Google’s augmented reality (AR) stickers are a fun, neat trick of the camera app on its Pixel smartphones. You can drop animated characters — sometimes promotional ones like Star Wars stormtroopers or the Stranger Things crew — into the frame your camera is capturing and they look almost convincingly real.

Google has also released other add-on AR sticker packs including some “foodmoji” characters (a burger, donut, coffee cup, etc) and the ability to have 3D text float in AR space. But now the company has removed those two packs from the main AR Stickers app and given them separate Play Store listings, allowing Pixel owners to save a little bit of space on their phones if they have zero interest.

And I do mean a little…

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