With the news that Meta will be closing its augmented reality studio at the start of next year, Instagram’s popular AR ...

Creators are unhappy with Meta’s decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects. In posts published to the Meta Spark ...

Meta has announced third-party augmented reality filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. The ...

The augmented reality or AR studio Meta Spark platform will be shut down effective January 14, its parent company Meta Platforms Inc announced on Wednesday. According to the social media giant ...

Meta said it's shutting down its augmented-reality studio Spark early next year. The feature allows AR developers to make custom effects for apps like Instagram and Facebook. AR effects have ...

First launched in 2017, Meta Spark debuted when augmented reality experiences were still relatively novel and new to many consumers. Since then, the AR effects have been used "billions of times ...

From 14 January 2025, the social media giant’s collection of third-party AR tools and content will no longer be available Meta has announced the closure of its Spark AR Studio platform.

That’s because Meta has confirmed that it will be shutting down its Spark platform, which lets anyone create AR filters that can be used on the camera within apps like Instagram and Facebook.

Anyone who wants to save AR effects they’ve made with Meta Spark can do so using these instructions, copied from Meta’s FAQ: ...

However, users who rely on Meta-owned AR effects won’t be affected as they will continue to exist even after Spark’s shutdown. “Those who use Spark and our third-party AR Effects can ...

Meta Platforms Inc. announced its decision to shut down augmented reality or AR studio Meta Spark platform, effective January 14, 2025. According to the social media giant, the decision to shut ...