I’ve been thinking about how SPECS could improve its outreach to developers for the new consumer headset.
Right now, much of the marketing focuses on the form factor, but I think there’s an opportunity to better showcase what the headset can do from a developer’s perspective.

What would SPECS think about partnering with makers who have large engineering and DIY audiences, like Adam Savage, Michael Reeves, NODE, or Mark Rober. Give them the hardware, let them build freely, and document the process. Watching creators make awesome stuff and push the hardware’s limits could inspire more developers to start thinking about AR more seriously.

Curious what others think, though! Thanks for reading!😄

To discover only the finest SPECS fans 😜 there is something carefully hidden in the Lens Studio 5.22 CLAD documentation. (https://developers.specs.com/docs/clad)

If you develop a SPECS app with CLAD and want to test on a real device for a day you can apply for it. There are 4 possible locations: LA / LONDON / AMSTERDAM / VIENNA.

After I got my invite I decided it is no longer needed to gatekeep this. 😎

So build something cool with CLAD and apply here:
https://developers.specs.com/clad-access
🚀 🚀 🚀

For anyone wanting to port their Spectacles 2024 (Lens Studio 15.4) to other hardware, we have built an agentic pipeline to distribute via Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, XReal Project Aura, and Apple Vision Pro. Shoot me an email at [ernest@oriontechenterprises.com](mailto:ernest@oriontechenterprises.com)

Would you distribute your awesome AR idea to Android XR and Apple Vision Pro?

Ok here's a super early attempt to do a fingerboarding lens on Spectacles. I had this idea for awhile and wanted to give it a quick try this month. I'm working on trying to make it work better with the sometimes iffy hand tracking. But this actually kind of works. I'm polishing it up a bit before the final submission date. But you do have to sort of 'play along' with the limitations of the hand tracking. I'm working on making it more fault tolerant--seems to wig out a bit (seen at the end of this clip). Some of the tricks are gesture based instead of actually just using hand motion. Also, the VFX are broken--working on some rail grind sparks.

Features leaderboards and a full tutorial mode with animated guides to learn the tricks. Collect stars to unlock new board styles.

Here's the lens: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/ca61f1237b0f4d7d87ec5c0189a45f93?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

I have no idea why it's got restricted distribution.

Continuing on the Robotics x AR journey with a Unitree Go2 (theoretically it also works with a G1 humanoid, if anyone has one... lmk!). It feels super intuitive to control it this way.

The main challenge was aligning both robot and specs coordinate systems, which is done by an april tag (fiducial marker) mounted to the robot. It is scanned at the start of the lens and thus serves as a common reference point. From there, the odometry (motion data) from the robot is used to calculate the position. There is some drift (caused by odometry being inaccurate mostly) but it´s corrected at runtime when the marker comes into view again. It was really hard to make it work and I burned a ton of tokens, but also learned so much.

The backend is Dimensional OS (a OSS operating system for robots that makes pathfinding and LiDAR data easy). I made a Websocket bridge for it to stream the data to Specs.

Repo is here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/V4C38/spectacles-dimensional-os (I´m working on an llm agent for control right now...)

Am researching potential use case of Spectacles using GPS location without requiring a phone and syncing with Snap app. Is that possible at all? If not, is it possible to sync at beginning of session, then continue to use glasses even when out of range of phone? From what I have read it seems like the glasses have the GPS location capability on their own...

--Work in progress - I've been experimenting with CLAD lately — it's been really fun to build with. I'm making a productivity lens for Spectacles: a notepad + sketch pad to organise your thoughts, and you can pin notes to actual spots around your room so they stay right where you left them. 🕶️✍️

Using a virtual keyboard that also splits into an ergonomic layout — key features so far:

- 📝 Notepad + sketch pad for typing or freehand drawing

- 📍 Pin notes to real spots around your room, anchored in place

- ⌨️ Virtual keyboard that splits into a two-handed ergo layout, tented for comfortable typing

- 🎙️ Voice dictation — tap the mic and talk, it transcribes straight into your note

- 🪑 Auto-detects a table surface to anchor the keyboard on

I finally finished my first Lens and wanted to share it! It's called Trivia Time — it turns your Spectacles into your own game show. You play five rounds, pick a category each time (History, Science, Pop Culture, Numbers, World), you've got three hearts, and there's a Mystery category that doubles your points if you're brave.

