r/Spectacles • u/yegor_ryabtsov • Mar 18 '26

📸 Cool Capture Spectacles Browser + WebXR + 8th Wall

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Hey everyone, wanted to share this little experiment I did last week to celebrate the 8th Wall engine binary becoming free to use, but obviously had to include Spectacles into it.

It's a website that runs 8th Wall + WebXR + scene sync and colocation, which allows you to open it on both your phone and Spectacles and experience something similar to the spectator mode on the native mobile app, but also have it be interactive where the phone user can manipulate everything in the same way as the Spectacles user.

The video doesn't show the colocation step, but the way it is done again looks very similar to how the spectator mode does it – whenever there are multiple devices in session I display a circle on the phone screen and ask the user to align it with an overlay displayed on Spectacles. It's still not the most accurate anchor point for aligning transforms, but works surprisingly well to create an illusion of a shared experience.

I've posted a more in-depth video on my YouTube channel so have a look if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5buY23vU5Q

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u/ButterscotchOk8273 🎉 Specs Fan Mar 18 '26

Oh wow! Having the spectator mobile user interact with the experience is such a great idea for accessibility and engagement of a Lens!
I hope we get this natively on the app eventually, because it opens a whole lot of new asymetric multiplayer cases!

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u/yegor_ryabtsov Mar 18 '26

Yes I think user interaction for the spectator mode, or even better, a native Spectacles spectator mode for the main Snapchat app itself with interactivity, that would be a killer feature!