Tried linking two phones to spectate the same Lens simultaneously, didn't work last time. Docs still show its one device at a time, has anyone found a workaround?

I'd like to have multiple camera angles whilst live-streaming my performances.

: )

I know ArtGuide just launched, but I couldn't wait to drop a major update!

You can now generate 3D still-life references and project them straight onto paper, create reference images on the fly, and get real-time AI feedback. Plus, I've added a voice tutor and a brand-new guided tutorial to help first-time users dive right in.

Lens link: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/b8ecbd5357d04c4b92b31a6a4c0f6027?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

ArtGuide is a spatial drawing and composition assistant for Specs that places accurate guides, references, and creative tools directly onto a real sheet of paper, canvas, wall, tabletop, or easel.

Artists can select from common international, American, watercolor-paper, and canvas sizes—including A2–A6, Letter, Legal, Tabloid, popular inch-based canvases, and standard proportions. They can also draw a completely custom format by tracing their own surface. ArtGuide detects the surface, preserves its real dimensions and proportions, and provides controls for repositioning, rotating, tilting, banking, resizing, and fine alignment.

The experience includes 30 instructional composition guides:

• Foundations: Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Quadrants, Diagonal Method, Dynamic Symmetry, Golden Triangle, and Scaling Grid.
• Format-based construction: Nested Halves, Root Rectangle, and Rabatment.
• Visual flow and emphasis: S-Curve, Radial Burst, Steelyard, Concentric Rings, Horizon Ratios, and Rule of Odds.
• Perspective: One-Point Perspective, One-Point Room, One-Point Depth, Two-Point Perspective, and Three-Point Perspective.
• Design principles: Alignment, Visual Balance, Visual Hierarchy, White Space, Rhythm, Movement, Emphasis, and Proximity.

Each guide is adapted to the physical proportions of the selected surface rather than being stretched as a generic overlay. Adjustable guides—such as perspective, grids, and radial compositions—include controls for vanishing points, horizon position, divisions, opacity, rotation, and visibility. ArtGuide can also narrate a short lesson explaining how to use the active guide.

Artists can load a reference from the companion ArtGuide Reference Desk or upload their own image. The website (natashagubernov.com/artguide) includes categorized lettering, drawing, painting, and classic-art references, with additional filtering by portrait, square, or landscape format. Inside ArtGuide, the reference can be aligned to the real canvas, faded, hidden, blended, repositioned, and perspective-corrected by adjusting its corners.

AI features help artists develop and evaluate ideas directly within the experience. ArtGuide can:

• Generate photographic or traceable line-art references designed around the active composition guide.
• Generate subjects such as landscapes, still-life, portraits, figures, flowers, animals, trees, and interiors.
• Accept a custom subject through spoken or typed input.
• Produce new variations with different lighting, weather, viewpoints, and visual details.
• Analyze the selected reference in relation to the current guide and provide a focused composition critique.
• Read lessons and feedback aloud while the artist continues working.
• Generate a 3D still-life subject that can be placed beside the drawing surface, resized, viewed from different angles, and projected onto the paper.

ArtGuide also supports saving and recalling a working setup, repinning the experience to a surface, toggling guides and references independently, and hiding the interface for an unobstructed drawing view. Together, these features turn a physical workspace into an interactive art-learning environment for planning, observing, tracing, composing, and practicing.

Original lens post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/s/GL90DwKDHJ

This is the official release of my new Lens, SO-101 Toolbox. It provides a set of utilities to both assemble, inspect and operate the SO-101 robotic arm by HuggingFace.

The project also has a repository with a walkthrough for running it on your own real-world arm:
https://github.com/a-sumo/so101-helper

Link to Lens: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/f3862663be534dcaa8518858c9a2bbe1?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

For the past 16 months, we’ve been challenging ourselves to learn, build, and experiment with Spectacles. Now, it’s time for another month of creating and pushing what’s possible.

