3D Gaussian splatting turns phone shots into explorable photorealistic 3D scenes
import_jmr · x · 2026-09-23
The author explains how 3D Gaussian splatting, which emerged in 2023, lets anyone capture a street, room, or museum with a phone and turn the images into a photorealistic 3D scene explorable in a browser. Open-source tools like PlayCanvas's SuperSplat make editing, publishing, and sharing simple, though creating and serving scenes at scale still takes significant compute. We're heading toward a world where physical spaces can be digitally captured and explored.
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