$500 Consumer Camera Replaces $5,000 LiDAR for 3D Scans

PlayCanvas engineers demonstrated a full 3D Gaussian Splatting pipeline for real estate using a $500 Insta360 X5 instead of $5,000 LiDAR, alongside an open-source engine that renders 15 million splats smoothly in the browser.

2026-09-22 ~ 2026-09-22 · 2 related posts

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