AR NFT

unlock patterns


Enter your purchase code confirming you are the current owner of the effect:


Select your NFT to view the dynamically generated authorization code to unlock it:








Codes will remain valid for 5 minutes each. Draw pattern above to unlock the AR effect





Unlock02 - beachballing

View it: Snapchat AR filter
Unlock method: pattern

When unlocking this filter, an interactive beachballing facemask will be projected on you. Whether that's representing frustration about the cumbersome procedure to unlock this content, or whether it symbolizes you patiently waiting for this NFT to increase in value, that's up to you to decide.



The unlock mechanism is included to deal with the fact that these AR effects residing on public platforms. They need to be, because facefilter effects or digital fashion needs to be accessible by anyone, standing in front of you looking at you through their AR glasses. Thanks to the unlock pattern mechanism and the dynamically generated codes, you can reveal the effect to others but you can still remain the unique owner of this piece of AR content.





Faceflipper

View it: Snapchat AR or Snap Camera (for Teams/Zoom)

Part of the "Gamify yourself" collection, which will be a set of five NFT facefilter games which are designed based on one specific condition: instead of using the head detection to turn the player into a substitute mouse or gamepad controlling another game element, in these facefilter games the player is an integral part of the gameplay.


What? Why? How?

Owning an #NFT can be an investment or a way to support an artist or you buy something because you like it a lot. But once bought, your jpg, gif or movieclip is likely to remain hidden in your online inventory most of the time. But when buying a facefilter NFT you can actually use your purchased effect. You can view your augmented self with a smartphone app. But when altering your identity in this way, what you want is that others will see your altered identity. Thanks to the Snap Camera program it's now possible to activate these effects during a Zooms session. But once consumer AR glasses will hit the market, that's how other people are going to see your semi-digital appearance. The facefilter effects should be moving with you accross new devices and platforms.

But how to achieve that on current NFT markets? Today's visualisation tools and platforms might not be the ones we'll use in the future. So adding a link to the filter-effect on a specific platform, creates a dependency on that platform. What if it ceases to exist?

Packaging a whole filter effect into a file and offer it like the static jpg or movieclip content, would that be a way to guarantee the effect remains available? It moves the responsibility to the owner. Having the required technical skills, he/she could recreate the filter on a new platform based on the provided assets. But that also means that not only the current owner of the NFT, but also all the previous owners do have the components needed to create one or more versions of the effect. The uniqueness of the NFT is somehow lost.

So what's needed to put a facefilter for sale on a NFT marketplace? And is it possible to let them be available only to the current owner and no longer for previous owners? To achieve that situation the NFT's on this website have a build-in authorisation pattern. The code to unlock the filter can be found on the website. And it will only be provided to the visitor who currently owns the token, which will be verified by asking someone to login with the Metamask Chrome plugin installed so the ownership can be verified. This step in the verification process will be implemented soon, but for now the Snapcodes on the site can be used to check out the filters and see the authorisation procedure in action.