Back when Spatial Fields first appeared in May, it was already bringing full fidelity Gaussian Splats into mixed reality on the Vision Pro with spherical harmonics and HDR, when applicable. Four months and a handful of updates later, the app has reached 1.0 and hit the app store. However, it’s surprisingly available, not just for Vision Pro, but iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple TV.
On the Vision Pro side, the experience is still the best way to relive your own captures with spherical harmonics. You can drop PLY or SPZ files in from iCloud Drive or a NAS, and the app renders them with spherical harmonics intact. What’s new here are spatial widgets, which essentially act as persistent splats you can hang in your space like artwork. Tap one and it opens straight into the capture.
On iPhone and iPad, the app has grown into more than just a companion tool. It’s a full viewer, with the same fidelity and even an AR mode for object splats. You can pin widgets to your home or lock screen, save favorites for offline access, and generate preview images using a forked version of SuperSplat. The fork carries reworked controls for Vision Pro hand gestures so you can render out images without ever leaving the app. For now, it only works with PLY, but SPZ previews are on the roadmap.
The Apple TV version brings a way to throw splats up onto television screens. You can navigate them with the Siri Remote, or better yet, pair your iPhone or iPad and use it as a controller. Right now it’s limited to gallery hosted splats, but direct casting from your device is planned.
And then there’s the Mac app. This one unlocks something super exciting with remote rendering for Vision Pro. If you’ve ever tried to load a huge splat on the headset, you’ll know where this is going. Instead of choking on dense captures, you can now let your Mac handle the render and stream the result into the Vision Pro over WiFi. On a Mac Studio, you can push much larger reconstructions than the headset could ever handle natively.
It’s an exciting launch and should bring a lot more capability to those interested in gaussian splatting within the Apple ecosystem. Spatial Fields can be downloaded from the App Store here.
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