Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields (MERF) Code now Available

Earlier this year, Google Research unveiled Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields (MERF) without its codebase. As of yesterday, it's now available.

Earlier this year, Google Research unveiled Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields (MERF) without its codebase. As of yesterday, it's now available.

Michael Rubloff

Michael Rubloff

Michael is the Founder and Managing Editor of Radiancefields.com

MERF

Earlier this year, Google Research unveiled Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields (MERF) without its codebase. As of yesterday, it's now available.

The project page features quite a few mindblowing demos, so check them out!

MERF enables realtime rendering in browser or on a mobile device. Now that the code has been released, we'll see if Google continues to open up product NeRF submission offerings to a larger base.

If you create anything, feel free to send it over. I'd love to check it out!

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