Create a Spectacles Lens and compete for one of 11 prizes from a $66,000 prize pool.

You already know the drill. You can submit in one of three categories:

➡️ New Lens: Build something from scratch
➡️ Lens Update: Take an existing Lens further
➡️ Open Source: Share your work and help others build on it

Head to Lens Studio, build something, and register your submission through the challenge website.

What will you build this time?

https://lenslist.co/spectacles-community-challenges

Curious what's out there beyond the Niantic demo itself, has anyone built something independent that uses the VPS?

There’s no way I could show everything this game has to offer in just 30 seconds - so check it out and see if you can beat my score! https://www.spectacles.com/lens/44ab8a0099c245e2b6c492c7e5a2b9e4?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Crystal Defense is a tabletop tower-defense game built for Snap Specs. Players place a miniature battlefield on a real table and defend a magical crystal through a twelve-wave campaign.

Core gameplay

• Place, rotate, and resize the game board on a real-world surface.
• Build towers during timed preparation phases.
• Earn essence by defeating enemies and clearing waves.
• Defend the crystal from enemies traveling along a glowing lane.
• Receive a bonus for starting waves before the preparation timer expires.
• Fight through twelve increasingly difficult waves and a final two-boss siege.

Towers

• Spire — rapid single-target attacks.
• Frost — slows groups of enemies.
• Mortar — powerful ground-only splash damage.
• Prism — an unlockable beam tower effective against armor.
• Every tower supports two upgrade levels.
• Towers can be selected, inspected, upgraded, and sold during play.

Enemies

• Crawlers — standard frontline enemies.
• Runners — fast-moving attackers.
• Brutes — slow, heavily armored units.
• Wisps — flying enemies that bypass ground-only Mortars.
• Devourers — powerful boss enemies.
• Revenants — corrupted versions of the player’s friends that begin appearing during Wave 8.

Social and Bitmoji features

• Up to four friends appear around the battlefield as Keepers.
• Keepers can be transformed into Revenants during later waves.
• Friends who have higher leaderboard scores make Revenants stronger.
• The Guardian provides a rechargeable board-slam ability that damages and stuns enemies.
• Bitmoji animations support idle, walking, attacking, celebrating, and damage reactions.

Progression and replayability

• Persistent best scores, highest wave, total kills, and daily records.
• Friends leaderboard with score submission and retrieval.
• Daily gameplay modifiers that alter enemy strength, speed, rewards, or starting resources.
• Four rotating battlefield layouts with different routes, rubble, and tower-placement opportunities.
• Earnable shards used to purchase permanent relics.
• Relics provide lasting bonuses such as additional starting essence, crystal health, and tower unlocks.
• Guided tutorial and reusable help panel.

Presentation and accessibility

• Fully spatial, table-mounted interface rather than a head-locked HUD.
• Animated portal, crystal, lane, projectiles, impact effects, and wave notifications.
• Spatial sound effects, ambient music, and event-specific audio.
• Remote 3D model loading keeps the initial Lens lightweight.
• Primitive fallback models ensure the game remains playable if an asset fails to download.
• Gameplay continues without Bitmoji, leaderboard access, optional animations, or remote assets.
• Performance-oriented pooling for enemies, projectiles, effects, materials, and audio.

Working on your final CLAD Summer Hackathon submission? This workshop could help you take it further.

For Week #4, the challenge is CREATE 🎨Build a spatial tool that helps people create something faster, easier, or more intuitively.

Join Andrew Douglas, SPECS Ambassador, for a practical session covering CLAD, examples, and approaches you can use when developing your Lens. There’ll also be a live demo and Q&A.

Use the session to refine your idea, discover new ways to use CLAD, and improve your submission before the final deadline.

📅 September 1 | 8:00–8:45 AM PDT

The deadline is September 6. If you’re aiming for the top spot, come along and see what you can add to your Lens 🔗

https://www.youtube.com/live/lA0T8A-6AzI

Introducing Seven Wonders

Learn more about the Seven Wonders of the World, right in your own space.

