If February felt like the month awareness exploded, I was wrong. There has been such large scale awareness growing in March. It’s been overwhelming. Between GTC, two major standards shipping production code, and a tidal wave of platform updates, this was arguably the most consequential month for gaussian splatting since the original paper dropped.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at what happened in March.

GTC 2026

NVIDIA’s GTC was the centerpiece of the month. I completed a few interviews, which should be published soon.

If you’ve been paying attention closely, you’ll notice that NVIDIA has been heavily contributing to repositories like gsplat, 3DGRUT, and fVDB over the past few weeks. fVDB also received a V0.4 release, bringing methods like MCMC and 3DGUT to the library. NVIDIA ovrtx also added Gaussian Splat support.

Additionally, vkSplatting 2026.1, NVIDIA’s open-source Vulkan Gaussian Splatting reference implementation received its first update of the year. Separately, NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is now generally available through the NGC catalog. Built on 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform (a variant of gaussian splatting), NuRec reconstructs real-world driving data into interactive 3D scenarios for simulation. There were also multiple GTC sessions dedicated to gaussian splatting at GTC.

Standardization

Standardization took a massive leap forward this month. Both major 3D interchange formats now have production-ready gaussian splatting support.

OpenUSD 26.03 formally released, introducing the UsdVolParticleField3DGaussianSplat schema, a USD prim type for 3DGS data. The release includes a reference Gaussian Splat renderer (hdParticleField), a PLY to USD conversion script, and WebAssembly build support. This is a huge milestone for VFX, virtual production, and animation pipelines.

On the glTF side, Cesium shipped KHR_gaussian_splatting support in both CesiumJS 1.139 and Cesium for Unreal v2.23.0 — making it one of the first major platform implementations of the Khronos glTF standard announced in February. Given Cesium’s footprint in geospatial and infrastructure visualization, this is a significant signal. The Khronos Group will host a webinar on April 7, 2026 focused on how gaussian splatting is being integrated into glTF and applied across real-world workflows.

Platform Updates

It was a monster month for platforms.

Babylon.js V9.0 released with several significant splatting updates. Gaussian Splatting meshes can now cast shadows. And Triangle Splatting support has been announced. A new C4D plugin gives Cinema 4D artists a more native way to import, render, relight, and art direct Gaussian splats. Atlux V2.1.4 sped up batch rendering for COLMAP export in the Unreal Engine plugin (Mar 30). UNIGINE 2.21 expanded its Gaussian Splatting controls. NanoGS, a free Unreal Engine plugin from VFX artist Tim Chen (Moonshine Studio), brings Nanite-inspired optimization to 3DGS rendering. COLMAP 4.0 released, bringing native support to GLOMAP.

3D streaming infrastructure provider Miris launched their public beta on March 22nd. The Culver City-based company is building infrastructure to deliver 3D content at internet scale.

LichtFeld Studio released V0.5 with an embedded Python runtime enabling installable plugins, and several new training, editing, and geometry capabilities. Additionally, Core11 extended their sponsorship of LichtFeld Studio through 2026, bringing their total commitment to €36,500 as a Foundational Sponsor. Postshot received updates adding photometric compensation and more. StorySplat shipped V2.0 with a major overhaul.

Looking Glass launched musubi alongside a collaboration with Tavio. Crysta AI launched Crysta Studio in public preview for 3D printing from radiance fields.

Solaya released an iPhone companion app for mobile 3D product capture. FriendlySplat launched as an open toolkit for gaussian splatting. Blurry added LOD streaming and revamped pricing. They now handle 40M+ splat scenes in browser with a free tier expanded to 30GB.

Epic Games’ RealityScan V2.1.1 shipped with COLMAP updates. DJI added DJI Reality Viewer to Terra and also announced the Avata 360 drone, an 8K 360 drone that sadly won’t be available in the US.

Real-World Use Cases

Inside Arcturus: How Radiance Fields Are Reshaping Volumetric Sports Broadcasts — I spoke to the Arcturus Sports team about what they’ve been working on.

Gracia launched a 4DGS experience at PortAventura Park — go see 4DGS out in the world!

Construction firm Weitz penned an article about how they’re using gaussian splatting.

Gaussian Splatting on YouTube

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This month I released a video introducing Gaussian SplatKing, my new iOS capture app! SplatKing is a pipeline agnostic capture tool that fires both the .5x and 1x lenses simultaneously and gives you manual controls over shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and EV. The goal is to build the most capable tool for generating splat-ready data without locking you into a specific pipeline. Check out the video and stay tuned for more updates. Download SplatKing here!

I was also fortunate enough to do a live stream with the NVIDIA Marketing team all about gaussian splatting. If you’re looking to learn more about 3DGS, this could be a helpful video for you!

I can definitively say that April will feature more videos than any month prior. Things are going to get out of hand next month and that’s about all I can say.

NVIDIA Giveaway

As part of GTC and the SplatKing launch, NVIDIA was kind enough provide a RTX PRO 6000 for me to giveaway. Here is the winner!

