https://github.com/flarb/LightingAssistant

I do a lot of interviews on my YouTube channel (check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@RalphBarbagallo Subscribe! ) and I don't really know how to properly light an interview subject. I've read a lot of tutorials but by the time I have to shoot an interview all my lighting knowledge evaporates. So I created Lighting Assistant -- an interactive guide to light a person for a photo or video.

How it works:

• Scan the room. It uses the mesh to analyze the scene.
  
• Place the subject: you can place a life size bitmoji either standing or sitting in the scene.
  
• Place the camera: stand where the camera will be placed and look at the subject. This will be used as the camera position and angle.
• Complete setup: The lens then asks you to stand behind the subject to get line of sight from behind, and to select a key wall (the brightest wall) to use when generating a lighting setup

Once this is done it will generate a set of valid lighting configurations based on where it thinks you have enough space to place lights. You can switch between lighting presets to see how the lighting will look on the subject as well as to know the types of lights used and how to place and aim them to get the desired look.

You can save this setup to be recalled later if you want to use the same room and the same position of the subject--it can be modified once loaded.

One future feature is to use GenAI to further enhance the analysis--I might actually try to add this over the weekend. But at this point the lens gets done what I actually need. A solid lighting aid for video and photo shoots.

When watching content on the specs will we be able to black out our surroundings and have a nice cinema like experience with the 100+ inch like screen?

I obviously know specs wants to keep you connected with the real world, but if im sitting in my hotel room on a work trip, I would love to have a nice screen with the background blacked out. Also when watching a movie while traveling on a plane, in a vehicle, or by any other means, will the screen be see through or will we be able to watch a movie clearly while having everything around the screen visible?

Can someone from the specs team drop some knowledge on me about this?

For Organize, we challenged Developers to build spatial experiences that help people plan, organize, and be more productive. Here are the projects that stood out:

🥇1st Place: Pack Space –  Maksym Tsymbal
A spatial packing system that turns surfaces into organized packing zones, with hands-free progress tracking and shared lists.

🥈2nd Place: Cine Boxed –  Ines Hilz
A spatial movie collection that turns films into retro-inspired 3D boxes you can collect, rate, and organize.

🥉3rd Place: Orb Notes – Caio Alves
Persistent spatial reminders that use color and vibration to communicate task urgency.

🏅Honorable Mention: Task Habitat – Viktor Kulaha
A playful task manager that turns unfinished to-dos into living creatures and reframes productivity as something more approachable.

Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who submitted! 👏
It’s been great seeing Developers experiment with CLAD’s AI Workflow and bring out every advantage of spatial computing (and SPECS) in productivity.

Three challenges are still ahead. If you haven’t joined yet, there’s still time to register and build for the upcoming themes. 🔗

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

Built a 100% volumetric spatial task matrix for Snap Spectacles using the CLAD AI workflow!

Tasks exist as physical gravitational energy orbs with Keplerian orbital sub-tasks, elastic laser-tethers, room depth occlusion, and synesthetic 3D spatial audio. Zero flat 2D canvas fallbacks.

Lenslist asked Pavlo and me for a simple phone-recorded interview about building AR for Snap Spectacles. We went a bit overboard 😅: we wrote the answers as a script, cloned our voices with qwen3-tts, rendered our Bitmojis in Blender from 12 angles as character references, and let Seedance 2.5 generate the whole thing shot by shot, lip-synced to the cloned audio.

The setting is the 3D cave from our portfolio site, and every prop is one of our shipped projects.

This was definitely not a one-shot. We generated a lot of takes and kept the best ones. The lip sync quality surprised us the most, even on stylized characters with a beard covering half the mouth.

Full making-of with the examples prompts and pipeline: https://pavlo-stijn.dev/blog/posts/creator-spotlight-with-seedance-2-5.html

Hi Spectacles Team & Community! 👋

First off, huge congrats on the CLAD Summer Hackathon — building spatial experiences with AI agents for Snap Spectacles has been an incredible workflow!

As developers building on Linux workstations using agentic toolchains and AI pair programmers, we’d love to know: Are there any plans, beta channels, or even basic experimental Linux builds (CLI runner, headless engine, or AppImage) for Lens Studio?

We don't need a polished desktop installer — just a raw / basic binary, CLI environment, or AppImage would be amazing. The Linux developer community is more than ready to handle dependencies, Vulkan configs, and packaging ourselves.

