Beautifying Selfie App Meitu Partners with Facebook for AR Project

Global social media giant Facebook has partnered with a Chinese selfie app called Meitu to bring Augmented Reality features to the Facebook camera. The partnership was formed under the banner of Facebook's AR Studio Beta to launch three exclusive camera effects, called Selfie from the Future, Meitu Family and Instant Glam. Since the first Meitu app was released in 2008, Meitu has registered over 1.1 billion unique downloads and records over 500 million active users. The Chinese tech company is valued at over 5.3 billion dollars.