Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens (gizmodo.co.uk)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: It's not a great time to visit the UK as a tourist. Besides all the Brexit nonsense and the December weather, one of our greatest tourist spots is under scaffolding and silent. Poor old Big Ben (and its Elizabeth Tower) are undergoing refurbishment at the moment, so there's not much to see if you want to snap a photo of the famous view. Snapchat's decided the way to fix this is with a Westminster-specific Snapchat Lens. When you activate the lens and point the Snap camera at the tower, the scaffolding peels back and Large Benjamin is there in all his glory again. Eitan Pilipski, VP of the Snap Camera Platform, said in a statement: "We are thrilled to unwrap Big Ben for our Snapchat community in London. This holiday, we wanted to showcase the imaginative power of Snap's Augmented Reality experiences by deconstructing the scaffolding around Big Ben -- at least for a few special moments. We believe that every great AR experience reveals new possibilities. Our goal was to bring together the most cutting edge mapping and imaging technologies to create the kind of unique, location-specific experience that only Snap -- and perhaps Father Christmas -- can deliver."

Comments

Re:"Brexit nonsense"

[serviscope_minor]

Well you just managed to successfully define "globalist" as "someone who isn't an utter fuckwit".

Here's the thing. I've engaged a few Brexiteers in debate. Every single one of them had been both ignorant of the facts, hard of reasoning and really addicted to slogans.

The stupid thing is that the"London elites" who voted remain will be hit least hard and the poorer regions who voted leave will be utterly screwed over. Morons like you will still blame on everyone else.

Re: "Brexit nonsense"

[serviscope_minor]

Well thanks for illustrating my point about Brexiteers being ignorant of facts and hard of thinking.

er the incomprehensible truth that people in general are smart enough to not vote against their own best interest, no matter how hard you pout.

Truth lol. Well that's demonstrably not true. Take Wales for instance. Abandoned by successive governments since it's annexation by England in 1282. They did however get av lot of regional development funds from the EU. Now they're gong to go back to being ignored and unfunded.