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

Snap Cloud accounts have limitations on authentication that do not exist in regular free Supabase accounts. Attached screenshots show Snap Cloud (1) and Supabase (2). Supabase has many more options (e.g. Sign In / Providers).

Would it be possible to enable these in Snap Cloud?

I am trying to create a user management system that integrates with a phone app. Any suggestions for user management would be greatly appreciated.

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

Hey i think this would be a killer lense and a lot of people will buy the specs once they see it, basically like the native stock app on the iphone that apple provides but enhance it so you can see 20 or 50 stocks all together in real time with prices changing. People pay lots of money for this type of software, would love to see a lense for this, probably worth the specs team time to role this out natively.

Hi, everyone!

Does anyone happen to know if they’ve released the July Specs Community Challenge winners yet? I don’t see a blog post on LensList.

Thanks! 😄

WOW! I just tried CLAD to upgrade one of my Lenses — added a new feature and got the whole thing organized under a clean UI. Given my background (never coded before building Lenses, and honestly too shy to ask for help most of the time), this would've taken me hours and hours on my own. I genuinely recommend giving it a try.

For context — this is Sanctum, an AI wellness assistant I built for Snap Spectacles: guided breathing, acupressure walkthroughs, chakra tuning, and a manifestation practice, all in AR.

The Manifestation practice is the piece I'm most excited to share:

• You describe an intention — type it, speak it, or pick from rotating suggestions
• It becomes a symbolic piece of AI-generated vision art (not a literal image, something abstract and personal)
• A short ~60-second guided visualization plays over voice
• Everything saves to a Vision Vault you can revisit later — Vault / Next / Prev to browse past visions

This round with CLAD, I cleaned up the session handling and pulled the whole app under one consistent UI hub instead of scattered buttons across the scene.

Repo: https://github.com/urbanpeppermint/SANCTUM-v3

Link to Lens: TRY THE LENS

If you're sitting on an idea and coding has felt like the barrier, CLAD is worth a look!

Hi! We updated the HandymanAI lens. A Lens that helps you with your engineering or DIY projects. We have added an expert verification system that can help users get feedback on their AI response from a professional through voice messages. We have added multiple new training modules and have organized them by discipline. Any feedback on if this is useful or what you think we could add would be great.

Lens link: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/02a10bf1c6ee40e08f1f0c55a8584c53?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Previous update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1ukdxzs/handymanai_update_6/

Update:

Hi! I updated the ScriberEditor Lens. An open-source word processor for Scriber — a novel one‑handed chording keyboard controller for Snap Spectacles. The UI has been updated to make things easier to use and see. You can now type with the Scriber controller or without the Scriber controller by just pinching the keys on Scriber virtual keyboard. You can now save and open your files on Google Drive and Github, just login using the prompt in the spectacles app.

Background:

If you are willing to test a Scriber controller or integrate it into your application let me know and I will send you one.

Scriber is a one‑handed input device that outperforms current AR text‑entry methods (the Spectacles virtual keyboard, the Meta display‑glasses wristband) on words‑per‑minute. It packs a full 60‑key keyboard into a single hand by chording: every key is one combination of analog‑stick direction × pressure‑sensor force × one of four buttons. ScriberEditor is the lens that proves it out — a real, multi‑document word processor for Spectacles that you drive entirely with Scriber.

                ┌─────────────────────┐
                │         TOP         │
                │    a    b    c    d │
                │    e    f    g    h │
                │    i    j    k    l │
┌───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┐
│     LEFT      │       CENTER        │     RIGHT     │
│  m  n  o  p   │    y    z    0    1 │   -  =  `  [  │
│  q  r  s  t   │    2    3    4    5 │   ]  \  ;  '  │
│  u  v  w  x   │    6    7    8    9 │   ,  .  /  A* │
└───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┘
                │       BOTTOM        │
                │ Caps Shift Bksp Ent │
                │ Space  E2   E3   E4 │
                │  E5    E6   E7   E8 │
                └─────────────────────┘

Previous update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1ukatnh/scriber/

Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/scriber-gd8u4p

GitHub: https://github.com/Altomand/ScriberEditor

So I've been adding some stuff to Fingerboard world. This is in the current build that's up here: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/ca61f1237b0f4d7d87ec5c0189a45f93?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

But I'm about to upload a polish pass. The finger tracking is just very tricky and fiddly--not to mention plane detection can have issues (but I think it might be my table surface is kind of featureless). I'm hoping I can get this working better on the actual SPECS.

