This interview with Spectacles Community Manager Jesse McCulloch kicks off my coverage of Snap's Developer Conference called Lensfest. Snap is gearing up for a consumer release of their Snap Specs AR glasses some time next year, and they've been busy frequently updating their underlying operating system and platform tools like Lens Studio. There were no new announcements or reveals about the details of the Snap Specs that have been shared yet, but I did cover the biggest announcements at Lensfest throughout this series and in this interview with McCulloch.
I also had a chance to interview five different Snap employees exploring different aspects of their AR strategy, and I also interviewed some AR developers in from the Snap ecosystem. Snap brought me down to also cover the 25-hour Lensathon, and I had a chance to be a judge for the 10 different Spectacles-based hackathon projects, and so I'll be featuring the top 3 finalists in the series. I also interviewed the AR game developers from DB Creations, as well as the latest AI assistant, guided tour demo from Niantic Spatial.
Here is a list of the 11 episodes and nearly 7 hours of coverage from Snap's Lensfest:
#1667: Kickoff of Snap Lensfest 2025 Coverage & SnapOS 2.0 Announcements
#1668: Snap Co-Founders Community Q&A about Specs 2026 Launch Plan
#1669: Snap's Resh Sidhu on the Future of AR Commerce & Developer-Centered Innovation
#1670: Snapchat's Embodied Gaming Innovations with AR Developer Relations Head
#1671: Reflecting on Snap's AR Platform & Developer Tools Past and Future with Terek Judi
#1672: Niantic Spatial's Project Jade Demo Shows Latest Location-Aware, AI Tour Guide Innovations
#1673: Snap Lensfest Announcement Reflections from AR Gaming Studio DB Creations
#1674: 3rd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Fireside Tales Collaborative Storytelling with GenAI
#1675: 2nd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: CartDB Barcode-Scanning Nutrition App
#1676: 1st Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Decisionator Object-Detection AI Decision-Maker
#1677: Snap's AR Developer Relations Plan for 2026 Specs Consumer Launch with Joe Darko
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