NavVis has added Gaussian splats to IVION 12 as a third visualization mode beside point clouds and panoramas. Panoramas show a site from the fixed positions where it was captured, and the Splats view lets a user move continuously through the space and look at it from any angle. NavVis is the latest major industry player to ship gaussian splatting capabilities.
Splats is gated. NavVis is shipping it as a beta program, and sign-up is open to NavVis MLX customers. Whether Splats capture extends to VLX or any other NavVis hardware is not yet known.
Automatic level of detail adjusts the rendered detail as a user moves through the scene. Mark & Measure and points of interest work directly in the Splats view, with measurement backed by the underlying point cloud. A direct link sends the same perspective to a colleague or client, who opens it in a browser. The demo scenes NavVis published are of the Hofgarten in Munich.
NavVis does not state the format the splats are stored or delivered in. No SPZ, SOG, PLY or glTF extension is named, and neither is the renderer or viewer technology. Splat counts, file sizes and training times are also absent.
The other half of the release is generally available. The unified workflow brings browsing, navigation, Mark & Measure, Crop & Download, Model Management, and POIs into one environment, so a user can crop an area and measure inside it, or change the view and inspect a POI, without the scene reloading. A refreshed interface, which NavVis attributes to customer feedback, ships alongside it.
The unified workflow is live in IVION 12. The Splats beta is open to NavVis MLX customers. Learn more here.
