GeoCue

GeoCue is a LiDAR mapping company founded in 2003 in Huntsville, Alabama, and now based in nearby Madison. It is part of mdGroup and sells TrueView drone, mobile and handheld LiDAR sensors together with LP360, its point cloud processing software. GeoCue acquired QCoherent, the original developer of LP360, in 2009 and develops the software in house. LP360 ships as LP360 Drone, LP360 Land for handheld data and LP360 Geospatial, and it runs as a Windows desktop application.

Gaussian splatting entered LP360 in two parts. GeoCue announced a Gaussian Splatting Add-On and a 3D Model Mesh Add-On at INTERGEO 2025. LP360 version 2025.2 carried an experimental 3D Gaussian Splat Viewer, and version 2026.1 introduced the Gaussian Splat Viewer that GeoCue documents today, a window opened from the View menu that loads a .ply splat and an optional .json trajectory for stepping between camera positions. The viewer is included in every LP360 license level and does not generate or edit splats.

Generation runs through the Modeling tool and is tied to GeoCue hardware. It needs LP360 Land Standard with the 3D Gaussian Splat add-on license, a TrueView GO handheld scanner carrying a 3DGS Model hardware license at capture time, and High Precision Coloring during SLAM processing. On the TrueView GO 116S and 132S it also needs Insta360 imagery from the 360 Photo Kit, recorded as normal or night mode video at 24 Hz or as timelapse at 1 Hz, with 5.7K recommended. Jobs run through the LP360 Job Manager and write a .PLY file. GeoCue’s feature list for version 2026.1 says generation was left out of the initial build for delivery in a later service pack or patch, and its current documentation lists the feature as introduced in 2026.1.

GeoCue’s documentation ranks splat generation among the most computationally demanding LP360 workflows. The minimum is an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti with 32 GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD, and the recommended build is an RTX 4070 or 5070 class GPU with 12 to 16 GB of VRAM and 64 GB of RAM. LP360 itself runs on Windows 11 and requires an OpenGL 4.5 capable video card.

LP360 Land costs $995 per year for Basic and $3,245 per year for Standard, and the Gaussian Splatting Add-on adds $3,000 per year on top of Standard. Version 2026.2 is GeoCue’s final feature update of 2026. GeoCue’s feature list for the coming 2027.1 version includes sensor agnostic 3D mesh and COLMAP outputs from the 3D Photo Engine, with the COLMAP export intended for generating splats in third party software such as Postshot. The 3D Photo Engine add-on already builds photogrammetry meshes from imagery, and GeoCue’s help page marks the COLMAP export as coming soon.