For anyone who missed some or all of the Gaussian Splatting Town Hall, the entire event is now available to watch for free on YouTube, and the presenters’ slides are also accessible online.

My biggest takeaway was NVIDIA’s announcement that it plans to release both 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing and 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform in the near future.

Below is an overview of the event’s presentation schedule:

Welcome

• Co-Host: Patrick Cozzi, Chief Platform Officer, Bentley Systems

• Co-Host: Alexey Medvedev, AR Tech Lead at Meta and Chair of Khronos’ 3D Formats Working Group

Foundations

• Michael Rubloff, Founder and Managing Editor, Radiance Fields

• Aras Pranckevičius, Programmer

• A.J. Chavar, Creative Strategist & Nick Bartzokas, Senior Software Engineer – R&D The New York Times

• Q&A

Momentum

• Nicholas Butko, Senior Director, Engineering, Niantic, Inc.

• Nemanja Bartolovic, Software Engineer & Ashish Singh, Product Management, Cloud-AI, RL-Meta

• Nicolas Moenne-Loccoz, Principal Research Engineer, ADLR, NVIDIA

• Q&A

Web

• Will Eastcott, CEO & Co-founder, PlayCanvas

• Cedric Guillemet, Senior Software Development Engineer, Microsoft

• Thomas Richter-Trummer, Co-Founder & CTO, Arrival.Space

• Yoshiharu Sato, Founder & CTO, Waldek Technologies

• Q&A

Geospatial & Digital Twins

• Renaud Keriven, Distinguished Engineer, Bentley Systems

• Jason Sobotka, Software Engineer, Cesium

• Ladislav Horký, CTO at Melown Technologies, Hexagon

• Q&A

• Konrad Wenzel, Director, Stuttgart R&D Center and Jean-Philippe Pons, Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer, Esri

• Takayuki Murayama, Senior Director & Talha Khalid, Global Development Manager, EARTHBRAIN

• Emeric Beaufays, Geospatial and 3D Specialist, Founder & Software Engineer, JDULTRA

• Q&A

Next Steps

The event was well attended and it would not surprise me to see more events and workshops emerge from the Metaverse Standards Forum and the Khronos Group. If you are looking for an event to attend this week, check out JPEG/MPEG's Workshop on Radiance Fields this Friday morning!