I revisited an old project and completely reimagined it, bringing it to Spectacles.

Pinch and drag to rotate planet Earth and see the location of each wonder around the globe. It supports inertial rotation, which makes the interaction feel more dynamic. Hover over a wonder and it scales up slightly; click it to see it up close and get more info, like its name, location, and the date it was built.

The wonders sit on a pedestal by default, like you're in a museum, but you can toggle that off and have them sit on your room's floor instead. They can also be rotated freely.

You can return to Earth view anytime to explore more, or cycle through the wonders using the previous and next arrows.

I spent a lot of time on the textures, UVs and materials, trying to make them look as realistic as possible even on low-poly models. All of them were painted in Substance Painter.

I'm really happy with the final result, let me know your thoughts!

Try it here:
https://www.spectacles.com/lens/c6cabd6fa7eb450e9229e7b3a5806fbb?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Hey everyone! We’ve been working on a major update for Smash AR, and we’re excited to finally share it with you.

The update brings three new additions:

🏓 Real-time multiplayer
🛍️ A shop where you can purchase new rackets and unlock custom tables
🏆 A leaderboard to compete with your friends

Real-time multiplayer was easily the most difficult and enjoyable part of this update to build. Unlike a turn-based game, table tennis requires both players to constantly exchange data while the ball is moving, without breaking the flow of the game.

Getting that real-time data transfer to work smoothly took a lot of experimentation. When we finally saw two players hitting the same ball back and forth in real time, it genuinely felt like a eureka moment!

We loved solving this challenge, and we’re excited to see how people play against each other.

You can try the new Smash AR update here: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/9d6be45c832e4eb8b7f76dbd9c506b2b?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Let us know what you think and which custom table and racket become your favourites!

This update makes Timmy's conversations multimodal and spatially aware and therefore more fun. When you ask what you are seeing, holding, or pointing at, Timmy combines a fresh Specs camera capture with Gemini vision, depth localization, and hand tracking to understand the intended object. Gesture context is linked to the spoken turn, allowing natural questions such as “What is this?” without menus or visible markers.

Conversation can now create personalized AR moments. When you express enthusiasm for something, Timmy can quietly turn that interest into a Snap3D gift while he keeps the conversation going. He later presents the generated item in a giftbox for you to open. Try to make him spoil the response, because he won't. :)

This update also improves continuity through refined personality guidance, reliable tool responses, echo protection, voice-activity detection, offline recovery, and automatic reconnection. Timmy’s existing memories now influence richer dialogue and personalized gifts, while every new environment provides different objects and conversations—creating a stronger recurring value.

I train boxing, and the part I always wanted was a coach calling the shots while I hit the bag. So I built it.

SPAR has two modes.

BAG MODE needs a real heavy bag. Look at it and the lens locks on, measures how far away it is and places nine targets on its surface, jab and cross at head height, hooks wide, body shots low. One lights up at a time and calls the punch. You hit it, hand tracking reads the punch, and it grades on speed: blue, yellow, red. Combos build from there.

PAD TRAINER needs nothing but space. The coach's mitts fly in on a beat, you follow the sequence, and between combos a bar comes at your head to duck and a wall comes in to slip.

Three two-minute rounds either way, live score and accuracy beside you, and a report at the end with your best streak and whether you beat your record.

The technical bits I'd actually want to read about if someone else posted this:

Finding the bag. Two instruments, and neither is enough alone. A World Query ray fan sweeps horizontally and returns a bag only when it finds a near surface WITH EDGES, which is what stops a wall passing as one**,** that gives real depth. A small CenterNet (128x256, ~680KB) trained on gym footage gives the bearing every frame, so the targets can follow the bag when it swings. Getting those two to agree meant solving the crop offset between the detector's frame and the fan's own measurement at runtime, by pairing a probe with a detection taken at the same moment.

