Snapchat lenses come to Bumble to give your virtual dates some romantic atmosphere

A Venice gondola ride is a pretty bold move for a first date. But on a virtual date? It might be just what the love doctor ordered.

At the Snap Partner Summit Thursday, Snap announced a new partnership with Bumble. The dating app is bringing the Snapchat camera to video calls and video messages, so users can access AR lenses directly in Bumble.

"Whether it's a picnic in Paris or a gondola ride in Venice, we're offering the ability to create this sort of 360-degree background to almost imitate what it's like to be together in real life," Charley Webb, Bumble's chief customer officer, said while speaking with Mashable ahead of Thursday's announcement. "So it sort of takes a video call to that next level."  Read more...