to talk about - and as it happens, for the first time, hardware is getting its own stage at Disrupt 2023. ![]() We’ve all heard the cliché - and implicitly understand it to be truth. Let’s start with an obvious truth: Hardware is hard.
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