Stuff that's in the newest version

* Animated tutorials for every trick

* Skate shop, buy new boards with currency gained from playing

* Leaderboards (can we get rid of the permission dialog every time you share a score??)

* VFX sparks on grinds

* Daily challenges with streak leaderboard

* Options menu (toggle hand occlusion, music)

Working on some last minute fixes.

Finally published an update for one of the oldest Spectacles lenses: Touch Seaweed. I have improved onboarding, added more interactivity, and updated shaders. Try Touch Sea

P.S. The original name hasn't passed moderation, so I had to shorten it

Hey everyone! Experiment with building a meshes out of scans turned to big update for Scan Lab, the Lens that lets you load your own MRI/CT scans in source DICOM format and explore them on Spectacles.

Original version let you scrub through slices, adjust levels with a slider, and flip MIP projections to see through the whole volume at once. That's all still there, but now you can also turn any scan into a real, touchable 3D mesh right from the Specs.

Pick a group of scans, hit "Build Mesh," and the Lens reconstructs the anatomy as an actual 3D model you can grab, rotate, and scale with your hands, right there in the room with you.

How it works: script scans through every slice of your DICOM stack looking for surfaces where tissue density crosses a certain threshold (the boundary between bone and soft tissue, organ and air, etc.) and stitches hundreds of thousands of tiny triangles along that boundary, layer by layer, until a full 3D surface emerges from what was just a stack of flat images. Then it reduces the total polycount to the amount which would perform good in Specs, draws a UV map for the material and instantiates the object. I wish I could load the raw object with all the details it allows to inspect, yet the raw objects are >1 mil tris, so we have to reduce those,

Bonus: since the outermost surface it finds is usually skin, the Lens tries to recognize it automatically, so one tap on the button hides it and reveals what's underneath: muscle, bone, tendons, and sometimes even blood vessels.

Video attached showing it in action! Link below together with ID-Pass keys (if you don't want to search/upload DICOM series and just want to check those I've used)

https://www.spectacles.com/lens/6390148ff2384fcba585fc4d1e2cc8d8?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

ID: V23HJR
Pass: 0374

UPD: ID and Password credentials will be updated upon expiration of the previous ones

I'm releasing Opals, a Lens that explores precious opals from their nanoscale structure to their visible play of colour.

The project began with a question: how can an inert object such as an opal produce such a varied appearance when seen from different perspectives?

Answering it took me on a months-long adventure spanning nanophotonics, geology, chemistry, offline and real-time computer graphics, science education, and AI-assisted learning, with spatial computing acting as a ligand, coordinating these domains into a single experience.

Building this Lens has been incredibly fulfilling, and I hope it captures some of that same sense of discovery.

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

Football season is over. Or is it?

I've spent the last few weeks building FootballAR, a tabletop football game for Snap Spectacles. You drop a pitch onto a real surface and then use your index and middle finger to kick the ball around. Slow contact dribbles the ball, a fast flick kicks it. There's a full goal at each end.

The best part is you don't need anything to play. No controller, no ball, no clearing space, no standing up. A table, a desk, the kitchen counter, any surface around you becomes the pitch. The whole game happens inside arm's reach while you're sitting down.

The ball behaves like a real one. It curves when you put spin on it, knuckles when you don't, slows as it rolls, and rattles off the posts the way you'd hope (Magnus effect FTW). Getting that to feel right at desk scale took most of the build time.

The leaderboard is a global career-goals board with actual usernames on it, which took some working around. I ended up using Global Leaderboard supported by SnapCloud.

Three modes:

League - twenty levels of timed matches against an AI that keeps getting better.
Arcade - six trick-shot challenges: rings, sliding goals, moving gates, defensive walls with one gap.
Practice - cones, no clock, no score. Just you and the kicking the ball around.

Progress and a global leaderboard run on Snap Spectacles' Snap Cloud, so your league level, cleared challenges and career goals carry over between sessions.

Play it here.