fly-brain-spectacles
Hologram fruit flies on Snap Spectacles (2024), each driven by the full MaleCNS fly connectome running on a Mac (bit-exact Metal GPU kernel)
Details
- External ID
- 1368155150
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- fly-brain-spectacles
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4260184473481937
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- fruit fly connectome applications
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ar fruit fly connectome simulation for snap spectacles
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Executing a bit-exact MaleCNS Drosophila connectome neural simulation on a custom Metal GPU kernel and streaming it to Snap Spectacles requires cutting-edge computational neuroscience and low-level graphics/XR hardware expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires ingesting the full fruit fly connectome (over 100k+ neurons and tens of millions of synapses) into sparse matrix graph representations, running biophysical neural ODE simulations via bit-exact Apple Metal compute shaders, and streaming behavioral outputs via low-latency WebSockets/WebRTC to Snap Lens Studio on Spectacles. This demands specialized expertise in computational neuroscience, GPU GPGPU shader development, low-latency networking, and AR hardware SDK integration.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #126 of 187 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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