Reading a punch. Harder than it sounds, and I got it wrong twice. Hand tracking fires an event on the first frame past 300 cm/s, which is not the frame of contact, so testing a single frame against a target radius asks the test to resolve a difference smaller than its own sampling error. It now scores against the last ~400ms of the fist's PATH. Then you have to tell a punch from the hand coming back, which sounds trivial and is not: measuring growth alone throws away every repeat punch (your fist never returns to the guard between two fast shots), and measuring distance alone accepts a retraction that hasn't finished yet. It takes both, plus the sign of the travel.

The catch volume isn't a sphere. I logged every miss as a vector across a gym session: lateral median 18cm off, vertical 1cm, depth 3cm. So the cued target is an ellipsoid in its own frame, wide on the axis a boxer is actually imprecise on, tight on the one that says you reached the bag.

Everything is built in code at runtime, the scene is one empty object with one script, because the submission build has to run on an older Lens Studio and staying portable was cheaper than porting later.

Try it out: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/13572729c5434a1c95db6f35c511471c?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Happy to answer any questions!

Been building this for Snap Spectacles and finally shipped it: Asset Forge.

Point your glasses at literally anything, pinch-frame it, and it becomes a downloadable PBR texture set. Or skip reality entirely, say a prompt and Gemini paints you a texture, or Snap3D sculpts a whole 3D model, live, in-world. Everything you make follows you to a web gallery you can pull up on any device.

What it actually does:

• Texture Grab pinch both hands, frame any real-world surface, release to capture a high-res still. No phone, no photogrammetry rig, just your hands.
• AI Texture Gen talk or type a prompt, Gemini paints you a texture (auto-fails over to OpenAI's gpt-image-1 if Gemini's having a bad day)
• AI Model Gen same deal but Snap3D sculpts an actual 3D mesh that spawns right in front of you, preview it in-world before you commit
• Zero-signup device linking your headset gets a persistent code the first time you ever open the Lens, no account, no login, just link that code on the web app
• Web companion turns raw captures into real PBR maps BaseColor / Normal / Roughness / AO / Height, generated client-side, right in your browser, download as a ZIP
• Everything's saved to your own library grid or radial-carousel browsing, realtime sync the second you confirm a capture on-device

It's all built on Spectacles' CameraModule + hand tracking + RemoteServiceGateway (Gemini/OpenAI/Snap3D) on the Lens side, and Supabase (via Snap Cloud) + a single-file no-build-step web app on the backend.

Try it:

• Lens: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/b48f1f7e97854a80a7cd8ca0a01adac4
• Web companion: assetforge.anothervivek.com
• Fully open source: https://github.com/anothervivek/Asset-Forge

Happy to answer questions about the AR capture pipeline, the PBR map generation, or anything about building for Spectacles in general.

QWERTY puts a real QWERTY board on the desk you already have. Poke the keys. Pinch-write a letter. Talk. Or tap thumb to finger for space, backspace, enter, and shift. The letters leave Spectacles and land on a screen you already use.

Try in two minutes: open the Lens, type the six-character code from the white PIN at keyboard.thegodspeeds.com, Connect, place a hand on a table, poke. No extra hardware. Experimental APIs stay off.

The Explorer path is Snap Cloud. An optional ESP32 HID path (Experimental) types into macOS or Windows as a real keyboard  that lives in the open-source repo, not in Lens Explorer.

World Query table placement (~50–55 cm, never in your face), on-device SnapML for pinch-write, Snap Cloud join codes, and full-hand chords (palm, gated fist, two-hand scale, thumb-to-finger).

Try it:
- Lens: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/fd6e21b5523d4336929468383bbe03d5?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01
- Companion: https://keyboard.thegodspeeds.com
  Type the six-character code from the white PIN, Connect, place a hand on a table, poke.

