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Augmented reality experiences are increasingly appearing everywhere, in fact more than a billion people have used AR effects powered by Spark AR. But if you’re just beginning to explore how to make AR effects, it can be a challenge to comb through all the information you might find. To help, we put together the top 10 questions we get from creators and developers who are new to Spark AR, along with some links to resources you might find useful. We hope this helps you get orientated and quickly into the fun stuff: Bringing your augmented reality ideas to life. Let’s dig in.
#1 How do I create AR effects?
There are a variety of ways to create AR effects, but if you’re interested in creating effects that people can experience on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll need to use Spark AR Studio.
#2 What is Spark AR Studio?
Spark AR Studio is Facebook’s AR creation software. Anyone can use Spark AR Studio to create simple to complex AR experiences with or without coding experience. You can learn more at SparkAR.com and download Spark AR Studio for free, for your macOS or Windows computer.
#3 Is it easy to learn how to use Spark AR Studio?
From the start, our goal was to make Spark AR Studio the most accessible and powerful AR creation tool any creator, at any skill level, could use to make AR experiences. We’re constantly listening to our community of creators and adding features and enhancements that make Spark AR Studio even easier to use: from libraries where you can find and import 3D objects and audio files, to time-saving shortcuts that auto-create face trackers, materials, textures, and lighting, to visual programming capabilities like our Patch Editor, which helps creators make complex interactive effects without using a single line of code. We think when you combine all of these features together, learning how to use Spark AR Studio for the first time is incredibly manageable. However, if you’d like to learn more before diving into your first AR project, we have a helpful guide that walks through the entire Spark AR Studio interface.
#4 What kind of AR effects can I create with Spark AR Studio?
What do you want to create? As the possibilities continue to multiply, we’re working fast to find and share the best practices for creating AR effects, but typically creators are using Spark AR Studio to make two categories of AR effects: 1) People effects, this is any effect that responds to someone’s face, hands or body movements; or 2) World effects, this is any effect that adds virtual objects to real-world places, or otherwise alters their environment. Here are two quick examples of people and world effects:
#5 Do I need coding skills to create AR effects with Spark AR Studio?
Nope, no coding skills are required. You can start learning how to create effects immediately, especially if you use the step-by-step guides and video tutorials in our Spark AR Learning Center. Now, if you happen to know JavaScript, that’s great too — you’ll be able to use some additional capabilities of Spark AR Studio to create more complex interactions and experiences, faster.