Snapchat adds new tools for building Bitmoji games
image via techcrunch.comSnap is launching new Lens Studio tools that AR creators and developers can use to build Bitmoji games, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The company is also releasing a Bitmoji Suite as well as new assets for games.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/snapchat-adds-new-tools-for-building-bitmoji-games/
If you clone a #LensStudio targeted to Snap Inc. #Spectacles and then open it, you might be greeted by an error that can be confusing if you are pretty new to the environment. Here's why, and how you can simply get past that.
Once again I learned that however clear I think I have explained things, there are always little things I apparently stepped over just too quickly and left people confused anyway. Here’s the thing: if you open a freshly cloned Lens Studio project targeted towards Spectacles, you will immediately be greeted by a number of errors
With apologies for the somewhat pedantic title, but of all things, sound has given me quite some headaches. This will be a bit of an unusual blog, as it also shows a few things that did turn out not to work or worked differently than I thought. But of course, I will also show how I solved it.
In the previous post we created a hand menu to control the app. Pardon, ‘lens’. Now we are actually going to make the hand menu do something. To be precise: Re-create the cube grid from scratch, in front of your camera Drop all the cubes to the floor Move all the cubes back to their start position (in about 1 second)
If you have tried the final version of Cube Bouncer already, you might have noticed this hand menu. You pull up a hand, palm towards you, and this menu shows up. Now if you come from MRTK and HoloLens development, this is a very natural interaction method, and I decided to re-create it for Spectacles, if only because I had no idea how I otherwise should get an easy-to-use settings menu.
In part 3 of my series #LensStudio for the confused #Unity developer", I show code to smash cubes with your hands, and also explain how you can make them bounce off the spatial map (and thus real objects). Includes occlusion as well.
In this blog, I take you, the confused Unity developer trying to understand Lens Studio, by the hand and introduce you to doing hand tracking, sphere casting, smashing things away, and how to let them bounce off the spatial map. This is a continuation of my previous post. If you have not read that, I strongly suggest you do; otherwise, it will make little sense. At the end of this blog, the app will do this:
In part 2 of my series "#LensStudio for the confused #Unity developer", I explain how to set up a project, how to create a prefab equivalent, how to write a Behaviour equivalent, and show things like getting a reference to the main camera, vector math, and more.
All right, time to build something with Lens Studio. I am going to show you how to build Cube Bouncer for Spectacles: smash cubes with your hand, let them bounce off each other, the walls and floor, let them drop on the floor and come back to the original position. This may sound like a very trivial application - which is true from a functional standpoint - but there’s a lot in it:
This blog post is intended for seasoned Unity developers who would like to tinker with Lens Studio to make a Spectacles 2024 app, have read the nice page explaining Lens Studio to Unity developers made by Snap, and are still pretty much confused after that. In other words, exactly where I was. This is typically the kind of blog post that I wish someone else had written before I started toying around, but then again, that goes for most of my blog posts, and what made me get started in 2007(!).
Version 0.0.1 of an AR window into one of the meeting rooms at the office where I work. Made using Lens Studio in just a few hours! It’s amazing how much you can accomplish now in so little time
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