Open-source: https://github.com/The-Godspeeds/qwerty-spectacles

I wanted to submit two lenses but Registration button doesn’t work for me, nothing happens when I press it. It still hours left to the deadline and I don’t know why it wouldn’t be working or what I can do about it.

OpenBand lets a Lens be driven from the wrist when your hands are not free to come up: on a train, carrying something, or resting on a table where raising them would be conspicuous. Hand tracking stays live the whole time, so this runs in parallel rather than instead.

Three gestures, and that is the entire vocabulary:

- pinch: forward, next, select

- double pinch: back

- pinch, hold, and roll the forearm or wrist: scroll or slider, one step per detent

The part that may interest this sub: SIK reserves `InteractorInputType.CustomController`. It is declared in `Interactor.ts`, included in `All`, and referenced nowhere else in the framework, so nothing has claimed it. OpenBand claims that slot, which means a stock UI Kit `RectangleButton` receives hover, trigger and cancel through the same `InteractionManager` a hand goes through. No bespoke input path, and UI code does not change.

SIK has no focus model. A pointing ray resolves its own target, and a wrist has neither ray nor fingertip, so there is a small navigation group on top: an ordered list, an index, and clamping rather than wrapping, because eyes-free you cannot tell you have gone all the way round.

Detection runs on the watch itself (six-axis motion at 100 Hz, DSP impulse detector). Only one small JSON object per gesture ever leaves the wrist.

The watch app 'OpenBand Gesture Link' is watchOS, built for Apple Watch. The iPhone sits in the path for two platform reasons rather than by preference: watchOS apps cannot advertise as a Bluetooth LE peripheral and the Spectacles BLE stack is central-only, so neither side can open a link to the other; and watchOS has no WebSocket, since TN3135 limits third-party watch apps to URLSession HTTP(S).

You can try it with no hardware at all. The relay is deployed, and a replay tool emits the same frames the wrist would have sent:

cd relay

bun run replay --room ABC123 --url wss://openband-relay.fly.dev

Open source, MIT. The honest limits are in the README: no trained model ships, so there is no clench in a stock build; no device latency or accuracy numbers are claimed because they have not been measured on hardware; and walking is not a first-class condition yet.

https://github.com/bgeuze/openband

What's This?
My favorite thing about building for Snap Spectacles is the journey it takes me on. I always learn way more than I set out to, and I often end up in places I never expected. This build was no different. It started as a project about converting poems into trees, but soon morphed into an exploration of the ancient art of bonsai.

I’ve always been fascinated by those mystical miniature trees, but I’ve also been too intimidated to try growing one myself. This project gave me a chance to start learning more about the process, and it reminded me that, like so many things in life, the journey is the destination. Bonsai is all about intention, patience, and creative expression through the natural world.

This Lens brings that wonderful experience into augmented reality. Drop a seed into a pot, and from there, everything is done with a pinch: hold a branch to pour growth into it, grab and drag to wire it into shape like a real bonsai, or snip away wood and foliage.

There’s no undo. Cuts are permanent, just like with real bonsai, so every tree becomes a record of the choices you made. Take your time, the garden saves every move as you make it, so you can walk away mid-session and pick up right where you left off.

And because each tree is stored as its complete history, the Showcase lets you do my favorite thing: watch shared trees regrow move by move, right in front of you.

Why This?
Deep Stress Relief, Connection to Nature, Patience and Perspective, Creative Expression.

Try This:
https://www.spectacles.com/lens/a5394f7497694458b39d49edafb127dc?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Notable Features
1. Rigged Procedural Trees: every tree is a runtime skeleton: growing, bending and cutting are bone transforms, so a tree grows at a steady 60 fps with no mesh rebuilds.

1. Trees are Replay-able: each tree is an append-only list of plant / grow / sprout / bend / cut / trim events, so saving, resuming, sharing and replaying are all the same event log.

2. Snap Cloud Showcase: publish your tree to a public Showcase backed by Supabase, browse other people's trees as spinning 3D miniatures, and open any of them to watch it regrow. Nothing but the event log is ever stored.

