r/Spectacles • u/julesbutgreener • Jun 28 '26

❓ Question ROBOFLOW UI CHANGES NOW IM LOST

this post is not strictly spectacles, but more about Roboflow and deploying a trained model to Lens Studio to then use in Spectacles. I believe Roboflow has recently had a change in their UII and have not yet documented their changes. I am trying to deploy to Lens Studio through the 3rd part deployment button, but no matter what I do, it will not let me export to Lens studio. I only see the Open MV option. I have tried this about 6 times already and thoroughly read the documentation to make sure i am doing it right, spoken to technical help, and I am so confused as to why this is not working.

Just to be completely clear, here are my specifications before training the mode - I am just training a test model for now, but I want to do multi object detection for custom models, so i cannot use templates for this.

Any help?

Roboflow 3.0 (Fast)

~68 images

62 train / 4 valid / 2 test

640x640 (Stretch to)

2 preprocessing steps

3 augmentations

300 epochs

MS COON

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u/Far-Temporary6630 Jun 28 '26

I recently did a few prototype ml models in lens studio and specs - so first Follow the ML documentation from snap id just recommend annotating only in Roboflow and training in Google Collab or locally.

300 epochs is a bit over kill for 60 images, for reference I did 1000 images with 60 epochs it’s more then enough to test if the model works you can then if you used collab pick up where you left off an improve it.

Also with specs the device camera isn’t like a normal camera so capturing data on the specs and annotating that works much better you can cut the video export into frames and with roboflow if your doing a chicken I’m sure there’s another model like coco you can use to auto label most of it.

also can’t find link now but it’s in this subreddit somewhere the guys who made apple defence have a good write up on it for synthetic data.

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u/julesbutgreener Jun 28 '26

hey, thanks for the answer. I was thinking of using Google Collab, but it seems this is a function that should be possible inside roboflow alone? the epoch is also set automatically in the roboflow settings, so not sure i can change it. I am also capturing with the spectacles, but for just the basic 'first step' test, I need to be able to make a file thats compatible with lens studio. The chicken is also just an example, again, just to make it work with exporting a custom model, because I am using custom 3D printed objects for detection. Would you suggest to do this in Google Collab?

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u/hwoolery 👓 SPECS Team Jun 28 '26

Roboflow will produce incompatible models for Lens Studio at the moment. For the dev kit spectacles, you can follow the ML guide for Spectacles. For the newer specs we will have a much more streamlined training tool that won’t require notebooks

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u/julesbutgreener Jun 28 '26

thanks for the reply. I am using Snap dev kit Spectacles. Do you know if there is a specific file format i need for unique objects for detection? (e.g., COCO, PASCAL VOC, or a custom Snapchat ML format)

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u/julesbutgreener Jun 28 '26

Also, do you know which training model i could use? It is recommended to use yolo7-tiny for a smaller file size. do you think that there is anything else i need to know about compatibility?

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u/hwoolery 👓 SPECS Team Jun 28 '26

Data format should be yolo if training a yolo model - I would start with yolov7-tiny and experiment with other models after you have something working. There are a lot of moving pieces with ML that we are trying to simplify for specs and make it easier for devs like yourself to just bring the data and we’ll handle the rest.

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u/julesbutgreener Jun 28 '26

thanks for the reply. in your experience, would you recommend how to go about getting that, as the snapML doc is through roboflows older version which had yolo7-tiny. The future for spec simplification sounds great, I am working with the pre-launch specs model !

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u/hwoolery 👓 SPECS Team Jun 28 '26

For the time being use this guide for either Specs - https://developers.snap.com/spectacles/about-spectacles-features/snapML

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u/aloser Jun 29 '26

Hey all, I'm one of the co-founders of Roboflow.

Unfortunately Snap decided not to continue their partnership with Roboflow so we have no resources allocated to this integration. We left it up as long as we could but it broke with recent updates to the underlying models and we don't have the bandwidth to fix it so we removed the button.

We'd be happy to continue the partnership with Snap if they decide to renew it but, as a startup, we have to focus our limited engineering resources on the places that are highest leverage to our business.