E'lon
Design an augmented reality app for glasses, and let an AI coding agent build it in Lens Studio. You don't need the glasses, because everything runs in Lens Studio's preview on your laptop. You'll get a short concept video, a skill pack for your coding agent, a live build session, and a live project review. $2,500 in prizes each round.
ABOUT THE CHALLENGE
Screens won't be the only place we use computers. Glasses are coming, and building for them is different from building for a laptop or a phone.
Most first tries at AR end up as a website floating in front of your face. Good AR does things a laptop can't do:
It shares your view.
The camera sees what you see, so the app can respond to it.
It draws in the world.
Content sits on the table, over the stove, at real size, right where it belongs.
It leaves your body free.
Your hands stay available and your eyes stay up, so you can keep doing the real thing.
Coding agents can now build a working Lens from a good description. So the hard part is deciding what's worth building and how it should feel. That's what this hackathon teaches.
You'll install our
Devpost Learn skill pack
in your coding agent. It interviews you about your idea, checks it against AR design best practices, and writes a design brief. Then Snap's
CLAD
agents build the Lens in Lens Studio from that brief, and you try it in the preview. You'll finish with a working Lens, the plan behind it, and a way of thinking about AR you can use on every project after this one.
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Requirements
WHAT TO BUILD
A new Lens for SPECS, planned with the Devpost Learn skill pack and built by an AI coding agent through CLAD in Lens Studio. Don't have an idea? The skill pack will interview one out of you.
Requirements:
New project.
Started during the submission period. Old ideas are fine, old code is not.
Planned with the skill pack.
Your repo should include the planning docs the skill pack writes to the devpost folder.
Built with CLAD.
Your coding agent builds the Lens in Lens Studio through the CLAD plugin and the Lens Studio MCP.
Runs in the Lens Studio preview.
You don't need SPECS glasses.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
A demo video
, public on YouTube, that shows your Lens working. Keep it under 3 minutes. A screen recording of the Lens Studio preview is perfect. If you can, also talk about your design process.
A public repo
on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. It should include your Lens Studio project files and the devpost folder.
A short description:
what your Lens does, who it's for, and what you learned.
Reviewers won't clone or run your project, so the video has to show it working.
Judging Criteria
Design
Does the project deliver a complete, coherent product experience, not just a technical proof of concept?
Technical Implementation
How well is the project built and how well did it use CLAD, Lens Studio, and the Lens Studio MCP?
Innovation/Idea
How creative and novel is the concept and does the project differ from existing concepts?
Presentation
Does the video clearly demonstrate the project working end-to-end? Does the pitch communicate what problem is solved, who it's for, and why it matters? Is the overall presentation easy to follow?