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Snapchat just took emojis to the next level

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Snapchat already makes it easy to add as many emojis as you want over photos and videos. And now, it's giving emojis the ability to interact with the environment you're shooting.

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It's similar to the way Snapchat lenses — those whacky selfie filters — track your face and follow you in frame.

When you add an emoji from the dedicated sticker button at the top right of a snap replay, you can now long press on an object in your video that you want to attach the emoji to. The result looks like this:

Pretty cool, right?

Snapchat says the tech behind this new emoji feature was developed in-house, and it's available on Android now before arriving on the iPhone soon.

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