3. One Pinch and Three Modes: grow with a pinch that pours energy into a branch and everything past it, bend with a grab and drag like wiring a real bonsai, and manicure with a tap to cut wood and foliage, all previewed live under your hand before anything commits.

4. Growth Behaves Like a Plant: each part grows from its own accumulated energy, so holding the trunk grows the whole tree but holding a twig grows only that twig, bends distribute rotation across every joint like real branches, cuts are permanent but the stub can still thicken and sprout again.

5. No Textures: bark, ceramic glaze with drips, and soil with grains and moss, are all procedural.

6. Variety: Three types of trees: Juniper, Maple, and Pine. Five types of pots, each with its own glaze. All procedural.

7. Jukebox: one button cycles Silence, Music, and Ambient audio. Each pool shuffles without repeats and resumes where it left off when you come back.

Platform Findings
Skinned meshes built with MeshBuilder render on the display but never appear in a Spectacles video capture.

Original - https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1vwcswa/volleymate_a_ball_tracking_game_built_with_clad/

VolleyMate turns the wall you already kick or throw a ball against into a target you can actually see. The glasses draw the game on the wall and anchor it there permanently. A phone on a tripod watches the ball and detects each bounce, and the glasses score it where it really landed, usually within a couple of centimetres.

It works with pretty much any ball that bounces and has a colour: football, pickball, basketball, tennis, squash, padel, a bouncy ball from the corner shop. You tap the ball once in the camera view to lock its colour and the size filter tunes itself.

There are ten games on the wall right now: free practice with a live heat map of where your shots land (plus a ghost of your last session underneath), a rally mode with streaks and rising audio pitch per hit, Simon-style sequence, tic tac toe, territory painting for two players, and a few more. Sessions get logged, so both the glasses and the web app show progress over time: grouping, consistency, rally length, a weekly goal. There's also a coach layer that reads the session and tells you things like "you pull left under pressure" out loud when you stop.

The target is a spatial anchor, so once you place it the wall remembers it: walk back in a week later, look at the same spot, and your court is already there with your saved setup and stats attached.

Two audiences I think this actually fits:

Venues. This is honestly where it makes the most sense. The single-phone setup is the compromise version. A venue could pre-place two fixed cameras at known angles, calibrate them once, and get properly accurate 3D bounce positions with none of the tripod faff. Spatial anchors already mean the target stays on the wall between sessions, so a squash court or a gym wall could just have this running.

People with equipment. If you already have Spectacles and a spare phone, the whole thing works today. Phone does the seeing, glasses do the showing, a small cloud backend pairs them with a 4-letter code.

The web companion controls most of it: ball setup, wall placement and saving, board size, players, launching games, calibration, progress graphs. The glasses stay hands-free. I like this set up as it takes a huge load of off the glasses making it not only optimised but more importanntly not get too hot, for a device your wearing while playing sports this is key.

there's still UX work before this is a release product. Calibration takes a minute to learn, and single-camera accuracy has a physics floor of roughly half the ball's travel between frames. So will continue to work on it - have partnered with a local indoor tennis court who are wanting to do ball tracking so hopefully can record this soon at a proper venue!

Web companion: volleymate-app.vercel.app

https://github.com/ohistudio/volleymate

Big Marble is back and better than ever! Introducing real-time multiplayer, AI opponents, improved VFX and UI, tons more levels, scalable worlds, solo progression, and a completely overhauled physics system built for crazy multiplayer performance.

Now you can battle your friends in the same room or across the planet. It’s a total blast! New levels ramp up the difficulty, AI opponents make single-player action way too fun, and improved visuals make everything feel more luxe.

But the biggest change is the physics simulation. To make multiplayer work at the fast pace the game demands, I had to completely rework the system.

The new physics simulation is fully deterministic and runs over Supabase Realtime. Each simulation runs bit-identically on every player’s device. That means players don’t stream positions at all, clients only exchange shots and heartbeats.

