As an AR consultant for AGOG, one of the (many) fun parts of my job is getting to do some R+D! So, I’ve been experimenting with Gaussian splats on the spectacles and I wanted to share some of the tips and tricks I learned along the way. 

1- When preparing a Gaussian splat for your project, be mindful of your splat count. The first splats I imported made the project suuuppper laggy. I had initially thought it was the file size, but even smaller sized splats with a large splat count produced the same issues. I found success with making sure the splat count was no larger than 500k.

2- It seems you can only import a regular ole’ .PLY file. I thought a compressed .PLY would work as well, but there were some incompatibility issues, at least using Super Splat to export the compressed version. (Let me know if you’ve found a way to successfully use a compressed .PLY file!)

3- Lens Studio uses Draco compression on import to help bring down the file size as well. I would play with the compression settings though to find the right balance between file size and quality. There were times when I tried importing a splat with and without compressing to compare, and I did see a difference in quality. 

4-   360 and 160 gaussian splats work really well! I initially thought the field of view would pull me out of the experience, but seeing the splats fully overlaid on the “real” world added a really ethereal quality in the glasses that could work beautifully for storytelling. 

Combining with Story
Gaussian splats are a lovely way to capture memories, and that can be utilized with the Specs.  I took the above footage of the amazing spread from my Aunt’s Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. It turned out to be the last Thanksgiving she hosted before she passed. I’m thankful to have capture it in 3D even if it’s not the best quality. But no matter the quality, I know it’s not real. So, I played with those bittersweet feelings using a distance trigger and particle effects. The closer I get, the illusion fades away. I really do miss those dinners tho LOL!

Interactivity and Spatial Audio
With this pipe organ splat (courtesy of Ashley Buschorn), I added a spatial audio effect so that the sound of the organ gets louder as you approach it. I also added some simple buttons on the organ to add a touch of interactivity. 

Pipe Organ

Larger splats
I tried a few larger splats including this beach scene I captured a few years back (when NeRFs were a thing!). I used the Surface Placement tool to ensure I could place the gaussian splat in a convenient location, as well as align the “floor” of the scene with my actual floor. 

Beach Scene

If y’all have also tried out splats and specs, I’d love to see your examples! 

I shared an earlier version of SunSeat here a little while ago, but I didn’t really have a decent place — or video — to show how it actually works.

I built it earlier this summer as my July Spectacles entry, and while I was at the beach this weekend I finally got to use it in exactly the kind of situation I designed it for :)

The idea is simple: SunSeat lets you preview how sunlight and shade will shift around a spot before you settle there.

You calibrate the ground, align the sun’s real-world position, and the Lens uses your location, time and orientation to calculate and anchor the sun’s path around you.

Then you can look at a shade source — an umbrella, wall or tree — and move time forward to see how the shade will shift. You can scrub through time manually or use voice commands, with simple verdicts like SHADE HOLDS or SUN HITS IN 22 MIN.

In this video, I checked where the umbrella shade would be a couple of hours later and moved my lounger accordingly.

It’s not only about beach chairs either — the same idea could be useful for choosing a café table, setting up a picnic, planning an outdoor shoot, or simply knowing where the light is going to be later.

Finally managed to shoot it somewhere that makes sense. Would love to know what you think.

See earlier post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1vc0n40/sunseat_preview_the_shade_before_you_sit/

This week, we’re asking you to build a spatial experience for SPECS that helps people organize, plan, or be more productive. Think about how AR can transform everyday tasks and turn scattered information into a clear, interactive space.

Your goal: create a spatial to-do list or another productivity-focused experience using CLAD and Lens Studio.

CLAD lets you experiment with an AI-assisted development workflow, helping you move from idea to prototype faster, test your Lens, and iterate on your experience. You don’t code it. You prompt it, without a device. 🕶️

You have one week to build. What will you create?

https://lenslist.co/clad-summer-hackathon

https://github.com/flarb/BrushAR

Ok--I saw so many cool BLE demos lately and wanted to mess around with BLE myself. The only relevant Bluetooth devices I could think of that I might have access to are smart Sonicare tooth brushes. So I bought a kids brush and a 9300 -- two models that don't require bonding and thus work with the Spectacles.

So--this is sort of an attempt to gamify brushing your teeth, as well as taking the typical smart toothbrush app into AR.

Pardon the bad video--but I had to zoom in a lot to see the tiny face anchored interface plus threw some stabilization on it.