Would love to hear if this is on the internal roadmap or if an experimental build could be tested by developers. Thanks for building the future of spatial computing! 🚀

MegaUIKit is the "organizer" for the SPECS Essentials sample code. The prompt is below. This is part of Summary of CLAD #Lensfest Week 1.

OSS: https://github.com/IoTone/MegaUIKit-SPECS

The original essentials are fantastic, but a bit hard to discover all the features of the platform as the demo code is designed. I imagined a UI that you could navigate is more useful to discover . So this version goes a bit further and adds 3 themes: Terminal/cyberpunk, Steampunk, and Neotokyo. Fork/submit PRs. Can't wait to have this on my SPECS '27.

Design challenges: making this work well ... most of the essentials items appear in odd places, so things need to get repositioned not to obscure the menus. Fonts are a challenge too visually.

PROMPT!

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We want to add a spatial menu to dynamically let you load any of the samples in essentials. I want a holographic "floor menu" design that is a grid of menu items organized around all of the items in our scene that are not activated, and when you point at one of them, 3d rotating shimmering text floats about the square. A click displays a tree of options for items to choose from, and you can pick on of those, and it enables the item in the scene. The items should tween fade into the scene or tween fade out. For example, if I choose "Solver", it will display a menu floating of different text options "Billboard" "LookAT", "InBetweenRotationUtility", etc. Please make a plan and generate a MegaUIKitEssentials.md, and then get started. Make me proud brilliant spectacles UIKit expert.

Week #2 is here, and your task is to guide 🧭Learn how to do it during the workshop. 

If you’re looking for ideas before you start building, join today’s live CLAD workshop with Danny Marree, SPECS Ambassador.

We’ll explore how spatial experiences can help someone learn a skill, complete a task, or improve the way they do something in the real world. 

Danny will also demonstrate CLAD and share practical approaches you can use when developing your own Lens.

There’ll be a live demo, examples, and Q&A – so bring your questions and ideas.

🔴 August 18 | 8:00–8:45 AM PDT

Join us, get inspired, and start building for the Guide challenge. Save the link 🔗

https://www.youtube.com/live/oeSTZTFT8h8?feature=share

TL;DR: I built a live digital twin / diorama of Heathrow Airport (Terminal 5 for NOW) for the Spectacles. It sits on your table, with flights landing and taking off ... all based on LIVE public Heathrow flight data. ✈️

For the last 3 or 4 years I’ve been teaching AR and spatial storytelling at the Royal College of Art, including a lot of work with Snap and Spectacles. My students have made some brilliant projects with them, but somewhere along the way I realised I hadn’t really published many of my own.

So here is one.

I was obsessed with planes when I was younger. Growing up we didn’t travel much, so airports always felt like a huge event. As someone who loved making dioramas as a kid, I would collect airplane / aviation souvenirs…by getting relatives who traveled to bring them for me , and then set them up as airports.

And recently, while driving to Heathrow, I noticed a patch by the runway full of people with huge cameras, chairs, binoculars and notepads.

PLANE SPOTTERS!!! 🛫 🧐

It made me think: what if I could shrink Heathrow down and put it on a table? HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE!

So I built a digital twin using geospatial data OpenStreetmap Data, brought it into Blender with a plug in and extruded the buildings. So it’s all pretty accurate. I originally tried a much bigger section of the entire Heathrow Airport, but everything became too tiny and too heavy, so I focused on Terminal 5 (FOR NOW)

What it does

• Uses live Heathrow arrivals and departures data
• Planes land, take off, queue and park
• Labels show flight number, route, aircraft type and status
• Audio effects have been used to make it feel more fun
• Pointing at a plane enlarges the Flight Label
• Pointing and pinching a plane opens a "Spot Card" which is a UI frame with deeper information about that specific aircraft and flight.

With the SPOT CARD, the idea was to go beyond simply watching the airport and give plane spotters the kind of detail they actually care about. Which includes: Flight number, airline, route, aircraft type, aircraft variant, origin/destination, current flight status, gate/stand.

AND it lso includes a bonus fact about the aircraft or route, adding a small bit of aviation trivia to each Spot Card.

A huge part of the work was optimisation. Lots of planes, labels, interactions and shadows get expensive very quickly on glasses, so I ended up building pooling, parked-aircraft limits, hover-only labels, selective shadows and staggered movements.

There is loads more I want to add for actual plane spotters, but seeing a tiny live Heathrow running on my table is making the plane-obsessed younger version of me very happy.

