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. This hackathon teaches you how to decide what is worth building and how it should feel, as coding agents can now build a working Lens from a good description.
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. 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.
Participants will install the Devpost Learn skill pack in their 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.
Prizes: $2,500 in prizes each round. First place takes $1,250, second place takes $750, and third place takes $500. Every winner gets a feature in the Devpost newsletter and on Devpost's socials. Everyone who submits an eligible project gets a Devpost Learn badge and a special role in the Devpost Discord.
Requirements: - Build a new Lens for SPECS (Snap's AR glasses), planned with the Devpost Learn skill pack and built by an AI coding agent through CLAD in Lens Studio. - The project must be started during the submission period; old code is not allowed. - The repo must include planning docs written by the skill pack and the Lens Studio project files. - The Lens must run in the Lens Studio preview; owning SPECS glasses is not required.
Submission Requirements: - A demo video (public on YouTube, under 3 minutes) showing the Lens working, ideally a screen recording of the Lens Studio preview. - A public repo on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket including the Lens Studio project files and the devpost folder. - A short description of what the Lens does, who it is for, and what was learned.