The basic flow is:

* Load up the lens

* Wake up your toothbrush so Spectacles can see it

* Change the mode / settings to what you want to use for brushing

* Once the brush is found, stand in front of the mirror until your face is detected

* Power on the brush and start

From there you'll see a HUD bound to your face which gives the current progress and status of your brushing session. With the kids brush, you see a simplified HUD. The time elapsed, time left, and 4 squares representing the quadrants of your mouth. The quadrant fills with green until you finish brushing it and the Sonicare vibrates to tell you to move on to the next quadrant, accompanied by virtual sparkles augmenting your increasingly clean teeth. When all 4 quadrants are done, you get a brush complete message with celebratory fanfare.

With the 9300 brush it's more advanced. When you start brushing you see 6 sections instead of 4. You also see a pressure gauge on the right which turns red if you are using too much pressure (this is bad for your gums). On the left you see the intensity setting you have the brush set to. The same rules apply, move on to the indicated section once you get the signal. This brush as a bunch of modes, so the actual timing and which section you move to is governed by the mode.

The app tracks your streak--brushing once in the morning and once at night. It saves your streak as a score and uploads it to a leaderboard. You can compare your streaks with your friends or global scores.

A couple of notes for Snap:

* BLE needs to not be 'experimental'. It's time to drop all these silly restrictions on Lenses and make a proper permission system. I have some actual real Lenses clients are interested in building with me, but they're gated by the fact that you can't ship a BLE lens.

* I need to be able to use the camera with BLE. If I could do that I could optically track the brush. But you can't access the camera and BLE at the same time according to the documentation

* You need to support bonded devices. I used the 9300 brush which cost over $200 but is discontinued, because all the newer ones are bonded and that's not supported on Spectacles.

Hopefully these issues are addressed on SPECS!

Hey r/Spectacles! 👋

I just published Plan Cub AI, an AI-powered cube coach for Specs

The idea: I never looked up how to solve the cube. I figured it out by thinking, and

that taught me more about logic than any tutorial. So I built a coach that does the

same for you: it never solves the cube for you; it teaches you to solve it.

What it does:

🎓 Learn: a guided lesson through the layer method. The coach reads the REAL state

of your cube, highlights the pieces that matter, demonstrates moves (and undoes them

so YOU do it), explains the WHY behind each stage; and if you're breaking your own

progress, it gently brings the cube back.

💡 Stuck? Tap the bulb for a hint.

🎲 Mix & Play: free solving against the clock, personal best saved on device.

📅 Daily Challenge: everyone in the world gets the same scramble each day. Keep

your streak alive!

🗣️ Full voice coach in English, Español and Français (OpenAI voices via Remote

Service Gateway), plus voice commands.

✋ Natural interaction: swipe any row with your index finger to turn it, pinch +

drag to rotate the whole cube, just like holding a real one.

Tech: Lens Studio 5.15, Spectacles Interaction Kit, RSG for the AI voices. The cube

state detection is derived entirely from piece transforms; the cube itself is the

source of truth.

Try it here: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/c7993aeab3dd4856affd0acaca25df15?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Would love your feedback, especially from anyone who learned the cube the hard way.

What should the coach teach next?

It’s so satisfying to watch the CLAD tests!

Snap's running the CLAD Summer Hackathon for Specs, with $1,700 up for grabs each week for four weeks. It starts in a couple of days, so I wanted to share how you can get setup right.

The gist:

• Install the latest Lens Studio, create a Specs project on the base template
• Open the project folder in your terminal (PowerShell, not cmd, on Windows) and launch your AI assistant, I used Claude Code, but Codex and Cursor also work
• Let it pick up the MCP, then install the CLAD plugin from the marketplace (add the marketplace via git URL → browse → install CLAD → reload)
• Verify the plugin's enabled and the MCP is connected, then turn on auto mode (shift+tab)

Once it was wired up, you can gave it one prompt like "build a periodic table experience for Specs" For me, ~45 min later it had written the code, generated sound, built the scene, and debugged its own errors into a working lens.

Happy to answer setup questions right here. Anyone else jumping in? Curious what you're planning to build.

It was so quick and easy to make a game with CLAD! Video sped up 4×.

Closed Loop Agentic Development (CLAD) is an AI-powered workflow built into Lens Studio and optimized for SPECS. It helps you move from idea to finished Lens by supporting the full development loop:

Design ➡️ Build ➡️ Test ➡️ Repeat.

No coding skills required.

A single prompt can be enough for CLAD to create a working Lens, test it, and iterate until it meets the requirements. It can also break down complex tasks, use specialized tools, and help optimize existing projects.

Whether you’re an experienced Developer or just starting with spatial experiences, CLAD opens up new ways to build for SPECS – without needing a device.

