// 2026.06.02

Six Lens Studio Assets to Level Up Your Spectacles Projects

10:00 JST

The Lens Studio Asset Library ships with far more than most projects ever use, and the components that save the most time are easy to scroll past. AR developer Lafiya Watson of Bad Chick Studios collected six of them in a short walkthrough — 6 Lens Studio Assets to Level Up Your Spectacles Projects — each one an off-the-shelf building block that removes boilerplate from a Snap Spectacles Lens. For a 2.5-day hackathon, these are the kind of components that turn a prototype into a finished demo without writing the plumbing yourself.

All six install from the Asset Library inside Lens Studio: open Window → Asset Library, then add each component to your project.

The six assets

Surface Placement — Lets the wearer find a spot in their space and lock the experience in place, establishing a fixed world anchor before content appears. The standard opening move for a seated or tabletop Lens.

Spectacles 3D Hand Hints — Animated 3D hands that demonstrate gestures to the wearer — for example, showing exactly how to pinch to press a button. A low-effort way to onboard users who have never worn the glasses.

Spectacles UI Kit — Ready-made UI components designed for Spectacles, including the button component used to drive interactions. Drop-in widgets that match the platform’s spatial design language.

Interactable Helper — Handles the interaction response — wiring a button press through to the action it triggers — so input connects to behaviour without hand-built event plumbing. Works alongside the Spectacles Interaction Kit (SIK).

Access Components — Controls material and visual properties from script, for instance toggling an object’s colour on each press. The hook for making a scene respond dynamically to input.

Marker Tracking — Recognises a specific image and triggers content from it — in the demo, an animated character appears overlaid on a piece of artwork when the marker is detected. The basis for poster-, card-, or artwork-activated AR.

See them working together

Watson combines all six in a single gallery Lens — surface-place the scene, a hand hint shows the pinch, a UI Kit button toggles a material via Access Components, and Marker Tracking overlays an animated character on recognised artwork. The full demo project is on GitHub:

▸ github.com/badchickstudios/LSAssetDemo

Community spotlight — Lafiya Watson (Bad Chick Studios). The asset roundup and demo project are her work; this post summarises and links them. Questions? Reach the team via the Contact page.

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