Rollback handles latency the way modern games do: your shot lands instantly, while your opponent’s shot is inserted into history and replayed. The result is a nearly seamless multiplayer match that feels incredible to play.

Why This:
Fun, stress relief, connection with friends, boredom.

Try This:
https://www.spectacles.com/lens/da52da796fe44e7eb9f4d7119cddb427?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Notable Features:

• Versus Mode with real opponents, both human and AI-powered.
• Deterministic physics engine with lockstep and rollback, nearly 20x more performant.
• Slope and edge aware AI opponent with a heuristic brain.
• Scalable worlds let you play on your lap or out on your lawn.
• Over 25 new boards, designed and play-tested for maximum fun.
• Solo progression with a new level selection carousel.
• Opponent avatars for real-time matches.
• New speed trails and spawn effects add extra polish.
• Improved UI and feedback make interactions easier and more trustworthy.

Bonus points to anyone who knows the inspiration for the voice-over character.

How do think people will surf the web when AR will be more accessible/available?

How browsers will works between phones and AR glasses?

That’s the research question behind this prototype.

The goal is to empower the user by using the most powerful app on your phone: your browser. Because nearly everything can be done inside. A lot of the apps you have today on your phone is only a web app bundled with a browser.

This cross-device browsing experience has the following features:

- You can approximate the position of your phone in your hand with an easy calibration process: pinch the button under your phone, this will display an image that will be tracked by the Spectacles. Done. And know, your phone position is approximated from your tracked hand holding the phone.

- You can offload content by putting your thumb on the floating button, then swipe it to get it on the side of your phone, anchored to it.

- You can also select the content by tapping multiple time before swiping to get more content (technically the parent DOM element with content inside)

- You can also long tap to select all elements that are of the same type. If they’re links, it’s transformed into a table of content to navigate on your phone.

- You can even do free screenshot by dragging your screen to copy-paste without relation to the original web formatting.

- The offloaded content can be either attached to your phone or put directly in the world (the spectacles prototype does not support anchoring to your head yet)

- You can move it freely or delete it by pinching the cross button on the top left corner, or change its size by dragging a corner.

- You can also double tap the floating button to open the webpage in spectacles at the same scrolling place (_with some drawbacks, like if you’re not logged or if the flow of the original page was changed by some interaction_)

Here is the research paper that was born from this research: https://hal.science/hal-05596672v1/file/AirWeb_CHI26.pdf - another paper coming soon about trade-offs during real development of augmented mobile web browsing (https://ilda.gitlabpages.inria.fr/airweb-probes/)

You can try it out now as it is open-source!

https://gitlab.inria.fr/ilda/airweb-probes/-/tree/main/Spectacles?ref_type=heads

For now, this prototype works in Firefox Android Nightly, as we need an extension running in the browser. To communicate between the browser and the spectacles, a server is hosted on the phone with Termux.

I can’t wait to see cross-browsing working on Specs, as I expect hand tracking will be even more robust and webviews more optimized!

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Full citation to the original paper:

Mengfei Gao, Caroline Appert, Ludovic David, and Emmanuel Pietriga. 2026. AiRWeb: Using AR to Extend Web Browsing Beyond Handheld Screens. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 81, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798342

Whenabouts is a time-travel dig for Snap Specs. Stand anywhere, reach out your hand, and the ground deals you what really existed there: dinosaurs, sea monsters, ice age giants, ancient plants, and human history too, all drawn from real fossil records and grounded by AI. Fifteen guides with their own voices and eras narrate what you find, open portals that stage each creature life-size in your actual room (sea reptiles flood your floor, flyers take to your ceiling), and quiz you on what you've learned. Every find mints as a trading card with rarity, stats and the photo of the moment you found it. Build a collection, battle a friend with a four-letter code, bury Time Capsules and dig them back up, and pin every place you've explored to a Memory Wall of polaroids. Come back tomorrow or walk somewhere new, and there's always another pack to open. Learn by being there: your finds are linked to your memories.