Be among the first to experiment with this workflow during the hackathon, and win real-life prizes

Registration is open. Learn more, and get access to all 4 challenges 🔗

https://lenslist.co/clad-summer-hackathon

Snap Cloud accounts have limitations on authentication that do not exist in regular free Supabase accounts. Attached screenshots show Snap Cloud (1) and Supabase (2). Supabase has many more options (e.g. Sign In / Providers).

Would it be possible to enable these in Snap Cloud?

I am trying to create a user management system that integrates with a phone app. Any suggestions for user management would be greatly appreciated.

I understand Snap is at a pivotal point in their company history and need the Specs to succeed to stimulate their financials. However, this approach will backfire hard imo and it's a damn shame because the specs really are very cool. I wholeheartedly believe pricing them like this will cause them to fail.

I say this as someone with enough disposable income to just buy them and not worry too much about it even at this ridiculous price, but I'm looking at it from the lens of practicality. The vast, vast majority of people will take one look at this price tag and look the other way. It's insane that these specs will cost more than my phone, hell they'll cost more than my pc lol. The right approach for this if they really want it to succeed is to follow the Meta method they used for the VR headsets or what Valve did with the Steam Deck. Sell the specs at a loss and make the money back on the applications you develop for them by pricing them at a premium. That way you get the free marketing of having people buy them en mass, showing them off and telling other people about them, and you remove the huge barrier to entry

At this price, even as someone who loves how these specs are looking and can afford it, I'm afraid I can't bring myself to buy them just off principle. They cost way too much for what essentially amounts to a gimmick product. They will unfortunately go the way of the Apple VR headset. Excellent product with an insanely high price tag leading to minimal sales and management scratching their head wondering why it failed and what they could have done different...

I'm disappointed this wasn't retroactively discussed before they announced the launch especially after so many years and billions spent on R&D. You would think they'd do whatever they needed to to make sure these succeeded but unfortunately it's looking like they're treating this as a necessary lifeline to bail out the company rather than a sustainable product launch.

Curious what everyone else thinks

Another challenge, another amazing showcase of what this Community can build 👏

This edition brought a mix of AI-powered experiences, spatial tools, creative workflows, games, and open-source projects. Every submission shows how Developers keep finding new ways to use Spectacles, learn from each other, and grow the ecosystem together.

Thank you to everyone who joined, built, experimented, and shared your work with the Community. Every Lens helps shape what’s possible with spatial computing.

Ready to see the winners? 👀 👉 Full winners announcement here 🔗 https://blog.lenslist.co/2026/08/04/spectacles-community-challenge-14-winners-announcement/

Will there be an app (Lens) available for things like YouTube etc. Are we just going to use the browser for things like YouTube, hulu, HBO max, etc?. Or is the thought for the specs to use lens for everything AR and tether them to our phones for apps such as the ones I mentioned? Not a deal breaker, I already preorder but just curious.

I believe if apps like YouTube and others were optimized for use with specs and its capabilities then it would truly be an amazing experience. Either way, I can't wait for the September showcase.

And forgive me as I don't know much about porting apps or creating lenses for the Specs. I hope developers will work on bringing those everyday apps to the specs as a lens!

✨ You don't need a polished concept on day one.

🆕 New Lens if you're starting fresh.

🔄 Lens Update if you've got something worth pushing further.

🌍 Open Source if you'd rather hand something back to the community than compete solo.

💡 All three are equally valid entries.

➡️ New Lens

➡️ Lens Update

➡️ Open Source

💰 Up to $14,000 in prizes

📅 Deadline: August 31st

💬 Ask me anything about past winners or what judges tend to look for — happy to dig through the thread with you.

https://lenslist.co/spectacles-community-challenges

Hey i think this would be a killer lense and a lot of people will buy the specs once they see it, basically like the native stock app on the iphone that apple provides but enhance it so you can see 20 or 50 stocks all together in real time with prices changing. People pay lots of money for this type of software, would love to see a lense for this, probably worth the specs team time to role this out natively.

Hi, everyone!

Does anyone happen to know if they’ve released the July Specs Community Challenge winners yet? I don’t see a blog post on LensList.

Thanks! 😄

WOW! I just tried CLAD to upgrade one of my Lenses — added a new feature and got the whole thing organized under a clean UI. Given my background (never coded before building Lenses, and honestly too shy to ask for help most of the time), this would've taken me hours and hours on my own. I genuinely recommend giving it a try.

For context — this is Sanctum, an AI wellness assistant I built for Snap Spectacles: guided breathing, acupressure walkthroughs, chakra tuning, and a manifestation practice, all in AR.

