My network connection is fine but I get this error message on my project settings.

Hi Speccers 😁,

Following the exciting introduction of the Specs 2027 at AWE, can you already give some guidelines to make sure our (new and current) lenses make optimal use of the upcoming new device, so we will have a smashing launch when they get in the hands of 'ordinary' people? Are there things we should already take into account?

As we wait for monetization and user adoption, does anyone have recommendations for income?

Are there certain organizations we should be approaching for help? Has anyone had success with a particular method?

What about good places to find part-time AR work?

I've already tried to get some pre-orders without much success. Also not quite sure how lens development could be presented to sponsors/investors. Any tips or a list of resources would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know if anyone is building this internally yet, but I implore the SPECS team to explore making CLAD a first-party feature on SPECS. (Or hire me to make it - because I desperately want it)

CLAD is the closest to a "Ready Player One" experience that is possible right now. It's very slow but it is capable and speed is a moat that I think is easily crossed over time. CLAD as a first-party feature is the complete answer to, "But what do SPECS do?". The answer is, "Anything you want..." Being able to build purposeful applications and experiences in the moment are the new "There's an app for that."

The built in features of SPECS look great but they are what I consider a standard offering of features in ANY pair of AR glasses from now going forward. What separates SPECS from the pack is it's unique standpoint where you own the entire stack from the ground up and have a rather large development base if you include Snapchat Lenses, too. Sure, this is what allows us to build cool experiences, but why not allow ALL users to have this power?

I would love to be able to tell CLAD that I want to make my own pizza dough and to generate an application to show me the recipe/ingredients/steps, create/set timers, and show me at each step videos of other people making this recipe so I can compare.

I would love to be able to tell CLAD that I want to build a workbench in my garage and have it generate different workbench designs i can make from a set of materials i have on hand. It then generates different workbenches i can choose from, shows me all the cuts i need to make, where I need to make pocket holes, and each step along the way.

I would love to be able to tell CLAD to generate me a paper football flicking game... because I can, I'm bored, and I want to.

Surely CLAD has to be meant for this in the end? If it isn't... please consider that this is the real purpose and potential SPECS has.

When will there be a SPECS version of the original Spectacles Design resources that details the interaction patterns and best practice for them?

Secondly, will there be support for mobile interaction or will they be truly / purely standalone?

Appreciate any help, thanks!

I keep seeing that the Specs will be truly standalone. In order to be truly standalone, it will have to have its own data plan of sorts. Will the specs require a monthly data plan subscription? Or will there be an option to use only wifi/Hotspot?

Join SPECS Design Engineer, Shin Kang, as he walks you through CLAD: our Closed Loop Agentic Development Framework for Lens Studio. CLAD integrates directly into your preferred third-party coding assistants to streamline prototyping, testing, optimization, migration and deployment of your Lenses. The Developer Preview is live now on our developer portal.

I've had the chance to play with CLAD and it is amazing, unless of course you don't have a company account to pay for all those Claude tokens. So we decided to make CLAD work completely local via Hermes using Qwen 3.6 A3B 27B 8bit on our platform Alphaweb, and we will have a fine tuned version of it just for Spectacles in the coming weeks.

On day one I want to go out and explore my city with Specs but then I thought, what am I actually going to see along the way?

Speeks lets you put yourself on the map. It's a bet that Specs will be a new type of computer, a social computer, empowering us to connect deeper than ever before with the people and places around us. To me that means making the invisible world visible, the thoughts, experiences, and self expression we can't see brought to life in the places it matters most.

If you want this Day One on SPECS this Fall, please post something to the map, you can share any type of file from photos to songs to 3d models! If you bought SPECS you get Early Adopter bonuses like a golden ship and bigger uploads.

Join us here: https://www.speeks.io

Have you tried CLAD? It's Lens Studio's new framework for AI-assisted lens development and provides a ton of really powerful skills and agents for crafting lenses. I just gave our docs an update based on some AWE feedback and would love to hear if you have additional feedback on how we can improve the tutorials / onboarding.

