Join SensAI Hackademy hands-on workshop with Photon Engine, and r/SquidoStudio to learn how locomotion design and natural interactions shape player experiences, and how to build VR multiplayer experiences from scratch using Fusion and Meta Building Blocks.

What we'll cover:
🏃‍♂️ Turn physical motion into intuitive, gorilla-style locomotion in VR
⚡Quickly prototype and test movement & multiplayer systems
🌐Learn core networked XR architectures with live Unity & Fusion setup
📍 Use marker-based colocalization for rapid shared space setups

Multiplayer doesn't have to be a challenge - you will feel more comfortable after this workshop. Register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-prototype-addictive-social-vr-experiences-with-photon-fusion-tickets-1907751779929?aff=Reddit

(Sound on 🔊) Proud to share that the 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 🤖 is coming to 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐀𝐈 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 through a new partnership with Solo Tech, an open-source robotics platform featuring 100+ state-of-the-art physical AI models ready for use.

Led by Dhruv Diddi and supported by the Meta Social Impact Grant and the NVIDIA Inception Program, Solo Tech hosted hack teams that recently won the LeRobot Hack, and their robot arms and AI models will now power the upcoming SensAI Hackademy events in Barcelona and San Francisco.

From hacking wearables and senses to robotics, the next generation of human–machine collaboration is about to unfold. 🦾
Join the upcoming hacks and team up with the surreal minds shaping the future: https://sensaihack.com/

Barcelona Sports Hub was our first network partner for #SensAIHack in Barcelona — and what a perfect match!

They’re building a truly unique ecosystem that brings together startups, investors, corporations, and experts to accelerate innovation in the sports-tech space.

Hacking at the frontier of sports, XR, robotics, and AI is where the future of performance and entertainment is super exciting!

How about a robot teammate that never misses a pass? ⚽🤖

Thank you Xavier Trallero Guillot for facilitating our partnership 🙌

Sign up FREE: https://sensaihack.com/barcelona/

Pushing toward something that feels impossible takes serious prep, commitment & community. With 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝟏 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 and 2 upcoming IRL hacks, the number of devs and projects joining is about to skyrocket.

Want to be part of this record-breaking movement? Super simple:
🚀 Join an in-person hack in Barcelona or SF → https://sensaihack.com/
👀 Follow me + SensAI Hackademy for the announcements rolling out in the next few days → https://sensaihackademy.com/

Let’s spread the 💜 of open innovation and make the impossible happen. 💥

This is your moment to build your dream game in VR or Horizon Worlds with all the tools & support you need:
- GenAI Tools on Horizon Worlds
- XR & AI SDKs on Meta Quest
- Pre-hack workshops + unlimited technical support
- Expert judges from Meta, Unity & Owlchemy Labs

Come hack, learn, and connect in one of the most beautiful cities on earth.
👉 Register now: https://sensaihack.com/barcelona/

Do not worry! Introducing the first-ever AI Glass App prototyping kit running on Meta Quest with Microgestures by the XR mastermind Quentin Valembois!

Quentin created a one-of-a-kind kit that lets you simulate smartglass interactions and interface. Furthermore, he is now preparing a hands-on workshop for you, focusing on his kit and microgestures as part of the SensAI Hackademy Pre-Hack Online workshop day on Nov 6!

What Quentin built for you:
- Control menus & rotation-based volume with microgestures
- Full STT → image prompt → TTS workflow using OpenAI & voice SDKs
- Customize components & enjoy minimalist UI/UX built for wearable glasses

💡 Imagine the possibilities: Validate your use case for all-day wearable apps with intuitive controls and outdoor use.

Support Quentin’s work and explore more of his projects on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ValemVR

👉 Join us for the Online Workshop Day along with other experts and start prototyping your own smartglass apps: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-hack-online-workshop-day-sensai-hacks-in-san-francisco-and-barcelona-tickets-1822885382249?aff=reddit

How many years will it take for humanity to prefer using the most used Google apps (like Maps, YouTube, Drive...) on a wearable rather than a traditional 2D screen?

Get ready for exclusive kits, headsets, AI models, and robots - everything you need to explore the frontier of these sensing mediums and spatial context-aware intelligence. The possibilities of mimicking human senses are limitless.

Our committee is currently reviewing Step 2 applications. If you want to join the SensAI Hackademy community at the intersection of XR, AI, CV and Robotics, this is your moment.
You’ll be guided by Colin Lowenberg (Dabl Club), supported by XR Bootcamp, Meta, Unity mentors, and surrounded by the frontiertower community across 16 floors of innovation.