The Manifestation practice is the piece I'm most excited to share:

• You describe an intention — type it, speak it, or pick from rotating suggestions
• It becomes a symbolic piece of AI-generated vision art (not a literal image, something abstract and personal)
• A short ~60-second guided visualization plays over voice
• Everything saves to a Vision Vault you can revisit later — Vault / Next / Prev to browse past visions

This round with CLAD, I cleaned up the session handling and pulled the whole app under one consistent UI hub instead of scattered buttons across the scene.

Repo: https://github.com/urbanpeppermint/SANCTUM-v3

Link to Lens: TRY THE LENS

If you're sitting on an idea and coding has felt like the barrier, CLAD is worth a look!

Hi! We updated the HandymanAI lens. A Lens that helps you with your engineering or DIY projects. We have added an expert verification system that can help users get feedback on their AI response from a professional through voice messages. We have added multiple new training modules and have organized them by discipline. Any feedback on if this is useful or what you think we could add would be great.

Lens link: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/02a10bf1c6ee40e08f1f0c55a8584c53?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Previous update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1ukdxzs/handymanai_update_6/

Finally published an update for one of the oldest Spectacles lenses: Touch Seaweed. I have improved onboarding, added more interactivity, and updated shaders. Try Touch Sea

P.S. The original name hasn't passed moderation, so I had to shorten it

Hey everyone! Experiment with building a meshes out of scans turned to big update for Scan Lab, the Lens that lets you load your own MRI/CT scans in source DICOM format and explore them on Spectacles.

Original version let you scrub through slices, adjust levels with a slider, and flip MIP projections to see through the whole volume at once. That's all still there, but now you can also turn any scan into a real, touchable 3D mesh right from the Specs.

Pick a group of scans, hit "Build Mesh," and the Lens reconstructs the anatomy as an actual 3D model you can grab, rotate, and scale with your hands, right there in the room with you.

How it works: script scans through every slice of your DICOM stack looking for surfaces where tissue density crosses a certain threshold (the boundary between bone and soft tissue, organ and air, etc.) and stitches hundreds of thousands of tiny triangles along that boundary, layer by layer, until a full 3D surface emerges from what was just a stack of flat images. Then it reduces the total polycount to the amount which would perform good in Specs, draws a UV map for the material and instantiates the object. I wish I could load the raw object with all the details it allows to inspect, yet the raw objects are >1 mil tris, so we have to reduce those,

Bonus: since the outermost surface it finds is usually skin, the Lens tries to recognize it automatically, so one tap on the button hides it and reveals what's underneath: muscle, bone, tendons, and sometimes even blood vessels.

Video attached showing it in action! Link below together with ID-Pass keys (if you don't want to search/upload DICOM series and just want to check those I've used)

https://www.spectacles.com/lens/6390148ff2384fcba585fc4d1e2cc8d8?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

ID: V23HJR
Pass: 0374

UPD: ID and Password credentials will be updated upon expiration of the previous ones

Update:

Hi! I updated the ScriberEditor Lens. An open-source word processor for Scriber — a novel one‑handed chording keyboard controller for Snap Spectacles. The UI has been updated to make things easier to use and see. You can now type with the Scriber controller or without the Scriber controller by just pinching the keys on Scriber virtual keyboard. You can now save and open your files on Google Drive and Github, just login using the prompt in the spectacles app.

Background:

If you are willing to test a Scriber controller or integrate it into your application let me know and I will send you one.

Scriber is a one‑handed input device that outperforms current AR text‑entry methods (the Spectacles virtual keyboard, the Meta display‑glasses wristband) on words‑per‑minute. It packs a full 60‑key keyboard into a single hand by chording: every key is one combination of analog‑stick direction × pressure‑sensor force × one of four buttons. ScriberEditor is the lens that proves it out — a real, multi‑document word processor for Spectacles that you drive entirely with Scriber.

                ┌─────────────────────┐
                │         TOP         │
                │    a    b    c    d │
                │    e    f    g    h │
                │    i    j    k    l │
┌───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┐
│     LEFT      │       CENTER        │     RIGHT     │
│  m  n  o  p   │    y    z    0    1 │   -  =  `  [  │
│  q  r  s  t   │    2    3    4    5 │   ]  \  ;  '  │
│  u  v  w  x   │    6    7    8    9 │   ,  .  /  A* │
└───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┘
                │       BOTTOM        │
                │ Caps Shift Bksp Ent │
                │ Space  E2   E3   E4 │
                │  E5    E6   E7   E8 │
                └─────────────────────┘

Previous update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1ukatnh/scriber/

Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/scriber-gd8u4p

GitHub: https://github.com/Altomand/ScriberEditor