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Take machines apart with your bare hands: building ATLAS Live in public

DEV Community: computervision·Victor Isaac·about 21 hours ago
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Status: building now. Started 21 Oct 2026 for the Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon. Submission due 30 Oct 2026. Live build: atlas-live-xi.vercel.app

A few weeks ago I built a gesture interface for maintenance technicians, JAMES . One part of it, called ATLAS, drew the targeted machine as an exploded schematic you could pull apart with an open palm. For this hackathon I am rebuilding that part on its own, in the browser, and taking it much further.

ATLAS Live turns real machines, real objects and real places into holograms you can pull apart with your hands, pick with a pinch and question out loud. Every fact it speaks comes from a web search it cites.

This post is written mid-build, so it is a progress report, not a victory lap.

What it does today

Mode You do It does

Library Pick a machine: Perseverance, Ingenuity, the James Webb telescope, a chronograph, a concept car Loads the real model.…

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