Snap Maps update makes your Bitmoji’s world look a bit snazzier

One 12 months after launching Snap Maps, Snap is giving its geolocation function a lot extra visible aptitude with two updates coming quickly. The primary large update, World Results, provides snazzy animations and coloration schemes to the maps. It’ll ship you and your associates a blast of confetti on your birthdays, and themed maps may also be rolled out for explicit holidays and “cultural occasions.” Maps which are opened round Valentine’s Day will flip landmasses pink and fluffy, for instance, whereas doing the identical factor round Halloween will reveal a extra ghoulish coloration scheme — with different vacation themes on the best way. The opposite update introduced right now, Climate Results, provides animations based mostly on the climate the place the Snapchat consumer is. A consumer caught exterior on a significantly wet or snowy day will be capable to open their Map, zoom in, and see their avatar caught in the identical state of affairs. Snap Maps acquired a lot of press prior to now, notably for giving customers the possibility to expertise breaking information and occasions across the world in actual time. Nonetheless, lighthearted updates like this are additionally vital to customers, Snap product designer Jack Brody instructed Mashable. ”That’s one thing we intention to drag in to all the pieces that we do,” he stated. “We’re all the time pondering how can we maintain this playful, how can we maintain this private and permit it to really feel prefer it’s alive.” The timeline on these updates remains to be unclear, however Snapchat says they’re “coming quickly.” https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17485242/snap-maps-update-bitmoji-world-effects-snapchat