At IBC 2025 in Amsterdam, XGRIDS just changed the gaussian splatting industry. Today they unveiled the PortalCam, the first consumer friendly spatial camera designed to capture the world in lifelike 3D using Gaussian Splatting.
The PortalCam joins the other XGRIDS devices in their lineup, the K1 and L2 Pro, but the PortalCam a couple special notes. The first and perhaps most impactful is its price. The PortalCam begins retailing at $5000 and I have a discount for people to get 5% off from their order.
Over the last few years, radiance fields have been reshaping how researchers, filmmakers, and developers think about digital capture. PortalCam is the device that begins to make capture easier than ever at a price point that prosumers can afford. I know in part because I have been using the PortalCam for roughly the past month and it's awesome. Similar to the K1 and L2 Pro, you capture by walking through a space. The PortalCam features four cameras total, with two located on the front and one fisheye lens on each side of the camera. In addition, there is also a LiDAR unit on the front, shooting roughly 860K points per second.
To learn more about my initial impressions of the PortalCam, check out the YouTube video.
There are two variations of the PortalCam at launch. There is a Standard Package coming with the PortalCam, a tripod, one battery, a phone mount, and year of LCC Studio Basic. The second, a Premium package, brings a second battery and a year of LCC Studio Premium for $6799. To buy the PortalCam, check out the XGRIDS Shopify page and use my code RADIANCEFIELDS for 5% off your purchase.
Several industries stand to benefit from a lower entry point into the XGRIDS ecosystem. Some of the highlighted ones include location scouting and virtual production in media and entertainment, virtual tours in real estate, and memory capture for life events.
In addition to the PortalCam, XGRIDS is also releasing a new version of their processing software, LCC Studio, brining support for the PortalCam and a few hugely impactful features. In addition to exporting out .plys or .lcc files, users are now able to export their captures straight to USDZ. This is a clear acknowledgement from the XGRIDS team of the recently announced NuRec library from NVIDIA and the gaussian splatting support added to both Omniverse and Isaac Sim. It is not difficult to imagine the workflow that XGRIDS is beginning to build support for both robotics and simulation teams across the globe.
PortalCam is being demoed this week at IBC 2025, Booth 12.H21a in Amsterdam and I have a video introducing the camera here. From what I understand the initial run of PortalCam's might be limited, so if you are on the fence about buying one, you might want to move quickly. There is no word yet when they will begin shipping.
While camera aesthetics have not undergone significant revision in recent memory, it does not mean that the cameras of the future will remain as they do now. The PortalCam. This feels like an impactful and exciting moment for radiance field hardware.
