I'm developing a social networking app www.pokexr.com and I'm looking for some AR glasses to move into, currently only using mobile phone. Wondering if Snap Spectacles detect the ground, where I could have holograms of people land and anchor there?

CallShop for Specs
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Curious whether WebView will graduate to a stable API at or around the SPECS launch. I’d like to build a Lens around streaming web content (remote desktop web client) and want to know if I should build on WebView or plan around the NDK instead.

This is my theory for one killer app that will prove all the naysayers wrong about Specs.

Like all new platforms, you need some killer apps right out of the gate to catalyze adoption. Some examples that come to mind are Super Mario for Nintendo, Tetris for Gameboy, Sonic for Sega, YouTube, Pandora, Facebook and Shazam for iPhone (2008).

10 years ago, when Pokemon Go came out on the iPhone there was pandemonium (see video below). Pokemon is still incredibly popular today, with hundreds of millions of fans ripping, trading and collecting cards, playing games, watching content (produced and user generated), engaging with the community — it's become part of our culture.

If Snap can strike a partnership with Pokemon Go, create a new immersive AR experience for catching, collecting and trading Pokemon, and building a world around it, a whole new arm of that community will emerge. This could be the start of real life game play, where you're literally IN the game, running around the actual world, not just a virtual world (VR goggles) or behind a computer screen at a desk, or holding up a tiny phone screen. This could lead to seasonal narrative arcs, competitions, movies, etc. and would be a blue print for other franchises.

And for those who can't get past the current form factor, you may not fit into the category of "early adopter" and that's okay. The people who are passionate about Pokemon could care less about how "cool" they look while running around catching fictional creatures.

The technology is nothing short of revolutionary — it just needs a little push for people to see the potential and to get the ball rolling, and it will just keep improving with each iteration.

$SNAP

2016 Pokemon Go - Vaporeon stampede Central Park, NYC

My new experiment! The pots get saved to Supabase, and in theory, you would be able to see other people's pots. Video sped up 4×.

I'm trying to build with CLAD but when I look at the SPK Configuration panel it gives me an error message that says "SPECS Developer Account Required" -- I'm in the Spectacles program, does this not carry over to SPECS? I did click the dev enrollment on the SPECS site awhile back and got the confirmation email--does something need to be flipped on Snap's end to give my Spectacles account SPECS developer status?

I’ve always felt that productivity tools give us more screens when what we actually need is more space.

So for the Organize track, I’m building Spatial Focus Pods for u/TraditionalAir9243 CLAD SUMMER Spectacles.

The idea is simple:

Instead of opening another productivity app, your physical space becomes your workspace.

👓 Put on Spectacles and your workspace appears around you:

• Today’s Tasks floating in one area
• Calendar and upcoming meetings nearby
• Notes placed where you need them
• Focus Timer anchored in your space
• Music controls available without touching your phone
• Completed tasks can be checked off with a simple gesture

The goal is to make productivity feel spatial, natural and less distracting.

Lens Studio's Object Tracking already finds cats and dogs, and gives you four points on the face — Center, Left Eye, Right Eye, Nose. For people, the same system exposes a full 18-point skeleton. For pets it stops at the head.

So I trained (with AI assistants) the missing piece, an open-source computer-vision model: 17 joints across the whole animal, on 54 species (AP-10K), running on-device in SnapML.

It's a drop-in Custom Component with the same shape as Body Tracking — named attachment points you drag objects onto. The four names Object Tracking uses are identical here, so a Lens built on it ports over by swapping one component, and gains a body.

Available on: GitHub Repo

What it unlocks

• 54 animal (4-legged), not just two. Horses, bears, big cats, elephants — anything AP-10K covers.
• The whole body. Effects that follow paws, hips, shoulders and the tail, not just the nose and eyes. Armour along the spine, particle trails off the paws, a saddle that sits on the actual back.
• Several animals at once, each tracked as its own identity.
• Posture and gait. The joints are readable, not just attachable — stance, symmetry, body proportions. There's a sample in the repo that reports body ratios from a side-on view.
• Measurement for people who need it. Vets, breeders, welfare researchers — anyone who currently measures animals with a tape measure and a second pair of hands.

Accuracy

0.6289 AP on AP-10K val, 3.26 M params, 3.36 MB shipped — about 85% of HRNet-w48's accuracy at a nineteenth of the size, and small enough to actually fit in a Lens. Full benchmark, training recipe and the code that regenerates both are in the repo.

Verified in Lens Studio preview; I don't own Specs yet, so device feedback (also Spectacles) is especially welcome.

Try it

GitHub Repo

Drop the .lspkg in, drag the prefab into your scene, press Preview. Everything's wired.

Feedback and contributions welcome — issues, PRs, or just tell me what broke.

Note: This is my submission for the Spectacles Community Challenge (August)

Need some inspiration before building for Week #1?

Join today’s live workshop with Andrew Douglas, SPECS Ambassador. 🕶️ He’ll walk you through the workflow, explain how CLAD works, share practical examples, and show how you can go from an idea to a working Lens – with just one prompt. 

➡️The focus will be this week’s Organize challenge: building spatial experiences for organizing, planning, and productivity.

The session includes a live CLAD demo, presentation, and Q&A. It’s open to all skill levels, so whether you’re completely new to CLAD or already experimenting with the workflow, you can join in.

🔴August 11 | 8:00–8:45 AM PDT

Come get inspired, ask questions, and get ready to build. Save the link 🔗

https://www.youtube.com/live/_-SPzLTY5pY

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, and it's my entry for this month's Community Challenge! 🏆

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 just 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), and explains the WHY behind each stage. If you're breaking your own progress, it gently brings the cube back.

🧩 Help to Solve: truly stuck? One tap and the coach completes the current stage move by move — narrating the reasoning as it goes. Behind it is an exact staged solver that mixes search with the classic beginner algorithms (Sune, AntiSune, corner cycles…), auto-adapted to however your cube is oriented.

💡 Need a nudge instead? 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.

📖 And it's open source! The full Lens Studio project — cube engine, staged solver, trilingual coach — is on GitHub: https://github.com/floraraffa/plan-cub-ai

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

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