Snap Hosts First Spectacles Bootcamp for 45 AR Developers Ahead of June AWE

2 articles · Updated · newsroom.snap.com · May 11

45 Spectacles developers gathered at Snap’s Santa Monica headquarters last month for the company’s first in-person bootcamp, giving top AR creators direct access to the engineering teams behind the platform.
The day focused on what developers had asked for most: deeper technical guidance on SnapOS, sparse mapping, AI-native Lens development, spatial UI performance, Snap Cloud, and the SIK and UI Kit.
Developers from countries including Zambia, Sweden and Belgium used the event to demo projects, exchange ideas in person and discuss building for Spectacles and the upcoming SPECS platform.
June’s AWE conference is Snap’s next milestone, where it plans to share more about SPECS, its developer program and the broader roadmap for its AR community.

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