The update -

A while back I shared Whenabouts, my Specs Lens that digs up what really lived where you're standing (real fossil records + AI). The first version was one guide, a floating cloud of finds and a bare-bones Top Trumps. It's now a whole game.

The world

- 15 guides, each with their own voice, era, personality and unlock progression (sea monsters, ice age, ancient plants, a cranky caveman who lived through all of it)

- It's not just prehistoric creatures any more: there are guides for human history too. Writing this from Thailand, I kept wondering what this exact street was like a few hundred years ago, and Whenabouts had plenty: traders, kingdoms, everyday life, told by the guides as scenes staged in your actual room

- Every dig is like opening a booster pack, except the pack is the ground under your feet. Same spot deals the same spread all day, new day or new place means a new pack

- Environment aware portals: the guide researches where a creature actually lived, so sea reptiles flood the lower half of your room with water and caustics, flyers stay airborne, land animals keep your floor dry. Your actual room stays your room

It's a real TCG now

- Finds mint as cards with rarity (common, uncommon, rare, legendary), rolled when you save them, cosmetic only so the stats stay honest

- Rarity FX borrowed from the portal language: living Perlin rings, glints, gold lava churn on legendaries

- Collection is a proper grid: three tiles a row with name, era, where and when you found it, rarity tabs, sort, search

- Battle mode: proper Top Trumps rules, winner picks, war on draws, card backs, shuffles, big YOU WIN stamps. Play solo or share a 4 letter code with a friend and share your card libaries.

New toys

- Time Capsules: a loot box you place with your gaze, bury, dig up with your hands, then catch the loot floating out of the pit

- Memory Wall: every place you've dug gets a wall of polaroids of your actual finds

- Passport map with field trips (dig somewhere you're not, for coins)

- Web companion: pair code on your Profile opens your collection in any browser

- Quests, quizzes with your guide reacting, streaks, a coin economy

Social

- Explorers page on your Profile: friends and world leaderboards ranked by XP, with everyone's Bitmoji on their row

- A live feed of what other explorers just dug up ("Maya found a Rare Diplodocus at Jurassic Coast")

- All opt-in: nothing leaves your device until you turn on Share finds, and you can browse the boards without sharing

Feel

- One UX rule for the whole update: nothing should be more than two clicks away

- Reach out to connect with the past: hold your palm out, a charge glows in your hand, rings pulse off it, then the finds burst out

- Frame photos with a two hand pinch and the frame flies out to become the portal

- Every panel grabs and moves, everything billboards, juice everywhere (card flips, hops, shuffles, confetti)

What everybody gets wrong about geese: they just need a little love and they'll be your friends forever.

So that's the game. Rubber duckies get thrown at your head and you duck. When an angry goose flies at you, you hug it instead. The gameplay is in the name.

Hug one and it drops the attitude, becomes your friend, and starts circling your feet. By the end you're standing in a flock in your living room.

I raised geese as a kid. They imprinted on me, followed me around the yard, and left dead water moccasins on our doorstep. Expert hunters looking for a pat on the head. This one's for them.

https://www.spectacles.com/lens/f782a83a9b7f4ba7934588bbddb55b6b?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01 

⏰This is the final call to take part in the CLAD Summer Hackathon! 

Week #4 challenge is here: CREATE 🎨 Now, we’re challenging you to build a spatial tool that helps SPECS users create something faster, easier, or more intuitively.

This one is intentionally open-ended. Think about an existing creative workflow and ask: what could be different if the tools lived in your space? 

You have until 🗓️September 6 to submit. Put CLAD to the test, build a working Lens for SPECS with a prompt, and compete for up to $1,000.
One final challenge. What will you build? 🔗

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

Try it now on Spectacles 2024 — or later on the new SPECS!

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