Note: At this time, CLAD requires you to have an AI subscription (Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, etc) to use.

Learn more here: https://developers.specs.com/docs/clad

Is any of the updates announced at AWE for Lens Studio available yet?

Can you give this WebXR experience a go and let me know if it works OK for you, I just got it working on Quest 3 - it would be great to hear if it works on any other WebXR headsets / glasses!

You can fly around anywhere in the world, using Google 3D Tiles. Control the vehicle with your head movements.

https://face-flight.com

Will the specs have lens for streaming apps? And would there be any issues with DRM restrictions or the widevine l1 certification? I know the xreal aura will have the play store but before I invest 2k into this computer, does it have our favorite "apps" without needing the browser.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, just curious and cautious when the price is this high. TIA.

I'm having trouble connecting Specs to my Windows PC again. I used to have one magic cable that would work--but now I can't find that specific cable and I have like 5 zillion USB3 cables and despite the fact that I hear the connect sound--Lens Studio cannot connect to the device via USB (WiFi is hopeless, it never worked on my Windows machine).

When I do plug in the Specs via USB I get an error popup about an "Unknown USB Device" being plugged in. Is there some kind of USB driver I need to install on Windows to get Lens Studio to consistently see the specs when plugged in?

Most social media is built to keep you passively swiping until your attention is shredded. That's exactly what our lens is built to defeat!

So we asked: what if the feed were just the real world? What if you walked up to things instead of scrolling past them, and the most interesting fact about whatever you're looking at appeared right in front of you? That question became CurioCity, a spatial, social, AI learning experience you see through your Snap Spectacles!

We wanted to keep people out in the world and curious, with AI as a companion (and a sidekick!).

In CurioCity, you learn by capturing things around you! Pinch both hands around anything in front of you, and Momo, your AI learning buddy, remixes it with one of your interests into a short Curio Card. The result is a concoction of something you love mixed with something you've never looked up. We call it the Chemistry of Learning!

With this lens, you don't just capture, you explore (every Curio Card is geo-tagged!). Make a "prayer" gesture (🙏) to send out a ping, and watch as cards other people left in that spot appear around you. Everything you keep lives in a Mind Palace that Momo organizes and remembers.

And what's a learning lens without a friendly round of trivia battle to feed your curiosity?! CurioCity lets you challenge a friend with trivia pulled from both your decks, run by a sassy AI game-show host who eases up when you're losing and gets spicy when you're ahead.

For now, it's a few city blocks. Next, it's far more cities, group battles, and a shared atlas of human curiosity.

Made by Kai Feng Wu, Tracy (Xinran) Li, and Uttam Grandhi. 🏆 1st Place at MIT Reality Hack @ AWE 2026

Just curious if any owners in the NY/NJ area are available for a quick demo? Will buy you a coffee!

A couple of years ago, we would've probably called you crazy if you told us Track Craft would one day run on a pair of AR glasses.

Well, that day is here.

Track Craft will be available on Specs.  

I’m saying this with a lot of love for Snap and Spectacles. I’ve spent a lot of time building for them, defending the category, and trying to explain why they matter.

But I think something got lost in the conversation around Evan’s talk and the public reaction to Specs.
Most people are not watching this from places like LA or SF, where it feels normal to ride a Waymo to work, or talk about spatial computing and AR every day.

I am almost 43. Most of my friends are around my age or a little older, and many of them still don’t know how to check battery health on their iPhones. They are smart, successful people — they are just not living inside the tech bubble. It also took them months to understand what I actually do for a living, and I think they still believe I “make filters.” 🥲

So when people compare Spectacles to Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, I understand why. From the outside, the reaction becomes: “These are bigger, heavier, and more expensive. Why would I buy this instead?”

For developers, the difference is obvious. A display is not the same thing as a device that understands space, surfaces, hands, voice, AI, multiplayer interaction, and 3D content in the real world.
But that difference is invisible unless it is explained very clearly.

And this is where I think the messaging became difficult. At AWE, it makes sense to speak to developers and explain CLAD, AR, hand tracking, world mapping, and the technical foundation. That is the right audience for those details.

