Tokyo Time Machine is Snapchat’s Spectacle feature that shows historical information of Tokyo as you take a stroll. If you haven’t, watch this video:
Since the feature is location based, this only can be experience in Tokyo.
You simply put on your Spectacle, choose your lenses as you would on Snapchat. All that’s left is to experience it- except you don’t need to hold a phone. As you glance on a historic place, information of the place will show up. However, not all of Tokyo’s historic place has this feature.
How can I get this?
Tokyo Time Machine is available only on Spectacle. Unfortunately, the device is only for developers currently. Developers like The Designium, the creator of Tokyo Time Machine use Spectacle to create amazing lenses.
What is Spectacle?
Spectacle is – well, a spectacle developed by Snapchat to view lenses without the need of phones.
A general term for lenses would be filters which intends to enhances camera experiences. Filters like Crying Face is popularly used for humour. Filters use Augmented Reality to achieve this.
Who created this lens?
Based in Aizuwakamatsu City Fukushima, The Designium is a technology and design company that has been developing interesting applications for Augmented Reality.
Recently, The Designium launched AR VPS Builder, a service to build more Augmented Reality applications using Lightship ARDK. Tokyo Time Machine is one of such Augmented Reality application but is using Lens Studio.
Official site: https://www.thedesignium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesignium