u/bobarke2000

This weekend, I put together another ridiculous app that replicates the final moment of glory from the legendary PC game. I didn't even build the whole game, just the final, exhilarating moment of victory.

So I can fire up this app, put the last king on the pile and watch my living room fill up with the beautiful chaos of hundreds (thousands???) of pixel-art playing cards, bouncing off all of my walls, furniture, and any small children or dogs that happen to be nearby.

WorldMesh makes a quick 3D scan of my space so it knows where everything is, and then it uses that virtual map to bring old-school solitaire into 2026.

On another note, this will be my last Spectacles demo for a bit. My work is moving into different spaces and I don't have as much time for weird demos as I used to. But I want to thank the team and community here, it's been so much fun meeting and collaborating with y'all, attending events and learning a ton along the way. Big thanks to u/jbmcculloch u/agrancini-sc and the entire u/spectacles_team for the support—you guys do a fantastic job with this community.

Until next time!

Bob

Another weekend, another ridiculous way to use Spectacles: a HUD that tells me how hungry my dog is.

It runs a YOLOv7-tiny object detection model through Lens Studio's SnapML, filtered to the 'dog' class.

The feeding data comes from an earlier project — a Bluetooth sensor on our dogfood container that detects motion and logs each feeding to the web. The Spectacles lens reads that log and turns it into a 3D meter (like a health bar) that follows her around whenever she's in view.

As always, Spectacles is the most fun way to prototype stuff like this in a few hours, even for someone like me who couldn't do any of this without AI's help.

Second Screen is an app that lets me watch my favorite shows, no matter what other people are watching. It detects the location of our TV and displays my video just above it. It’s got a remote so I can flip through all the best shows in history. And I can watch what I want even if my family wants to watch something else.

This is obviously an absurd way to solve a weird problem, but it was a lot of fun to build. I used the pre-built ML model to detect where a TV is in the room. Then Claude Code and I layered on Spectacles' hand-tracking so a 3D remote appears in your palm when you open it—the remote can be tapped with your other hand to change the content displayed.

Also I designed the logo on my own, and used AI and After Effects to animate it.