Spectacles Community Challenge #17: Winners Announcement
What can you do when digital tools become part of the world around you? The winners of Spectacles Community Challenge #17 offer plenty of ideas, from designing garments and shaping virtual clay to supporting conversations and controlling a robot hand.
Across the New Lens, Lens Update, and Open Source categories, developers explored new interactions, improved existing projects, and shared tools for others to build on – competing for a prize of the $66,000 prize pool.
Congratulations to all the winners! 👏
Explore the winners of Spectacles Community Challenge #17 ⤵️
❗P.S. Click on any 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: Pattern Atelier by Florencia Raffa & Elsa Farrokhzad
Pattern Atelier turns Spectacles into a garment design assistant that brings sewing patterns into AR. Users can start with any garment and customize its fit, silhouette, length, fabric, and construction, with an in-glasses assistant helping refine the design. The resulting pattern can be placed and pinned on a real table, allowing users to explore changes before cutting fabric.
2nd Place: After Hello by Aadarsh Pandey
After Hello turns Spectacles into a shared conversation tool with ASL-to-English translation and speech captions. Two wearers can connect through a room code, choose Sign or Speak, and read captions of each other’s responses, with the option to remove mistaken signing captions within 15 seconds.
With one pair of glasses, users can view proposed English captions while facing someone signing in ASL. Caption size, contrast, and motion are adjustable, while AI-generated translations may need to be checked together for accuracy.
3rd Place: Pottery AR by Natasha Gubernov
Pottery AR turns Spectacles into a virtual pottery studio where users can shape clay with one or both hands, choose a glaze, and fire their creations in a kiln.
Users can save their favourite pots, explore community creations on a shared shelf, and download their work as glTF files through a companion website. Unwanted pots can be taken off the shelf and smashed on the floor.
Runner up: Wondermarks by Daria LASTXLR
Wondermarks turns Spectacles into a mixed-reality geography game where users can pick up famous landmarks, examine them for clues, and try to place them in their real-world locations on a world map.
Runner up: Jurnee by Steven Wolpe
Jurnee turns Spectacles into a personal AR journal where users can write, draw, paint, and capture photos to preserve memories in their space. Users can summon the journal into their hands, turn its pages, and pull photos into spatial view, with an interactive butterfly guide that understands what they’ve created.
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: TripOptic by the Persische Team (Elsa Farrokhzad & Forouzan Salsabili)
TripOptic’s latest update introduces a redesigned AR interface with capsules, detail panels, and a portal view, alongside a street map users can open with a pinch.
Packing now includes shopping tiles and camera scan integration, while voice re-planning lets users adjust their trip as the draft changes. GPS and heavier content load when relevant sections are opened, and card images now draw on Wikipedia and RemoteMedia alongside AI-generated visuals.
2nd Place: Lot Organizer by Ruya Baraz
Lot Organizer’s latest update adds versioned condition reports that preserve an artwork’s inspection history, with AI Assist flagging new defects and each save summarising what has changed. Remote experts can join through a browser using a one-time code, point at the artwork, and add or move pins live.
Improved AI analysis places suggestions more precisely on the artwork, while a redesigned spatial interface adds a pin-centred dial, draggable controls, and voice summaries of recognised lots, previous inspections, and saved reports.
3rd Place: Dartsmate by Liam Mason
DartsMate’s latest update expands its AR arcade to 80 games, including 21 portal worlds behind the dartboard. Dart angle now shapes gameplay, letting players hook bowling balls, curl shuffleboard pucks, and bend frisbee throws, while a coach uses it to assess their release.
Bitmoji joins the action, a darts caller announces scores, and online matches display friends’ throws as ghost darts. Players can also challenge televised nine-darters, progress from pub games to professional competition, and launch games by voice.
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: SpecsGrip by Amir Mohideen Basheer Khan
SpecsGrip turns Spectacles into a controller for a Tesollo Delto DG-5F robot hand, letting users move all 20 joints through their own hand movements in real time.
The Lens tracks either hand and switches automatically between them, with a built-in setup checklist and a spatial debugging panel to help users get started and monitor the connection.
2nd Place: Pattern Atellier by Elsa Farrokhzad & Florencia Raffa
Pattern Atelier turns Spectacles into an AI sewing atelier where users can start from any garment and customize its fit and style with an assistant. The Lens places a full-scale, cut-ready sewing pattern directly onto fabric, helping users move from an idea to cutting their first garment or preparing a sample.
3rd Place: Spatial Mapper by Kavin Kumar
Spatial Mapper turns Spectacles into a spatial projection mapping tool for use with a real projector. Users can point at the floor to mark the projector’s position, then trace the edge of its projected light point by point. Pinching the first point again closes the outline into a shape.
What Will You Build Next?
This round’s winners show how everyday interests and challenges can become starting points for spatial experiences. Sewing, pottery, travel, conversation – each offers something different to explore when you bring it into AR.
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone who took part in Spectacles Community Challenge #17! Whether you’re trying an unfamiliar tool, revisiting an existing Lens, or sharing your code with other developers, we hope these projects inspire your next experiment. We can’t wait to see what you build next.
