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This acquisition happened a few months ago, according to the report.
Whether Snapchat does develop something with VR, 3D photos will be a boon to the company’s burgeoning advertising business. It isn’t clear why Snapchat and Obvious Engineering did not want to disclose the purchase, but TechCrunch managed to find out about it last Friday.
Snapchat has secretly acquired a phone-based 3D capture company called Seene, possibly for a future full of three-dimensional or augmented reality snaps, reports TechCrunch.
Snapchat recently passed Twitter in popularity and has more than 150 million daily.
This is actually a good deal for Seene, since it will be part of a larger entity.
Another thing that remains unknown as of now is that would the company let Seene operate as an independent app or would it shut it down and have the features fully merged into its own main app.
So this means you could soon be receiving 3D Snapchats that move and respond to your touch.
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The technology behind Seene utilizes your smartphone camera to create a 3D image of whatever you point it at. In latest news which comes to us via Droidmen, Snapchat has now taken over Seene, an app that is known for “3D Selfies”.
