nerfstudio Announces Blender VFX integration

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.

Spirula Studio v2026.10.6 adds experimental E57, LAS and PLY laser scan support for metric scale and depth and normal maps, plus a region of interest editor.