Spectacles Community Challenge #13: Winners Announcement
Wearable technology continues to find its place in our everyday lives, and we’re proud that the Spectacles Community Challenge plays a part in making that future a reality. Every month, developers bring incredible dedication, talent, and creativity to their submissions, helping the community grow, evolve, and thrive.
Each new use case is proof of what’s possible when talented, skilled, and open-minded creators come together. That’s where true innovation happens.
Congratulations to all of this month’s winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted a Lens. Keep building, keep exploring, and keep surprising us with your endless creativity!
See the winners of Spectacles Community Challenge #13 below ⤵️
❗P.S. Click on a Lens tile to open it and try it yourself!
New Lens Category
⭐ A category that pushes you to experiment with unfamiliar tools, features, and ideas, turning curiosity into innovation to create new, engaging Lenses.
1st Place: Wi‑Fi Speed by Inna Horobchuk
Wi-Fi Speed is a Spectacles Lens that helps users optimize Wi-Fi router placement by measuring and visualizing real download speeds throughout their environment.
As users move through a space, the Lens maps network performance in real time, allowing them to inspect individual locations, compare signal quality, identify dead zones, and navigate toward the strongest connection using intuitive spatial feedback.
2nd Place: TransitView NL by Pieter Siekerman
TransitView NL is a Spectacles Lens that brings public transport data from the Netherlands into an immersive spatial interface, allowing users to explore real-time timetables and routes directly within their environment.
The Lens also includes a demo mode that simulates locations in Amsterdam, enabling users outside the Netherlands to experience the functionality and interact with transit information as if they were at a local stop.
3rd Place: Railroad Builder By Daria LASTXLR
Railroad Builder is a Spectacles Lens that allows users to construct custom train layouts using track pieces, locomotives, wagons, and themed decorations. Through intuitive hand interactions, users can assemble rail networks piece by piece and watch their trains come to life, traveling along the exact routes they have created within their environment.
Runner up: Routines by Danny Marree
Routines is a Spectacles Lens that acts as a spatial home operating system for building and maintaining healthy habits.
The Lens combines tools such as journaling, body metrics tracking, calorie monitoring, exercise progression, and daily nutrition management with an AI assistant that can answer questions using the user’s stored data and inputs. Persistent spatial panels remain anchored in their designated locations, creating a personalized environment that stays organized across sessions.
Runner up: Globe Trotter by Nithin Shankar
Globe Trotter is a Spectacles Lens designed to simplify cash transactions while traveling by helping users identify, count, and track foreign currency in real time.
The Lens can scan invoices or accept manually entered amounts, verify cash as it is presented, and maintain a transaction history, while additional utilities such as world time tracking support travelers across different regions. By combining on-device optical detection with contextual AI interactions, Globe Trotter delivers a seamless and responsive experience while minimizing unnecessary cloud requests.
Lens Update Category
⭐ The Lens Update category invites you to revisit and enhance an already published Lenses, adding new features or refinements to unlock monetization and gain extra visibility.
1st Place: Artel by Yegor Ryabtsov
Artel is a Spectacles Lens that transforms the physical world into a collaborative AR canvas, allowing users to create 3D drawings and spatial artwork with their hands.
The update introduces connected multiplayer creation, enabling users to draw, place and manipulate 3D objects together in real time through Connected Lens sessions powered by Sync Kit. Shared scenes persist for late joiners, collaborative editing actions synchronize across participants, and user indicators make it easy to see who is currently contributing to the experience.
2nd Place: The Heist by the GrowPile Team (Nikola Kazakov & Manuel Nikolov)
The Heist is a multiplayer puzzle game for Spectacles that challenges players to disarm and loot a virtual safe while receiving guidance from friends joining through mobile devices in real time.
This latest update introduces a complete TypeScript rewrite aligned with Spectacles development best practices, alongside a new UIKit-powered interface, improved camera streaming performance, and a range of bug fixes and optimizations that enhance the overall multiplayer experience.
3rd Place: Vector Fields by Armand Sumo
Vector Fields is a Spectacles Lens that combines interactive education with real-world data to help users explore the theory and behavior of vector fields in spatial computing.
The experience visualizes phenomena such as gravitational fields, magnetic dipoles, aerodynamic airflow, and Earth’s wind patterns using sources including NASA trajectory data and real-time NOAA weather information, while supporting multiple 2D and 3D visualization modes, custom color maps, and an updated navigation system inspired by recent XR interaction research.
Open Source Category
⭐ This category welcomes open-source Lenses on GitHub, including those using Experimental APIs, giving you the freedom to push boundaries and break new ground without requiring Lens Explorer publication.
1st Place: AirTouch by Krunal MB Gediya
AirTouch is an open-source Spectacles Lens that transforms any laptop display into a spatial touchscreen by projecting a calibrated virtual screen into midair. Using a simple four-corner pinch calibration, users define the screen plane and can then interact with their Mac or Windows machine through hand tracking, enabling actions like clicking, dragging, scrolling, and moving windows directly in space.
The system combines Spectacles hand tracking with plane projection, WebSocket streaming, and a companion desktop app to deliver a hardware-free, spatial interaction layer for traditional computing workflows.
2nd Place: Lumia Combat by Sylvan Shen
Lumia Combat is a Spectacles Lens that turns color theory into a kinetic gameplay experience using real-world input from BLE devices and Philips Hue lighting. Players harvest colors from objects in their environment and engage in a reactive combat system where they must strike or defend against Lumia by using complementary or matching hues.
The experience blends spatial interaction, ambient lighting systems, and real-time color dynamics, with a virtual light mode planned for future updates.
3rd Place: Super Seller by the Sunflovr Team (Ines Hilz & Andrew Douglas)
Super Seller is an open-source Spectacles Lens that enables users to list items directly to eBay from Spectacles. It integrates Authkit for account linking, a custom Snap Cloud backend for data processing, and a Remote Service Gateway that generates listing titles and descriptions, while also serving as a flexible template for extending the workflow to other e-commerce platforms and marketplaces.
Every Challenge continues to show just how much potential there is in wearable computing when Developers are given the freedom to experiment, explore, and share their ideas. Whether you’re building your first Spectacles Lens or refining an ambitious concept you’ve been thinking about for months, the Spectacles Community Challenge is your opportunity to create, learn, and inspire others along the way.
We can’t wait to see what you build next – so start prototyping, keep pushing yourself, and submit your Lens for the next challenge. The future of spatial computing is being shaped by this Community, and your idea could be part of it 👏
