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AR app visualizes Wi‑Fi as colored orbs and a live heatmap through your phone…

2026-07-24 · 03:34 UTC ·@om_patel5 ·1 min read

Brief

om_patel5 showcases an AR app that visualizes home Wi‑Fi as colored orbs and live heatmaps through your phone camera, with green for strong and yellow/purple for weak signals, and flags dead zones. It runs location‑pinned speed tests (download, upload, ping), scans nearby networks (55 found in one test), and reports channel congestion.

Why it matters

AR app visualizes Wi‑Fi as colored orbs and a live heatmap through your phone camera: green where signal is strong, yellow and purple where it drops off; it paints signal across your actual floor, flags dead zones with a no‑entry marker, and can import floorplans and save heatmaps to compare before/after moving the router.

Key details

  • App runs location‑pinned real speed tests (download, upload, ping) from whatever spot you stand, offers visualization modes (lava, gauge, balls) and lets you switch between peak and average signal.
  • App scans nearby networks and channel congestion (author found 55 networks in one test) and the post claims this solves the ubiquitous problem that Wi‑Fi is invisible and hard to troubleshoot.
Source evidence

THIS GUY VIBE CODED AN AR APP THAT LETS YOU PHYSICALLY SEE THE WIFI SIGNAL IN THE AIR AROUND YOUR HOUSE

wifi is completely invisible, so when your connection is bad you just guess. move the router, move your desk, hope

but this makes the signal visible through your camera

> hold your phone up and the signal strength floats in the air as colored orbs, green where its strong, yellow and purple where its dropping off
> walk around and it paints a live heatmap across your actual floor, so you literally see the signal fade room to room
> run a real speed test from wherever youre standing, down, up and ping, pinned to that exact spot
> it flags dead zones with a no entry marker so you know where not to put your desk
> pick your visualization, lava, gauge or balls, and switch between peak and average signal
> import your floorplan and save your heatmaps to compare before and after moving the router
> it also scans every network around you, 55 found in this one, plus channel congestion so you know which channel to switch to

everyone with wifi has this problem and nobody had a way to see it. now we do

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