YouCam Apps Rings in 2026: AI-Powered "New Year, New You" Features to Upgrade Your Holiday Social Feed

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 31, 2025--

Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the leading artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) beauty and fashion tech solutions provider, announced the launch of an interactive suite of 2026 New Year content across the YouCam app series, including YouCam Makeup, YouCam Perfect, YouCam AI Pro, YouCam Enhance and YouCam Video. With over 1.1 billion total downloads, the YouCam apps are transforming how users celebrate the holidays, offering new ways to visualize their New Year’s resolutions and create viral-ready social content using the latest Generative AI.

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As users prepare for the countdown, YouCam Apps is unveiling new Gen AI and AR tools designed to elevate New Year’s resolutions, party selfies, and digital greetings.

Manifest Your 2026 Goals with "Astrology Makeup Analysis"

For those looking to start the year with a fresh look, YouCam Makeup Leveraging the advanced AI Beauty Agent. Reimagined for the wellness-conscious generation, this feature introduces a personalized makeup analysis that blends facial feature detection with 2026 astrological trends.

Create Viral "New Year’s Eve" Content with Generative AI

Forget generic stock photos. YouCam Perfect and YouCam AI Pro are upgrading the holiday feed with advanced Text-to-Image capabilities, allowing users to generate one-of-a-kind "2026" visuals that stand out on Instagram and TikTok.

Turn Static Selfies into Dynamic Video Greetings

To capture the energy of New Year’s Eve, the latest update brings static images to life with Video Generation AI, enabling users to animate photos through YouCam Video and further refine visual quality with YouCam Enhance. Together, the tools support a seamless creative workflow, from image restoration to short-form video creation.

"The New Year is the perfect canvas for self-invention," said Alice Chang, Founder and CEO of Perfect Corp. "Our goal is to empower our users to manifest their best selves for 2026. Whether it’s discovering a confidence-boosting look with our AI Beauty Agent or designing a viral-worthy party greeting, we are providing the creative freedom to start the year with bold intention and limitless style."

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About Perfect Corp.

Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF) is a global leader in AI and AR technology, redefining creativity across beauty, fashion, skincare, and digital content creation. Its YouCam suite of apps has been downloaded over 1.1 billion times globally, empowering users to create, edit, and express themselves through photo, video, and generative AI tools. The YouCam platform also includes a powerful web-based editor and a suite of developer APIs, providing creators, brands, and technology partners with seamless access to content creation capabilities across platforms.

For brands and professionals, Perfect Corp. offers an award-winning portfolio of enterprise technologies, including virtual try-on experiences for makeup, hair, jewelry, watches, and fashion accessories, as well as AI-powered skin and hair analysis.

With a brand portfolio that includes YouCam and Skincare Pro, and a network of over 800 global brand partners, Perfect Corp. is transforming the beauty experience through personalized, immersive, and intelligent innovation.

For more information, visit perfectcorp.com and follow @Perfect-Corp.

YouCam Apps Rings in 2026: AI-Powered "New Year, New You" Features to Upgrade Your Holiday Social Feed

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Thieves stole tens of millions of euros' worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into Monday during the holiday lull, police said.

Some 2,700 bank customers were affected by the theft in Gelsenkirchen, police and the Sparkasse bank said. About 3,000 safety deposit boxes, which made up more than 95% of the bank’s inventory, were broken into.

Thomas Nowaczyk, a police spokesperson, said investigators believe the theft was worth between 10 million and 90 million euros ($11.7 million to $105.7 million).

German news agency dpa reported that the theft could be one of Germany's largest.

The bank remained closed Tuesday, when some 200 people showed up demanding to get inside, dpa reported.

Each safety deposit box is insured for 10,300 euros ($12,088) unless a bank customer additionally insures it privately, Sparkasse said on its website.

A fire alarm summoned police officers and firefighters to the bank branch shortly before 4 a.m. Monday. They found a hole in the wall and the vault ransacked. Police believe a large drill was used to break through the vault's basement wall.

Witnesses told investigators they saw several men carrying large bags in a nearby parking garage over the weekend. Video footage from the garage shows masked people inside a stolen vehicle early Monday, police said.

The fire alarm was also triggered Saturday but authorities did not find any damage.

Gelsenkirchen is about 192 kilometers (119 miles) northwest of Frankfurt.

Police officers stand in front of the savings bank branch in the Buer district in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 following a break-in into the bank's vault. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Police officers stand in front of the savings bank branch in the Buer district in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 following a break-in into the bank's vault. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

This picture, provided by the Gelsenkirchen Police on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025 shows a hole in a wall of the savings bank branch in the Buer district in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Police Gelsenkirchen via AP)

Police officers stand in front of the savings bank branch in the Buer district in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 following a break-in into the bank's vault. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)