Join the first ever prized Call for Content from Lenslist! 🤩 We partnered with Spark AR to bring monetization opportunities to the most active, inspiring and innovative members of the AR Creators Community.

We challenge you to…

Create and publish a World AR Effect on Instagram that will allow IG users to experience your version of the Halloween Tricks&Treats 🎃

Halloween Tricks&Treats (it’s not a mistake, we want both!) means we’re looking for the most interactive, fun and clever AR Effects you can make. We especially welcome:

• Halloween-themed AR Games (here we allow an exception from World AR, if you use facial expressions as game controls),
• Halloween costumes Try-ons (tip: you can also use Face Tracking for the back camera),
• User-centric Meme-like Effects.

All working on the back camera of your device.

Prizes

Creators who’ll come up with the most creative, innovative and interesting Effects will be awarded with:

• 4 x $5,000 – Four Top finalists,
• 10 x $1,000 – Ten honorable mentions with some cash to back the honors up!

Judging Criteria

• 25%: Craftsmanship: technical achievements, capabilities used, ability to take advantage of the platform;
• 25% Originality: uniqueness, difference from other submissions;
• 25%: Creativity: creativity of elements used to create the Effect;
• 25%: Theme: how well the Effect makes use of the contest theme.

Timeline

What is World AR?

When talking about World AR, we mean all AR Effects designed for the back camera of your smartphone that place AR objects into people’s surroundings.

One way of doing this is by moving an object from camera space into world space. If an object is in world space, you can set it to be in a fixed location in someone’s environment. Only mobile devices with gyroscopes can use Effects in world space.

Video tutorial

Tutorial: Creating World Effects

Another way of creating a world Effect is with the plane tracker, which finds a horizontal surface in the real world, like a floor to table. We highly encourage you to explore tracking with recently upgraded possibilities and accuracy, both for plane and target tracking.

Learn how to create a World AR Effect in Spark AR 📖

Step 1: Introduction to World AR

Step 2: Creating a Particle World Effect

Step 3: Plane Tracker

Step 4: Target Tracker

Step 5: Scaling Objects for the Real World

Who Can Take Part?

• This Contest is open globally (see exceptions in Further Rules & Guidelines below),

• You need to be at least 18 years old,

• Employees of Facebook, Inc. and Lenslist (both Lenslist and Lens That) and their immediate family are not eligible to participate,

• Both individual Creators and collaborative Teams of 2-4 Creators can participate.

How to Take Part?

1. Create & Publish your World AR Effect

• First things first – Design your AR Effect in Spark AR and then publish it on Instagram. Download Spark AR here,
• Keep in mind, your Effect should coincide with the theme: Halloween Tricks&Treats 🎃,
• Your AR project can’t include references to any real people, dangerous situations, other brands, show or imply alcohol or drunkenness, or anything offensive,
• It has to be original! It means you can’t use any third-party pre-existing copyright materials and/or stock images in your project. No other person or entity may have rights to any submitted Work, while you can still use royalty free assets,
• If you have already created an Effect that fits our criteria, you can use it as a submission, provided it was developed for non-commercial use,
• Keep in mind that in order for your submission to be valid, Effects must be published on your Instagram account via Spark AR Hub. If your Effect didn’t go through the verification process yet, you can also submit it using the demo link. Go here to find out how to publish a link-only effect,
• All Facebook/Instagram accounts must be at least thirty (30) days old and have not changed the age or date of birth in the last 30 days prior to entering the Contest,
• Works must follow Facebook’s Community Standards and comply with Facebook’s Terms of Service, Spark AR Studio Terms, Spark AR and Frame Studio Terms and Spark AR Policies,
• Important note: Retain your original source files in the highest quality possible, as we might need them to make the final decision.
• Go here to read the full Terms & Conditions.

2. Submit your World AR Effect

• Each Creator or Team can submit 10 Effects max,
• Each and every Effect should be submitted separately,
• When submitting your first Effect, you’ll have to fill in a short form concerning your Spark AR experience and basic personal information,
• In order to take part you need to have a valid Facebook account,
• In 24h you will get a confirmation email from our Lenslist Team, so that you can be sure your entry was valid and in accordance with our Terms & Conditions.
• Go to the form at the bottom of this page and submit your Halloween Tricks&Treats 🎃!

Further Rules & Guidelines

• Make sure you read our Contest Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy before submitting,
• This Contest IS NOT open to: Individuals who are residents of, or entities/organizations domiciled in countries noted in the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions: American Samoa, Anguilla, Dominica, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Seychelles, as well as Brazil, Quebec, or any country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating in the Contest (including, but not limited to, Crimea, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any other country designated by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control),
• The creation and submission of an Effect does not create any employment relationship between the Participant and Facebook or Lenslist,
• Your ideas are safe with us! Submissions will not be visible to the public on Lenslist until the Submission Period is over,
• Although, during the Submission Period, your project may be featured on Lenslist social media channels, of course with credits given to you, only as a way of spreading the word about our Call for Content,
• Your design is your property and it will stay that way,
• Effects submitted for our Contest can be used by you for personal, non-commercial and portfolio use only,
• You can use free assets (eg. from Sketchfab) or those with royalty-free, non-commercial license as a part of your submitted Effect,
• All rights in and to the material provided in this brief are reserved by Facebook Inc.,
• During the verification process, you may be asked to provide the original files of your work, so be sure you saved them in high quality!
• Lenslist reserves the right to remove inappropriate, offensive and harmful submissions as well as projects that do not fit the brief,
• Submitting your Effect to our Contest is totally free. Both downloading the software and entering the Contest do not require any additional fee on your part.