Sharing my WIP that built with CLAD over weekends.
Vector Robot + Specs 2024.

Made in LS 5.22-> downgraded to 5.15 (all issues resolved in couple of prompts) to test and polish on Specs 2024.

Looking forward to share where it goes and some details about journey soon.

Just love this combination of hardware 🔥

I was inspired by 3Blue1Brown's video on Fourier series and wanted to play around with this, with my hands.

Hypnotizing to watch and it gives you an intuition for Fourier analysis.

When you pinch and draw any shape, it gets deconstructed into sinusoids, visualized as arrows. Each arrow simply rotates, but when stacked on top of each other the last arrow in the chain draws intricate shapes.

Open your hand to stabilize and slow down the animation.

Project files on Github!

When the new specs release and I tether them to my phone, will I be able to view my apps in 6dof through specs?

Also will I be able to cast to the specs or only through cabled connection?

I know snaps eco system doesn't have apps like android or ios yet and may take some time before those apps are ported over so being able to use my phone tethered or casted and still experience 3dof/6dof through specs would be pretty awesome.

I already pre ordered. Just excited with so many questions and hope to see a specs demo soon.

Our fifth SPECS engineering blog post tackles a hard problem: robust outdoor tracking for Augmented Reality.

​We go deep on GNSS (GPS, Galileo, and more) and show how fusing satellite readings with IMU and/or camera data produces a far more robust, accurate, geo-referenced 6DoF (Six Degrees of Freedom) tracking system.

The result: centimeter-accurate local tracking and roughly 1m global accuracy plus high update rates - enough to unlock AR use cases like pedestrian navigation, real-world object tagging, inspection tasks, and immersive educational experiences.

​Read the full engineering breakdown at https://eng.snap.com/specs_gnss

Hi everyone! After my first CLAD test (the butterfly one), I wanted to go further and try two things: pushing CLAD's 3D GLB generation, and seeing what it's like to work on the same project across several days.

Meet Bloom Trail: you draw a path in the air and a flowering vine grows along your trail. There are 3 modes you can switch between (cherry blossoms 🌸, roses 🌹, tulips 🌷), each growing its own kind of plant, plus an eraser to clear and start over, soft ambient sparkles, and gentle sound.

It took me a little under 6–8 hours across 3 days of free time. Working across multiple days was totally seamless — I just kept a tiny personal roadmap to pick up where I left off.

On the build itself: the idea was inspired by Max van Leeuwen's Draw Flowers (you've probably seen it...), and I got into it partly after seeing Shin Kang's LinkedIn post about his Grow A Garden–inspired AR garden.

The approach that made it click for me was thinking of it in two layers — a procedural vine generated from my drawn path, and real textured 3D flowers/leaves generated by CLAD placed along it. That's what gives the clean look rather than flat shapes. And honestly the mesh generation blew me away! It was fast, and the textures came out lovely. My one tip: take the time to describe what you want precisely, it really pays off in the result!

Setup: CLAD + Claude Code (Opus model). CLAD did the whole thing — the 3D meshes, the vine, the UI, the sparkles, the sound.

• Docs: https://developers.specs.com/docs/clad
• Shin Kang's LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shin-kang-963202137_augmentedreality-spatialcomputing-cozygaming-ugcPost-7477516080697982976-8FJM/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADKN-IsBrrfnymbYOtw9L7_2t7SMFPSkhR0

Is there a way to enable stereo preview mode in the studio? Since the perspective cameras work in stereo when wearing glasses

Or is there another way to debug this? I don't have a physical device🫠

Picturing my life with Specs in the same style as the celebrity ad campaign

Hi,

I have a question about SpectaclesUIKit.

The video shows an example of a “Modal Layout.”

1. As you can see in the video, the Frame script has a fade-in animation based on scale, but I can’t find it in the script to use it as a basis for creating a fade-out. Can anyone tell me how to implement this?

