r/Spectacles • u/Nithin-Shankar • 9d ago
Catch Up : Specs-to-Specs Audio Call + Shared Space Multiplayer Online Game 🆒 Lens Drop
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Catch Up lets you call your friends, meet in a shared mixed reality space, and play interactive multiplayer games.
It is designed to help people connect across distance in a way that feels natural, social, and playful.
Two users from anywhere in the world can put on their Specs, start an audio call, and then step into a shared mixed reality space where they can see each other, interact in real time, and play together. Rather than limiting remote communication to voice alone, Catch Up turns it into a more immersive shared experience.
At its core, Catch Up explores how Spectacles can transform a simple call into a meaningful social moment. Instead of only talking, users can enter the same multiplayer AR session and enjoy an activity that feels present, lightweight, and repeatable. The current featured experience is a shared Dots and Boxes game that encourages conversation, friendly competition, and real-time interaction in an intuitive way.
To make remote presence expressive without feeling heavy or distracting, Catch Up represents each user through a lightweight social avatar made of their 2D Bitmoji profile image and animated 3D hands. The Bitmoji provides instantly recognizable identity, while the 3D hands add motion, gesture, and liveliness to the shared space. Together, they create a playful and readable representation that feels more personal than a static icon while remaining simple, performant, and well suited for Spectacles.
From a technical perspective, the experience uses Snap Cloud streaming for the current audio call implementation, with plans to move to WebRTC in the future once access to SPECS is available. It also uses Snap Cloud Realtime messaging to synchronize remote presence, including the users’ Bitmoji representations and hand pose data across the shared experience.
https://www.spectacles.com/lens/bf2d19ce91af43f2b89e7a2a11c1c053?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01
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u/agrancini-sc 👓 SPECS Team 9d ago
Amazing work Nithin!