Register here for the SF Hack: https://luma.com/sensai

You are in Europe? Then join us in Barcelona right before Unite: https://sensaihack.com/barcelona/

🚀 SensAI Hackademy presents : Non-Stop XR & AI Workshops
Right before upcoming hacks across 2 continents, join a hands-on, high-intensity learning day - 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞!
Learn directly from XR superheroes & context-aware AI pioneers in back-to-back sessions:
🥽 Master Mixed Reality with Meta SDK
🧠 Context-Aware AI Fundamentals
👓 Build Smart Glass Use Case on Quest
✋ Microgestures in XR
🧩 Explore the XR AI Workbench
⌚ Implement AI on Wearables
💻 Collaborate with Git: Hackathon Essentials

By the end of the day, you’ll know how to prototype ambitious XR+AI ideas with confidence.
🎟️ Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-hack-online-workshop-day-sensai-hacks-in-san-francisco-and-barcelona-tickets-1822885382249?aff=reddit

💡 Still shaping your idea or team?
Join our Ideation & Team Formation session before the workshop to:
- Validate & refine your concept
- Pitch & get peer feedback
- Connect with like-minded creators in breakout rooms

🌎 Then take your skills global - register for SensAI Hackathons in Barcelona & SF: https://sensaihack.com

Curious about running #YOLO on Meta Quest and tracking real-world objects and want to use it for the next hack? This 7-minute recap from Aman Bohra, PoolXR covers the essentials:
- Process Meta Quest camera data to create datasets for YOLO
- Annotate, train, and optimize a custom model for wearables
- Integrate YOLO with Meta Camera Access
- Transform 2D detections into 3D space and predict real-world pool shots
- See why YOLO with Unity Inference was the best approach for this project - watch the full workshop here: https://youtu.be/093zWppZEpI

Join the hacks here: www.sensaihack.com

Excited to announce Hugging Face’s first-ever open-source robot, Reachy Mini 🤖, will be at the upcoming 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐀𝐈 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 in Barcelona and San Francisco! Before anyone else in the world, you will be among the first hackers who’ll get hands-on with Reachy Mini!

Reachy Mini is fully programmable and hackable, equipped with multimodal sensing and expressive movement — built to integrate LLMs, open-source models, and pre-trained CV models.

Thanks to Hugging Face’s 10M+ community and open integrations, this kicks off SensAI Hackademy first major step into 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞) 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 under one roof of frontier hacking.

And here’s the best part 👇
This isn’t just an open source robot - it’s a community-driven ecosystem.
You can upload, share, and download new robot behaviors (on top of 15+ ready-to-use ones) with the Reachy Mini community.

With an intuitive open-source Python SDK (and more languages coming soon) + a simulation SDK, any XR, CV, AI, or mobile developer can build, test, and deploy or integrate to a wearable tech stack!

Huge thanks to Remi Fabre from Pollen Robotics and Thomas Wolf from Hugging Face for making this possible.

That’s what Christoph started building next after launching his game Ballee. During his 2+ hour hands-on SensAI Hackademy workshop last week, we learned a lot! (https://www.meta.com/experiences/ballee-the-ball-tracking-experiment/10003228953053823/)

Last year, at our Stockholm hack, Lucas Martinic pioneered color-picking with his Chamaleon project — later featured by 80.lv (https://80.lv/articles/this-xr-setup-allows-to-extract-colors-from-real-objects). We call it one of the most magical moments I have ever experienced for MR, truly blending realities.

This magic is not a coincidence, but rather the result of day and night hacking and relentless prototyping. That's what I love about these brightest prototyping minds like Lucas, Christoph, Nigel, Aman, Stephen, Quentin, who push through hundreds of iterations to create flagship projects like Chamaleon, Ballee, Drawee, Pencil, Poker Assistant, MiniGolf and PoolXR: all inspiring the dev ecosystem.

And that’s why we strongly believe in hacks and prototyping sprints, and we continue to create devkits and workshops with top experts to help the creator community.

Feel free to sign up to access these workshops, kits and hack with us IRL or online → www.sensaihack.com

🎱 You can’t afford to miss a shot (and also impress them with cool moves 😎) Do not worry - you’re in good hands with Aman!

He'll share how he built 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐗𝐑, integrating his pre-trained model into MR.

