India, Feb. 13 -- Snapchat's global chief technology officer (CTO) Bobby Murphy has said that the social media platform's augmented reality (AR) developer community in India has grown by more than 50% in the past two years.

Speaking at the second annual India AR Day in Mumbai, Murphy also said that the country accounted for the highest number of lenses published on Snapchat. For the uninitiated, lenses are AR experiences that appear inside the Snapchat camera.

".. Among all countries, the highest number of lenses published on Snapchat come from India. And the developer community here has grown by more than half, over the last two years. India is an extraordinary country where AR has become a part of daily life," said Murphy.

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