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The University of Idaho Drone Lab flew an XGRIDS PortalCam on a Freefly Astro to scan the 2026 US Capitol Christmas Tree, later processed into a Gaussian splat.

Google DeepMind Genie 4 generates explorable worlds in real time, pixel by pixel, adding native audio and Gemini models that steer the scene between inputs.

Framestore's Superman talk details its 4D Gaussian splatting pipeline, from a 192-camera, 88-second take trained in Postshot to per-shot PLY files in Houdini.

Tommy Oshima rebuilt Kenji Kohiyama's macro insect photogrammetry as Gaussian splats, recovering hairs and wings, now showing at the Okayama Prefectural Museum.

CHCNAV CoCloud adds a 3DGS rendering engine that CHCNAV says preloads models up to 5 GB in seconds, plus 20% faster processing and AI pedestrian filtering.

Linker Vision's ESG AI agent, developed with MVRDV, plans urban tree planting on a 3D Gaussian Splatting city twin unified in OpenUSD through NVIDIA Omniverse.

Eclipse RealitySync opens as a free public preview on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro with a customer pilot, and Eclipse says it uses Gaussian splatting.

Clemson University reprocessed existing drone imagery of Memorial Stadium into a Gaussian splat and a mesh in Esri ArcGIS Drone2Map in about 13 hours total.

Gretna, Louisiana had ES2 fly its four square miles with a WingtraRAY drone for imagery and lidar, processed into Gaussian splats in Esri ArcGIS Reality.

Gracia's World Reconstruction Model turns real multi-camera footage into accurate 4D scenes for sports replays, VFX and film, 4DGS processing and robotics.

ILM's John Knoll used Gaussian splatting to capture the Razor Crest interior for The Mandalorian and Grogu, roughly 20,000 images shot in 15 to 20 minutes.

Daniel Skaale demos Omnia Splat Builder, which turns one still image into a 360-degree Gaussian splat through an AI-generated orbit and automated cleanup.