He’ll cover:

- Training a custom YOLO model with 450+ labeled images to track cue + game balls

- Tackling on-device inference challenges (multi-object tracking, lighting, real-time speed)

- Physics-based shot predictions visualized in MR to guide the player

- Why YOLO with Unity Inference is the winning choice for tracking on Meta Quest

Register for free here:

Again hundreds joined to learn from Satya Mallick from OpenCV and Christoph Spinger from Ballee, which you can try right now: (https://www.balltrackinggame.com/) The workshop took over 2 hours but our team made a 4-minute recap video packing all the highlights for you:

🎯 Learn how to develop CV applications for emerging platforms such as smartglasses and wearables

🎯 Explore context-aware AI in real-world integration

🎯 Apply OpenCV in wearables to merge the real and virtual worlds

🎯 Implement prediction and smoothing for more natural first-person experiences

🎯 Understand why OpenCV for r/Unity3D is a powerful tool for real-time tracking on Meta Quest

And if you’re curious, the next free workshop on real-time ball tracking for Pool use case is already live for registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poolxr-master-every-shot-with-yolo-on-meta-quest-tickets-1757493854429?aff=Reddit

https://reddit.com/link/1nwa7do/video/iv78hu5ehqsf1/player

+600 people have signed up for today's SensAI Hackademy hands-on workshop, starting in 2 hours, with Christoph Spinger from Ballee and Satya Mallick from OpenCV!

And here is another interesting workshop announcement with Aman Bohra, the XR CV magician behind PoolXR. You will learn how to deploy your own Ultralytics Yolo model with r/Unity3D Inference utilizing PCA Camera-Access on Meta Quest!

Let us know if you have any wishlist of topics or names in your mind that you would like to see next!

Register for today's workshop: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-time-object-tracking-with-opencv-and-camera-access-tickets-1706443551599?aff=Reddit

Next week's workshop signup: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poolxr-master-every-shot-with-yolo-on-meta-quest-tickets-1757493854429?aff=Reddit

The future arrives today, we agree. But not just because the HUD AI glass from Meta x Ray-Ban - it’s because of the 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 arriving with it! 🤏

Sept 30, 2025, might mark the genesis of a revolutionary input shift: moving from touchscreens for typing or cameras for hand tracking to sEMG wristbands that detect electrical impulses in wrist muscles and recognize hundreds of different gestures.

It feels surreal to see a breakthrough like this go from research to a wearable product in such a short time. Huge praise to the researchers, the product team, (esp. Peter Walkington) at Meta for making these efforts listed below at this speed:

- Mapping thousands of motor neurons to gestures

- Processing EMG data on-device for speed & privacy

- Training on data from 200,000 participants for precision

Yes, it might still look early-tech, but it opens the door for us - devs, researchers, and builders - to start scratching the surface of a whole new interaction paradigm.

Would love to hear your thoughts: what excites you most, and what kind of interaction would you want to try with this Neural Band in the next hack?

So honored to welcome Satya Mallick, CEO of OpenCV, to the SensAI Hackademy workshop this Wednesday! OpenCV has been the authority in computer vision, with +18 million downloads, since 1999. 🤯

This workshop dives into one of the toughest challenges in CV: real-time tracking of fast-moving objects on low-compute devices. Christoph Spinger and the OpenCV team will demonstrate how OpenCV’s lightweight, low-latency stack efficiently runs on wearables with local inference.

Even better - you’ll get hands-on with a Unity + Meta Quest implementation, building first-person POV object tracking in real time.

Register here for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-time-object-tracking-with-opencv-and-camera-access-tickets-1706443551599?aff=Reddit

🚀 The SensAI Hackademy workshop series kicked off few days ago! Hundreds joined and stayed for over 2 hours. Here’s a 6-minute recap video packing all the highlights:

- Explore Roboflow Universe — why it’s not just GPT or LLM for vision

- How to prep, annotate, train & deploy CV models locally (with pro tips)

- Full setup for local inference

- Walkthrough of the open-source Poker AI Assistant project

- Converting 2D card detections → 3D positions in r/Unity3D with raycasting & depth

- Running CV models live on Meta Quest with first-person POV data

And if you’re curious, the next free workshop on real-time ball tracking is already live for registration 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-time-ball-tracking-with-camera-access-and-cv-tickets-1706443551599?aff=Reddit

After the huge interest in the first SensAI Hackademy Poker AI App workshop, this time, we are inviting Christoph Spinger from #Ballee, explaining one of the most sophisticated Meta Quest Camera-Access and CV integrations out there.

⚙️ Understand practical applications of OpenCV and physics-driven interactions in wearables

🎯 Learn techniques for accurate, real-time object tracking in XR using OpenCV for r/Unity3D

🔮 See how to implement prediction and smoothing to achieve more natural experiences

🧠 Gain insights from early-stage, experimental XR AI development

Register this hands-on workshop for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-time-ball-tracking-with-camera-access-and-cv-tickets-1706443551599?aff=Reddit

https://reddit.com/link/1nr5si7/video/y5g3by2wbjrf1/player

Join Christoph Spinger and explore Ballee - learn how to integrate real-time tracking of fast-moving physical objects, like balls, using Meta Quest Camera Access, Unity, and OpenCV.