Congratulations to Raphaël Chênais from France who won the GPU.

Thank you to NVIDIA for providing the GPU and I appreciate everyone for entering. I hope to do more giveaways.

Jobs!

Here’s a curated selection from the Radiance Fields job board. Consider listing your openings on the radiancefields.com Job Board!

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect – Simulation Solutions 3D Reconstruction.

Ofinno is looking for a Principal Research Engineer, 3D Gaussian Splat Coding.

Waymo is searching for a ML Engineer, 3D/4D World Modeling, Simulation.

Apple is looking for a Sr Software Engineer (Front End - Real-Time 3D), Retail and Marcom Engineering.

Zoox is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer - 3D Vision Perception.

Eyeline Studios (Netflix) is looking for a Research Scientist – Computer Graphics, Vision and Machine Learning.

Bentley Systems is looking for a Principal Engineer - Computer Vision / 3D Reconstruction.

Niantic Spatial is looking for a Technical Lead, Computer Vision.

Meta is looking for a Research Scientist Intern, Photorealistic Telepresence (PhD).

Research

Stepper: Stepwise Immersive Scene Generation with Multiview Panoramas

LightHarmony3D: Harmonizing Illumination and Shadows for Object Insertion in 3D Gaussian Splatting

GaussianGPT: Towards Autoregressive 3D Gaussian Scene Generation

DiffSoup: Direct Differentiable Rasterization of Triangle Soup for Extreme Radiance Field Simplification

WorldMesh: Generating Navigable Multi-Room 3D Scenes via Mesh-Conditioned Image Diffusion

2Xplat: Two Experts Are Better Than One Generalist

Towards High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting with Queried-Convolution Neural Networks

World Reconstruction From Inconsistent Views

RetimeGS Continuous-Time Reconstruction of 4D Gaussian Splatting

PackUV: Packed Gaussian UV Maps for 4D Volumetric Video

LoGeR: Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory

ArtiFixer: Enhancing and Extending 3D Reconstruction with Auto-Regressive Diffusion Models

DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer

Code

ReSplat: Learning Recurrent Gaussian Splatting

3DGS with 360 Camera Guide

NanoGS: Training-Free Gaussian Splat Simplification

Mobile-GS: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Mobile Devices

ImprovedGS+: A High-Performance C++/CUDA Re-Implementation Strategy for 3D Gaussian Splatting

VoMP: Predicting Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields

Website Updates

I am beginning to create a data fund for people who have been capturing with gaussian splatting and are looking to license their data. Please send me an email if you’re interested!

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Last month I commented on the rapidly growing awareness of Gaussian Splatting, but it turns out I underestimated its pace. Welcome to everyone for whom this newsletter is their first issue.

To summarize, Gaussian Splatting is a type of radiance field that enables you to reconstruct lifelike 3D from a series of 2D images or video. I hope you find this newsletter valuable and, if so, please consider sharing it with a friend.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at what happened in February.

Splats hit the global stage, appearing in several Olympic events in Milan, ranging from ski jumping, hockey, and figure skating.

I don’t know why this isn’t a bigger story, but PlayCanvas released SuperSplat Studio. It’s a great way to create educational experiences from SuperSplat. They also refined the UI of published splats.

OTOY released the first update of the year to OctaneRender 2026, which does full path tracing of splats.

Foundry-owned Nuke officially added gaussian splatting support in version 17.0. This is a massive development for the media and entertainment industry, especially in film. Speaking of which, I spoke to VFX house Proof Inc, who did the previsualization work on Jurassic World and used gaussian splatting. There are several films and high budget projects currently using gaussian splatting right now and I cannot wait for them to release.

Arcturus Sports released a teaser of what they’ve been working on and it should blow your mind. I recently completed an interviewed with their CTO and CEO. It should be on the website soon.

Standardization has become increasingly prevalent. The Khronos Group announced a release candidate for glTF 2.0 and included a quote from me. Here is more information about why this matters. Simultaneously, OpenUSD released 26.03, bringing gaussian splatting support.

World Labs had a big month. They announced a $1B fundraising round, released the Spark 2.0 Developer preview and with it, the .rad file type (it stands for radiance field!). Developer Léo Mallet. released COLMAP Bridge for C4D, which works with many 3D software packages.

In the geospatial industry, I gave two presentations at Geo Week 2026, and gaussian splatting was everywhere. Esri also just released Version 5 of ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, supporting gaussian splatting.

Arrival Space added vibe coding to their gaussian splatting platform. I prompted some traffic in my Queensboro Plaza reconstruction. If only I could simulate it now. New platform Kudan launches for enterprise gaussian splatting applications.

360 data is becoming more prevalent as a capture method. New platform, Splatware released, supporting .insvs. At Geo Week Cintoo announced 360 support for gaussian splatting with a partnership with Ricoh. AnnxStudio also added 360 camera support. YouTuber and capture expert, Olli Huttunen updated his 360 Extractor plugin for Blender. Laskos Visions also updated their 360 extractor.

