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World Labs

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World Labs is a generative 3D startup co-founded by Ben Mildenhall, building foundation models for 3D scene generation. The company's outputs have been deeply intertwined with radiance field representations, and World Labs has been a frequent subject of community attention since its founding.

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WebODM 3.3.0 Brings Gaussian Splatting to Open-Source Drone Mapping

WebODM 3.3.0 adds Gaussian splatting support, exporting COLMAP training sets for OpenSplat or Brush and tiling uploaded splats into Spark's RAD format.

Michael Rubloff

Oct 9, 2026

WebODM

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WebODM 3.3.0 Brings Gaussian Splatting to Open-Source Drone Mapping

WebODM 3.3.0 adds Gaussian splatting support, exporting COLMAP training sets for OpenSplat or Brush and tiling uploaded splats into Spark's RAD format.

Michael Rubloff

WebODM

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WebODM 3.3.0 Brings Gaussian Splatting to Open-Source Drone Mapping

WebODM 3.3.0 adds Gaussian splatting support, exporting COLMAP training sets for OpenSplat or Brush and tiling uploaded splats into Spark's RAD format.

Michael Rubloff

Oct 9, 2026

WebODM

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Spark v2.3.0 Fixes On-Demand Rendering for Paged LoD

Spark v2.3.0 fixes on-demand rendering for paged LoD Gaussian splats, adds credentialed and custom-header loading, and lets writeSpz export ExtSplats to SPZ.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 30, 2026

Spark.js

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Spark v2.3.0 Fixes On-Demand Rendering for Paged LoD

Spark v2.3.0 fixes on-demand rendering for paged LoD Gaussian splats, adds credentialed and custom-header loading, and lets writeSpz export ExtSplats to SPZ.

Michael Rubloff

Spark.js

Platforms

Spark v2.3.0 Fixes On-Demand Rendering for Paged LoD

Spark v2.3.0 fixes on-demand rendering for paged LoD Gaussian splats, adds credentialed and custom-header loading, and lets writeSpz export ExtSplats to SPZ.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 30, 2026

Spark.js

Platforms

AMD to Acquire World Labs in $8.2 Billion All-Stock Deal

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, with Fei-Fei Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 28, 2026

AMD World Labs

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AMD to Acquire World Labs in $8.2 Billion All-Stock Deal

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, with Fei-Fei Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Michael Rubloff

AMD World Labs

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AMD to Acquire World Labs in $8.2 Billion All-Stock Deal

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, with Fei-Fei Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 28, 2026

AMD World Labs

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Spark v2.2.0 Adds Faster LoD Traversal, Rust Decoders

v2.2.0 adds an experimental faster LoD splat traversal algorithm, replaces JavaScript splat decoders with Rust ones, and reports up to 20% faster sorting.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 14, 2026

Spark

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Spark v2.2.0 Adds Faster LoD Traversal, Rust Decoders

v2.2.0 adds an experimental faster LoD splat traversal algorithm, replaces JavaScript splat decoders with Rust ones, and reports up to 20% faster sorting.

Michael Rubloff

Spark

Platforms

Spark v2.2.0 Adds Faster LoD Traversal, Rust Decoders

v2.2.0 adds an experimental faster LoD splat traversal algorithm, replaces JavaScript splat decoders with Rust ones, and reports up to 20% faster sorting.

Michael Rubloff

Sep 14, 2026

Spark

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