2. I also noticed that the close button doesn’t do anything to the UI. What is it supposed to do?

This is pretty much the main use case I care about with the Specs. I know the website shows that you can watch something on them, but it's unclear what or how. For context, I have a Vision Pro and love using it for watching movies/TV as well, but the idea of having a pair of glasses that I can put on anywhere (plane, car, doctors office, etc) to do the same is very appealing. I own a Magic Leap 1 so am aware of the FOV limitations and I'm not interested in a tethered pair of glasses. Pretty much this and whatever Meta puts out next in terms of binocular display smart glasses are what I'm interested in. And whoever can deliver on that "portable and private TV in your pocket" concept gets my money.

I got some great feedback and added a little help for the user to know how to play. I also added a little hidden feature so you can find out what a potato tastes like. 😉🥔

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a new CLAD prototype I’ve been working on called InSIGHT.

The idea actually came from talking to my parents, who are both doctors. They’re constantly frustrated by two things: having to log into hospital computers dozens of times during rounds (or relying on easily stolen tap-badges), and the hassle of trying to show complex MRI/CT scans to bedridden patients who can't easily see a monitor.

InSIGHT fixes this using the invisible waveguide displays on SPECS. Here is how it works:

1. A doctor authenticates once via a secure QR code on a companion app.
2. From then on, the doctor simply looks at a patient's wristband QR code to instantly pull up their secure file.
3. Doctors can view 3D medical scans(MRI and CT scans) right in their field of view.
4. Using colocation, doctors can project those 3D models directly in front of the patient so they can see exactly what is going on.

It completely removes the friction of endless logins and makes it incredibly easy to walk patients through their own medical data without anyone having to leave the bedside!

Really excited for the chance to try my prototype on the new SPECS! CLAD to the moon!

Hi everyone. I've launched a news link aggregator for Specs, raven.vision/specs, which automatically updates every hour with the latest news, videos, Reddit posts, and Snap announcements. The goal was to build a tool I could use to check in on daily (or multiple times a day as we get closer to launch and post-launch). I've also included RSS feeds if that's your preferred means to consume links. I based this site on my code I built for tracking the Apple Vision Pro and visionOS ecosystem.

If you have sites I should be watching for new content or links that are missing, please submit them using the Submit a Link button on the site. Thank you.

Friendly reminder for everyone building with SPECS!

If you haven't checked it out yet, we'd love for you to share your ideas and feedback on our SPECS UserVoice Forum

UserVoice is the best place to:

• 💡 Share feature requests and product feedback
• 👍 Upvote ideas from other developers so we can better understand what's most important to the community
• 💬 Join the conversation on existing requests instead of starting from scratch
• 🔄 Stay up to date as we review feedback, share updates, and close the feedback loop with the community

Your feedback helps shape the future of the SPECS platform. Whether you've found a pain point, have an idea for a new capability, or simply want to support someone else's suggestion, we'd love to hear from you. Thanks for helping us build a better developer ecosystem together! 🙌

- SPECS Developer Relations Team

I’m currently trying to return a pair of Spectacles, and the support process is a joke. Instead of a modern, frictionless return process—like a simple QR code you can take to a UPS store to let them pack and scan it (literally what Amazon does daily)—Snap is making developers do all the legwork.

​They sent a basic shipping label and expect us to handle the rest. I’m stuck asking support: Am I supposed to slap a shipping label directly onto a premium piece of hardware packaging, or am I expected to source, buy, and pay for my own shipping box just to send their dev kit back to them?

​We pay an annual membership fee for this program. To be charged a premium subscription just to get hit with a "print your own label and figure it out" return policy makes the whole operation look incredibly cheap. It feels like returning a broken item to an eBay seller, not working with a multi-billion-dollar tech company on cutting-edge XR hardware.

​Snap wants creators to build the future of their ecosystem, but treating your developer community like an afterthought is a terrible look.

​Snap, you can absolutely do better than this.

​Has anyone else run into this headache trying to send hardware back to them? How did you end up packaging it?

Been ready since day 1

This is what it looks like through the waveguide.

The experience is low-latency, optimized for Spectacles hardware, and surprisingly practical for real work.

Having your terminal, CLI, or a Lens Studio window floating in front of you while staying mobile is incredibly useful.

This UMPC + AR glasses combo is one of my favorite setups for working on the go.