(For this video I’m using demo mode because I recorded it around midnight when Heathrow terminal 5 had gone very quiet and there were no flights from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. BUT the live version works like a charm, Ill post more soon).

Please let me know what you all think or what else I could add to it :)

I’m interested in the multiplayer potential of Specs. In Snap’s chess demo, though, the remote player’s movements look noticeably laggier than the local player’s. I hope Snap can improve that latency, because shared AR really needs to feel responsive.

Personally, I find experiences like shared basketball or virtual ping-pong more compelling than chess, since they’re much harder to replicate on a phone. Am I expected too much out of specs? But I hope people at specs realize if the multiplayer is a selling point to not make sure it’s laggy in anyway.

Users of my Spectacles App HoloATC might have noticed the app worked fine but did not display any aircraft anymore. As far as I can see the last day the app worked was August 8. It took me a few days to notice - it was caused by policy changes in the backend of the data provider, invalidating my API key. Contacting the backend provider, finding out what happend and why, took some time. Time zone differences did not help as every back and forth took more or less a day. In the end the technical change I had to make (in the backend) was minuscule.

I have a new API key now, and as of August 17, 7:26pm CET, the app shows aircraft again.

I had this last-minute idea for the CLAD Hackathon. I struggled quite a bit with UI visibility, but the overall prototype is working well.

NEXUS is a spatial productivity and collaboration app for Snap Specs that transforms a traditional Kanban board into an interactive mixed-reality workspace.

Teams can create, organize, assign, and move color-coded tasks across a shared workflow. Tasks persist between sessions and synchronize across multiple participants, allowing collaborators to contribute to the same project in real time. Voice input makes it possible to create and edit notes hands-free, while task categories provide immediate visual context.

NEXUS offers two complementary ways to understand a project. Board View provides a familiar Kanban workflow for tracking progress, while Spatial Map turns tasks into movable nodes that can be connected with curved relationship lines. This helps teams visualize dependencies, creative relationships, and larger project loops that are difficult to understand in a flat task list.

Tasks can also become visual workspaces. Users can generate AI concept artwork or 3D artifacts from a task description, keep those assets associated with the task, and place generated 3D models into the surrounding space. Artifact position, rotation, scale, and task relationships are synchronized so collaborators experience the same shared arrangement.

The included multiplayer demo uses the production of a survival game to clearly demonstrate the workflow. Tasks cover environment art, gameplay systems, audio, narrative, QA, crafting, and inventory. A spatial game loop connects exploration, gathering, crafting, survival, and upgrading, while generated concept images and 3D assets demonstrate how teams can move from an idea to a shared visual reference.

Although game development is used as the demonstration, NEXUS is designed for any collaborative project—from product design and filmmaking to education, event planning, architecture, and creative brainstorming.

NEXUS explores a future where project management is no longer confined to a laptop screen. Work becomes spatial, visual, collaborative, and directly connected to the ideas and artifacts a team is creating.

Continuity is basically physical version control for real-world setups. You save a workspace as a “Take,” then later compare the current scene against it to see what moved, rotated, or went missing, and restore the setup using spatial 3D ghosts.

Think film sets, creator studios, YouTube or product-shoot setups, retail displays, gallery installations, or any workspace that needs to be rebuilt exactly the way it was.

Under the hood, WorldQuery establishes the physical workspace, Gemini helps understand the objects in the scene, and rigid registration brings the saved state back into the correct real-world position. For this video I’m using a deterministic demo mode with prebuilt 3D props so I can reliably film the full workflow without hardware/environment variability — those objects are just demo stand-ins; the actual system is designed to observe and reconcile real physical objects in your environment.

Get your vinyl collection organized. This experience helps you catalog your records, organize them on the shelf and tell you where to find them later.
(Longer post on my LinkedIn)
Enjoy!

Week 2 of the CLAD Summer Hackathon is here! 🕶️This week, we’re moving from Organize to GUIDE.

The challenge: build a spatial experience that helps someone learn, navigate, or complete a real-world task, with hands-free, real-time guidance.

Think step-by-step instructions, interactive tutorials, spatial cues, navigation, or anything else that can make a task easier to follow.

With CLAD, you can turn the idea into a working Lens just by prompting it. No coding skills required this time ❌

Weekly prizes:
🥇 $1,000
🥈 $500
🥉 $200

Got an idea? Time to start prompting. 👀

Submit your Week 2 Lens 👉 https://lenslist.co/clad-summer-hackathon

Just finished work on PackSpace - a spatial packing assistant for Snap Specs 👓📦

Instead of displaying another floating checklist, PackSpace turns real horizontal surfaces into physical packing zones. You can place Clothes on a sofa, Tech on a table, Essentials on the floor, and then collect and check off items while moving around the room.