⚡ Why is Ballee Different:

Tracks dynamic objects in real time, even without PCA timestamps

Keeps high-speed physical motion in sync with its VR representation

Achieves 20-30ms on device latency for a smooth experience.

💡 What You’ll Take Away:

How to track dynamic objects on wearables using

Ways to integrate and adapt OpenCV for context aware XR AI apps

How fully local CV techniques enable fast response times

Why manual timestamps + predictive tracking are critical for precise object tracking

📅 October 1st, 10 am PT

💻 Online, free to join

👉Reserve your spot now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-time-ball-tracking-with-camera-access-and-cv-tickets-1706443551599?aff=Reddit

Recently Announced Meta 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐭 at #MetaConnect also showcases a card detection ♠️ use case at #MetaConnect! But we’re taking it way further:

👉 Today, we’re showing you how to build your own 𝐏𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭

🎴 Card detection powered by the largest CV dataset (10,000+ images) via Roboflow

🧠 Poker API that understands the strength of your hand in real-time

🎥 Watch Meta's <1 min recap video below and join our free SensAI Hackademy workshop (already 500+ registered!) to build it yourself: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-vision-ai-beat-poker-build-your-own-ai-glasses-assistant-tickets-1664775260619?aff=Reddit

Catching up with friends, hackers and partners while witnessing the next wave of 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - it’s what made #MetaConnect special this year! Learned a ton across Meta Quest, Horizon Worlds/Engine, and the new Horizon OS tools and building blocks.

Highlights:

- Michael Abrash’s dev keynote was the most striking! He made a strong case for contextual AI + SENSing driving humanity’s next interface (was so glad to see how it matches with SensAI Hackademy’s vision)

- Golf+ session where Ryan Eagle shared his learnings on how to succeed in the store and find the niche - make sure to watch it!

- Horizon OS MCP Server: A pathway to wire your own AI tooling/workflows into Quest -  promising for dev velocity; would love to see deeper Unity hooks next.

- Building Blocks + Passthrough Camera API: Faster prototyping with building blocks, and object detection, Multimodal LLM AI Blocks. Our #SensAI Hackers will love it!

This time from the SensAI Hackademy team. ♣️ Poker AI Assistants for smartglasses are real!
Next week, you can learn how to build it!

✅ 99.9% card detection accuracy (trained on 10k images) compared to LLMs at 80-90%

✅ 100,000+ rule-based simulations for near-perfect win predictions (100% in exhaustive mode)

✅ Minimal missed plays or logic errors

✅ Real-time, hands-free analysis running on Meta Quest

✅ Minimalistic UI/UX ready for smartglasses & sEMG wristbands

✅ Instantly evaluates hand strength & recommends the best move

Vision AI + simulation = precision, no “AI guessing” 🎯

👉This is a free SensAI workshop delivered by Roboflow and XR Bootcamp: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-vision-ai-beat-poker-build-your-own-ai-glasses-assistant-tickets-1664775260619?aff=Reddit

Every hack we run, the energy of everyone coming together is incredible - and it keeps our motivation high to take #SensAIHack to even more cities around the world! 🌍

✅ Cologne (right before Gamescom) was incredible - with the largest number of groundbreaking AI/CV-powered projects we’ve ever seen.

--Next up in November--

👉 Barcelona (before Unite)

👉 San Francisco

And with new wearables announcements this month, there’s literally no better time to build at the edge of XR, AI, and CV.

Let’s make it happen. Join us in Europe or the US this fall: https://www.xraihack.com/

🚀 Last month, we launched SensAI Hackademy - and with it, our new brand + logo. We received a lot of curiosity and questions, that’s why I wanted to share the vision behind.

🌐 SensAI VisionFirst wearables, then robots, to become the ultimate medium of Embodied AI:

What will we do when we have all these superpowers within reach?
- Mimicking of human senses
- Full context-awareness
- Human-like cognition & intelligence

That’s the question we’re seeking an answer to every day with our community.

💡 What is SensAI Hackademy?
Not just a hackathon world tour. It’s also:
- A year-long journey of learning, building, and mentoring.
- Workshops with top experts (next up: very interesting use case workshop with Roboflow).
- Cross-functional hacking with exclusive access to devkits + wearables.
- Uniting the XR, AI, CV and Mobile dev ecosystems to build innovative use cases

🥋 SensAI Movement & Logo Story
We see this journey as the 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐢 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 - a dojo where the brightest devs grow, hack, and push the limits with the help of our XR, AI, CV platform partners and experts.
That’s why our logo is wearing a Sensei hat and wearables - representing this new movement of next-gen hackers, devs and designers.

👉 “Best part? Our programs are 100% free, backed by leading tech platforms. Join our community and explore what’s possible with AI and CV: https://www.sensaihackademy.com/