Jonathan Stephens and Michael Rubloff to speak at OC VRARA

LichtFeld Studio 0.5.4 adds a .licht project format, normal-guided training, lower training VRAM, and direct publishing to the Gallery from inside the app.

Japan's MLIT registers a 3D Gaussian Splatting method from Tohoku University and XMAT in NETIS, building bridge and tunnel models from 360-degree camera images.

Mask Bridge is a Lightroom Classic plugin that exports RF-DETR AI masks, estimated silhouettes of Lightroom masks and transparent cutouts with matching names.

SplatGen's preview for the Blender 5.3 Alpha builds camera datasets, trains Gaussian splats with a new V2 trainer, and relights them in EEVEE and Cycles.