Zillow, DJI, and Esri? Gaussian Splatting is Arriving Everywhere
Large Corporations begin 3DGS Support | Instant NGP 2.0. | Radiance Fields in Google Maps
Hi Everyone!
Contained in this month’s update:
Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.
What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!
Code releases for you to try out!
Let’s get into it!
Industry Updates
This month featured more large scale companies announcing support for gaussian splatting than any prior.
Zillow is bringing gaussian splatting support to select Showcase listings, as SkyTour. It runs on both desktop and mobile.
Leading geospatial company, Esri, also announced they will support gaussian splatting within ArcGIS. They have the capability of large scale reconstructions on city scale and larger! DJI added gaussian splatting support to Terra, its geospatial software. Their implementation can process up to 30,000 images per training run.
krpano added gaussian splatting support to their viewer and it’s a great tool! It’s easy to use with powerful features. If you’re looking for a way to create narratives with gaussian splatting, it’s a great choice. Arrival Space released version .81, adding spatial sounds, in addition to revamping the content layers, making it much easier to navigate the backend.
Gracia added a native viewer for Mac. GSOPs added support for both Karma and Solaris rendering within Houdini.
NVIDIA released Instant NGP 2.0. Rendering rates are radically increased, all the way up to and past one hundred fps for some captures for me. Additionally training times are also 1.5X faster. This is a big deal!
Nerfstudio released gsplat 1.5.3, bringing all major APIs, including 3DGS, 2DGS, and 3DGUT, have been updated to handle multiple batch dimensions. They also released Viser 1.0!
Postshot has added a ton of new features this month, including April Tag support. Postshot can be accessed here.
AWS began offering a cloud based solution for various radiance field representations, including gsplat, 3DGRUT, and more! Play Canvas has launched Splat Transform, serving as an easy command line conversion tool for 3DGS. VRChat added gaussian splatting support thanks to developer Mykhail Moroz.
I sat down with Visual Features editor at The New Yorker, Sam Wolson, to profile how he’s been using gaussian splatting in journalism.
Videos and Content:
Did you know that Google Maps has supported radiance fields for the past two years? They’re not using what you’re probably expecting.
Jonathan Stephens came out with a couple videos this month. Here’s my favorite!
Olli Huttunen released his Blender plugin for easier 360 video clean up.
Mike Caronna and Brenden Singh released a splat music video in 360 for Nick Diver!
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Hardware
XGRIDS competitors, Stonex and SHARE both added Gaussian Splatting support!
Research
New papers continue to flood in!
NeRF Is a Valuable Assistant for 3D Gaussian Splatting
iLRM: An Iterative Large 3D Reconstruction Model
GSCache: Real-Time Radiance Caching for Volume Path Tracing using 3D Gaussian Splatting
EX-4D: EXtreme Viewpoint 4D Video Synthesis via Depth Watertight Mesh
Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes
Appearance Harmonization via Bilateral Grid Prediction with Transformers for 3DGS
ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions
MILo: Mesh-In-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Detailed and Efficient Surface Reconstruction
Who’s Hiring:
The Job Board on Radiancefields.com is live. If you have an opening, get in touch! We now offer placement services, for totally free! Upload your resume to this page!
Eyeline Studios (Netflix) is looking for a Applied Innovation Technical Director.
1X Technologies is looking for a Software Engineer, Teleoperation.
Nuro is looking for a Software Engineer, Machine Learning, 3D Reconstruction.
Scanline (Netflix) is looking for a Software Engineer, Stage Pipeline Workflows.
Sherwood Design Engineers are searching for a Computational Designer - Geometry Specialist.
Parallel Domain is looking for a Senior Game Engine Programmer.
Code Releases:
VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (License Change!)
DASH: Self-Supervised Decomposition and 4D Hash Encoding for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
Hunyuan3D World Model
LangSplatV2: High-dimensional 3D Language Gaussian Splatting with 450+ FPS
SPaGS: Fast and Accurate 3D Gaussian Splatting for Spherical Panoramas
NeRF in Rust
Open Source 3D Reconstruction Toolbox for Gaussian Splats
Einstein Fields: A neural perspective to computational general relativity.
Cameras as Relative Positional Encoding
TNT-GS: Truncated and Tailored Gaussian Splatting
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Michael Rubloff