LiDAR

The University of Idaho Drone Lab flew an XGRIDS PortalCam on a Freefly Astro to scan the 2026 US Capitol Christmas Tree, later processed into a Gaussian splat.

CHCNAV CoCloud adds a 3DGS rendering engine that CHCNAV says preloads models up to 5 GB in seconds, plus 20% faster processing and AI pedestrian filtering.

Hesai launches Kosmo, pairing the Kosmo One lidar and 8K capture device with Kosmo World cloud reconstruction of Gaussian splats, meshes and depth data.

Artec Twins is the first Artec 3D software to generate and render Gaussian splats, built from Artec Jet LiDAR or photos alongside point clouds and meshes.