Interview
Christoph Spinger is an XR Expert Engineer at Telekom MMS. When he isn’t leading teams and building cutting-edge products for clients, he regularly takes home prizes at contests and hackathons. Most recently, he won the XRCC Hackathon, currently the most important XR hackathon in Germany. His winning entry, „Handslation“, translates any object you hold in your hand to help you learn a new language. In his case: Korean. He built the app for both the Pico 4 Ultra and the Rokid AI glasses.
Another highlight from his portfolio is Ballee, an experimental project exploring real-time object detection by bringing physical balls into interactive mixed reality scenarios.
As one of the most active XR developers in the scene today, Kristoff will be joining the upcoming AI Hackathon at STARTPLATZ (Sept 4–6 in Cologne) as a mentor and jury member for the „Contextual AI Challenge“ track. So you can really profit from his experience and excellence!
To get participants hyped and prepared, Kristoff sits down with us to share his personal hackathon playbook and insider dev tips:
- App Inspiration: One fascinating „True Crime“ app concept for location-based AI glasses that Kristoff hasn’t built yet—and wants you to steal for the hackathon!
- The 48-Hour Hardware Playbook: What is the exact step-by-step strategy when building for AI & AR glasses under time pressure?
- Time Allocation: Why half of your hackathon time shouldn’t be spent on coding at all—and what you should do instead to impress the jury.
- Team Dynamics: How to find the right teammates on-site in under 10 seconds.
- Dev Workflow & AI Tooling: Why you don’t need to be a full game developer or native engineer anymore to build smart glasses apps, and how AI code editors like Cursor change the game.
- Hardware Realities: The hidden technical bottlenecks (like Bluetooth speeds) you must consider when connecting smart glasses to a phone.
We also discussed these news:
- Samsung unveils more Smart Glasses designs at Samsung Unwrapped, July 22nd
- OpenAI interested in Smart Glasses, says OpenAI President Greg Brockman. But makes that sense?
- Essilor Luxottica, which is partnering with Meta to manufacture the most successful Ai glasses of all times the Meta Ray-Ban, is talking sales numbers: exponential and almost double than comparable time last year.
Shownotes
- INTERVIEW
- LinkedIn: Christoph Spinger
- KIBrillenTest.de
- Telekom MMS | Experience Beyond Digital
- E099 – Apple Vision Pro 2, Sound Spice gegen Motion Sickness, AltSpace VR | Christoph Spinger über Tower Tag, Laser Limbo und XR bei Axel Springer – Spatial Realities Podcast
- JOIN THE HACKATHON
- The Contextual AI Challenge – XR Track 2026 – Spatial Realities Podcast
- NEWS
- Samsung Unveils More Smart Glasses Designs from Gentle Monster & Warby Parker Ahead of Fall Release | Road to VR
- OpenAI Is ‚Very Interested‘ in Building Out ChatGPT Integrations for Wearables – CNET
- \n Nachfrage nach Smart Glasses: Umsatz mit Meta-Brillen hat sich nahezu verdoppelt | heise online\n
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- Discord: Spatial Realities
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