Dreamopia

Inspiration

Kids have big imaginations but small hands — they can't build the worlds they dream up.

We wanted to give them something simpler than a screen: just put on a pair of glasses, speak, and watch your story come alive in the room around you.

Dreamopia started from a simple question — what if a child's bedtime story could walk right into the bedroom?

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What it does

Dreamopia runs on Snap Spectacles AR glasses and has two modes:

• Story Mode
  A child speaks a story idea and an AI narrator generates a children's story in real time — reading it aloud while 3D animals appear in the room, react to the plot, and disappear when their scene ends.

• Agent Mode
  Kids can speak freely: "put a fox on my left" or "make it snow" — and it just happens.
  The whole room becomes the storybook.

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How we built it

• The AR layer is built in Lens Studio (TypeScript)

  • 3D animal spawning
    
  • Idle animations
    
  • Particle effects (snow, fireflies, rainbows)
    
  • Typewriter subtitle system
    

• The AI backend runs on Botpress ADK + Claude

  • Generates structured JSON story beats
    
  • Maps directly to scene commands
    

• Communication

  • Botpress Chat API
    
  • Custom polling loop on the Lens side
    

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Challenges we ran into

• 3D assets not appearing due to a scene hierarchy parenting bug
• AR coordinate confusion
  
  • Objects unintentionally attached to the camera
    
• No WebSocket support in Lens Studio
  → Required building a custom HTTP polling layer

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Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Fully working end-to-end loop
  → A child speaks → AI writes → AR scene appears in seconds

• AI-driven scene control

  • Decides what appears, where, and when
    
  • Not just narration — true interaction

👉 Feels closer to a living picture book than a chatbot.

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What we learned

• AR has high *“invisible friction” *

  • Scene hierarchy
    
  • Coordinate systems
    
  • Asset formats
    

• Structured outputs matter
  → Using strict JSON made integration far more reliable than free-form text

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What's next for Dreamopia

• More animals and environments
  
• Fully animated characters
  
• Parent companion app
  
• Memory system
  → Pip the fox remembers the child and past adventures

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Built With

Snap Spectacles, Lens Studio, TypeScript, Botpress ADK, Claude (Anthropic), Cerebras Chat API, Speech-to-Text API, Text-to-Speech API, Spectacles Interaction Kit

Built With

• lenstudio