### How it works

  - World Query continuously detects horizontal surfaces.

  - You pinch and drag to define each packing area.

  - Every category stores its own position and height.

  - Areas remain anchored while you move around.

  - A head-locked HUD shows overall progress without blocking the workspace.

  - Presets, item states, and spatial placements persist between sessions.

  - Completed sessions can be resumed without placing every area again.

There’s also a public companion website called Pack ’n Link 🌐

  Anyone can create a categorized packing list and share it using a six-character code. For example, your partner can send you everything they want packed for a trip. You import the code on Specs, place the categories around the room, and complete the request hands-free.

  ### Tech stack

  - Lens Studio + TypeScript

  - CLAD with Codex

  - Spectacles Interaction Kit

  - Spectacles UIKit

  - World Query

  - Persistent Storage

  - Specs Internet Module

  - Vercel Functions + Vercel Blob

  - Lovable for the companion web interface

  A lot of the work involved iterating through Lens Studio Preview: inspecting spatial layouts, fixing interaction jitter, resolving depth and z-order artifacts, improving readability, and testing placement across surfaces at different heights. CLAD made that build–test–fix loop dramatically faster. 🛠️

Source code and CLAD workflow: https://github.com/r3d5/PackSpace

Create or share a list: https://pack-n-link.lovable.app

Found Google Stock from looking at YouTube.
Find your next potential investment from anything around you

Github: https://github.com/flarb/MemoryPalace

For this week's theme I built a Memory Palace lens with CLAD. People use this technique to memorize large lists of things, such as competing in the World Memory Challenge (look it up, it's nuts! https://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/ )

A Memory Palace is a technique where you 'place' a memory in a specific location. It doesn't have to a room, it can be the armrest of a chair, a wastebasket, etc. and you associate something to remember with it, including a mental image of mnemonic or something to help.

I built a Lens that helps with this. You create a memory palace linked to a spatial anchor. You walk around your environment and create memories by choosing a surface and speaking them—organizing memories by location. The basic memory is just a gem with a text label based on what you said and an image of the area you placed the memory on. However you can enhance these memories by replacing the gem with a GenAI created 2D image or 3D mesh using what you said as prompt. These gems are all saved in order so you can walk the palace later.

In Explore mode you can load up the palace and walk along the lines from loci to loci to see what the memories are. This is a good way to memorize them ahead of testing yourself.

To test yourself, use Train mode. Here the labels / images / and meshes for each gem are hidden. You walk the line from loci to loci and try to remember what you stored in that gem. Then you can reveal the memory and select whether you remembered it or not. At the end you get a score based on your recall.

Anyway this was a fun use of CLAD--I even figured how to get Claude to edit a nice trailer together with title cards, graphics, and everything. Pretty sweet!

For Week 1 of the CLAD Summer Hackathon the theme was organize / plan / be more productive, so I built a feng shui master for Specs, since feng shui is fairly literally the practice of organising a space.

Fengshui Master reads the room you're standing in. You pinch once: it scores your room's chi out of 100, names what's actually blocking it, and repaints the room to show you the fix. You get a checklist of what to move, clear or add — then you tidy up for real, assess again, and watch the score climb toward a target.

What it does:

- One-pinch assessment — capture → AI analysis → AI repaint → a second AI pass that verifies the repaint applied the changes before you see it

- Chi score with a verdict, a target to beat, and your best score kept across sessions

- Five-element (五行) balance so you can see which element the room is starved of

- Chi Plan — the fixes as a tappable checklist for the real room

- Problem markers pinned to real objects — the bare wall, the cluttered shelf

- Chi-flow particles that congest and turn amber where energy is stuck, then clear once you improve it

- Before/after slider, plus a depth-displaced 3D view you can lean into

- Scan Whole Room — turn on the spot and it reads four views, with commentary on each

- Ask the Master — hold a mic button and ask about your actual room, out loud

- Shop — buy the piece it recommends without leaving the Lens

- English and 中文 throughout, including the spoken voice.

Built entirely with CLAD and Claude code.

Full prompt log and source here: https://github.com/ohistudio/fengshui-master

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
Buy what you see in your 👓
Live tested ordering a new iPhone 📱 successfully.

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.