PlayCanvas

PlayCanvas is a real-time collaborative platform and open source engine for WebGL and WebXR apps that has become one of the most active homes for gaussian splatting on the web. 3DGS support landed natively in the full PlayCanvas Editor in 2024, and the Engine has shipped steady splat-focused releases since, including unified gsplat rendering performance and customization in Engine 2.13 and continuing through Engine 2.21.0 in July 2026. Engine 2.18.0 added per-splat scene fog through a new public API, GSplatParams.useFog, which defaults to true, and Engine 2.21.0 added volumetric fog through CameraFrame.volumetricFog on both WebGL2 and WebGPU, raymarched against splat-authored depth from the depth prepass.

PlayCanvas also drives much of the web's 3DGS compression story: the team introduced Spatially Ordered Gaussians (SOGS), which the Engine adopted to make splats dramatically smaller for web delivery. Alongside the engine, PlayCanvas released Blocks and a responsive, composable SplatViewer component for displaying Gaussian splats, and community tutorials have shown full playable games built from a captured splat.

The company maintains a family of open splat tools. SuperSplat, the browser-based gaussian splatting editor, reached 2.30 with LCC2 import and format-agnostic LOD and has continued through 2.32. SplatTransform, its splat conversion and processing tool, reached v3.0.0 in July 2026 with a sevenfold speed increase. The ecosystem builds on top of them too, with GigaSplat forking SuperSplat for experimental features and platforms like Bitbybit adding PlayCanvas support.