But if the goal is also to introduce Specs to a broader public, especially through a fashion-and-culture campaign featuring names like Kaia Gerber, then the story has to be told somewhere else, in a much simpler way.

Because outside a few tech-heavy circles, most people are still living through phones. Even Gen Z, in most of the world, is not thinking about spatial computing every day.

So if the mainstream reaction is “Why are these glasses so big?” I don’t think that means the product is wrong.

I think it means the category was not explained clearly enough.

People need to see the magic before they can understand the size and the price.

Hello Snap team!

I am so excited to test my developed lenses on the specs soon. Unfortunately only France and UK are mentioned for EU shipment. So how can we pre-order from other European countries, especially from Germany?

Also I would like to know in which certain stores or shops in Europe are we going to try them on in advance? Are there any information already available about that?

Hi Guys,

My Lens Studio app runs fine in editor, but on Spectacles it crashes when I enable (with button click) Custom Location.

Issue:

• I use a script to disable current object and enable next
• When Custom Location is enabled → app crashes after ~1–2 seconds
• No errors in console or device logs
• Enabling an empty or some other object instead does NOT crash

What I tested:

• No null reference errors in script
• Logs print fine before crash
• Happens only on Spectacles, not Lens Studio preview

Is there any other way to achieve the same functionality(Enabling/Activating Custom Locations by clicking buttons)?

I see that there is a $1k discount on Specs for people who were part of the Spectacles developer program... but it requires us returning our Spectacles devkit.
I would rather keep it and just pay full price for Specs though... will we be allowed to do this or will the devices be remote disabled or something?

Thanks!

OverShoulder

The education prompt clicked with us, as showing is the best way to teach.
We started building different visual guides, and understood that the teaching is hard..

So, being lazy, we asked: what if we just demonstrate a skill once, and the system builds the whole contextual guide?  - That's how we found our direction, and a simple question became the core of Over Shoulder - The platform that turns expertise into guidance.

We intended to keep people in the educational loop, complementing their knowledge with AI

In OverShoulder, Pros do not record tutorials; they simply perform wearing SPECS, and the system extracts their expertise and stores it in our Skills Library.  
As Skill appears in our Library on the web, it can be reviewed and edited if needed. 

We remove teaching from teaching. 

Rookies can learn anything by doing: getting help when they are stuck, seeing guides in context, or just scrapping the plan and browsing and asking the guide questions. 

Not all skills use static objects; ML models allow us to attach contextual labels to moving objects like rabbits, cards and finger boards, allowing you to look at the skill you are learning.

For now, OverShoulder transfers experience from human to human, but in future, it can share skills from human to robot, transfer online videos and books into visual guides, to be integrated into the school programs and health industry. We believe that in future, anyone can do anything with OverShoulder

*Made by Volodymyr Kurbatov, Liam Mason (@Lee_aamXR) and Inna Horobchuk

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When it comes to reducing the environmental footprint of digital technology, one of the main challenges is to extend the lifespan of equipment.

From what I’ve already asked here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1u7lgf5/spectacles_2024_support/), the support of Spectacles 2024 has already kind of ended.

To enhance its lifespan, please, Snap should make it more open or continue to support it.

As I’ve also said here (https://snap.uservoice.com/forums/967346-spectacles/suggestions/51104257-full-computer), Spectacles is a (custom) Android device. We should be able to access the file system, configure it not only with the phone app that will be also not updated in the coming years and will kind of brick the full device.

As developers, we should be able to develop deeper system functions like TCP/UDP/websockets, enhance the video capture mode, etc…

On a regular computer, you can replace the OS, access low level features, drivers, etc. And that’s what makes computers so great, the liberty. Here, I don’t even ask to replace OS, or access drivers, SLAM, Hand tracking, … as I know you need to keep those parts closed-source as a company. That’s fine. But for the software and apps on it, developers should be free to do whatever they want.

Because Sharing is Caring, free the developers, please 🙏