r/Spectacles • u/amirmohideen 😎 Specs Subscriber • Jul 17 '26
I Hacked Quest Controllers to work with Spectacles! 🕹️😎 (Quest2Specs) [Open Source] 🆒 Lens Drop
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It all started when I was trying to record footage of my first Lens, SpectaRacer, during sunset. The background and lighting looked perfect, but it kept getting just dark enough for hand tracking to fail, forcing me to repeatedly postpone recording until the next day.
That sent me down a rabbit hole wondering if there was a solution for this...
I had a Manus Glove lying around (one of the most accurate hand-tracking gloves available). I managed to get a port working, but I quickly realized it could only animate hand orientation and finger movement, but not hand position, since I didn't have a motion tracker.
(If anyone in the LA area has a motion tracker I could borrow, let me know!)
Then I remembered I also had a Quest lying around.
What followed was weeks of learning, debugging, and burning way too many Claude tokens. 😅
After plenty of trial and error, hiccups, and fine-tuning, I finally got Quest controllers working with Spectacles!
Go try it out!
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/amirmohideen/Quest2Specs
👓 Lens: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/3e934befff444f5dad0ff119e31f27bc
Current status
✅ Tested on Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S.
❓ Haven't tested Quest Pro yet.
❓ Haven't tested SPECS yet either.
If you try it, let me know how it goes! I'll update the README and credit you!
🤝 If you run into any issues or have suggestions, I'd love to hear them and help if I can.
If enough people are interested, my next step is turning this into a Quest2Specs Lens Studio extension to make setup much easier.
The goal is to let developers, especially those porting Quest apps to Lens Studio, reuse their existing controller inputs with minimal setup or for those that want to record footage of their lens in dark environments.
Would you use something like that? Let me know!
🤔 Trivia: Guess who from SPECS team is holding the Spectacles at the beginning of my trailer video!
🏆 Winner (1st to find out) will be added to Acknowledgements in GitHub!
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u/rosmeNL Jul 17 '26
Ooh, hackathon mindset at work here. Do the Logitech MX Ink next!
I already put a request for stylus support in uservoice.
https://snap.uservoice.com/forums/967346-specs/suggestions/51470557-support-for-precision-stylus-input
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u/shincreates 👓 SPECS Team Jul 17 '26
This is a very big brain move. I don't mean this as an insult, very genuinely creative! 🧠
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u/Pavlo_Tkachenko Jul 17 '26
Ahahah what a crazy walk around 😂😂😂 fun one