MetalSplatter just released Version 1.0 and spherical harmonic support is finally here for the Vision Pro. They are still MIT Licensed.

Tomorrow I am doing a livestream with the NVIDIA marketing team! If you like gaussian splatting, I strongly recommend watching what they present at GTC in two weeks. Make sure to register!

Gaussian Splatting on YouTube

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I finished much less videos in February than scheduled. Curse you, vibe coding as a hobby! In my lone video, I sat down with Tolga Kart, CEO of Third Dimension AI to discuss how gaussian splatting is successfully helping to close the domain gap in simulation.

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Jobs!

Over the past month, a few companies have let me know they have successfully hired engineers from the Radiancefields.com Job Board. Here is an email I received recently. For employers, get in touch with me about job listings and if you are interested in working in a gaussian splatting role, upload your resume here!

Volkswagen is looking for a Senior AI ML Ops Engineer.

Apple is looking for a Sr Software Engineer (Front End - Real-Time 3D), Retail and Marcom Engineering.

Waymo is searching for a Research Scientist / Computer Vision Researcher, Map Scalability.

Amazon is looking for a Applied Scientist, Personal Robotics Group.

Meta is looking for a Research Scientist Intern, Photorealistic Telepresence (PhD).

Eyeline Studios (Netflix) is looking for a Research Scientist – Computer Graphics, Vision and Machine Learning.

NVIDIA is looking for a System Software Engineer, Neural Graphics SDKs.

Research

DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer

VGG-T³ Offline Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction at Scale

PackUV: Packed Gaussian UV Maps for 4D Volumetric Video

Augmented Radiance Field: A General Framework for Enhanced Gaussian Splatting

MEGS²: Memory-Efficient Gaussian Splatting via Spherical Gaussians and Unified Pruning

WebSplatter: Enabling Cross-Device Efficient Gaussian Splatting in Web Browsers via WebGPU

Code

INPC: Implicit Neural Point Clouds for Radiance Field Rendering

Dense initialization plugin for LichtFeld Studio

Event-Aided Sharp Radiance Field Reconstruction for Fast-Flying Drones

MLSLabsRenderer-Lite (3D Gaussian Splatting UE5 Plugin)

Test-Time Training for Long Context and Autoregressive 3D Reconstruction

Open4D

Splat Apple: 3D Gaussian Splatting on Apple Silicon

Website Updates

This month has brought more updates to the website than any other month in the past year. I completely overhauled radiancefields.com’s search functionality, making it significantly easier to find information. I also introduced tags across different content types, including articles, companies, job listings, and research papers.

I added a much more capable paper and job aggregator as well. I am now confident that we list the majority of open roles available online, and I’m continuing to refine those capabilities. Next, I’ll be refining the research page to better organize the content and revisiting the UIThe Glossary was also completely redone.

The Platforms section is also currently through a rework and will hopefully be released within the next two weeks.

I’m also getting closer to deploying a full capture app designed to help people collect the highest quality data possible while remaining completely platform agnostic. My goal is to build the most capable tool for generating splat ready data without forcing you into a specific pipeline. If you’re interested in joining the closed Testflight, add your email to the form.

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It feels like every week the awareness level of gaussian splatting doubles. At least to me. I am seeing so many posts across hobbyists, creators, and professionals across industries.

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at what happened in January.

A$AP Rocky published the music video for Helicopter, where almost every person is dynamic gaussian splatting. I spoke to most of the people involved in the project to learn how they did it. Later that day the article hit #1 on Hacker News!

At CES, NVIDIA unveiled Alpamayo and AlpaSim, the latter of which is powered by 3DGUT. I spoke to Alpamayo PM Matt Cragun about it! Floaters in all radiance fields are being reduced thanks to NVIDIA’s latest paper, PPISP. Multiple platforms added support within 24 hours!

GSOPs 2.9 was released and brings official support for Houdini 21. Developer Irrealix added support for Apple’s SHARP into After Effects.

On the VR side, Spatial Fields just released version 1.2, adding support for XGRIDS LCC format and some amazing dynamic level of detail support. Splatara Scan has continued to ship a bunch of updates to the free Quest scanning platform.

XGRIDS shipped LCC Studio v1.11 with PortalCam HD Enhancement plus a broader push toward unifying viewing + editing workflows. If you’re looking at buying a PortalCam, consider using code RADIANCEFIELDS.

World Labs introduced the World API for Marble and announced the winners of their Winter Challenge.

Nucleus4D announced a $1.5M funding round (Antler + South Loop Ventures), another indicator that radiance field companies are heading into venture trajectories.

January also brought several important development advances.

Lichtfeld Studio continued their steady stream of nightly builds, releasing V.4 with one click downloads. Arrival Space added HDR support and their team seems to be increasing development speed, with some exciting things on the way. DJI expanded their gaussian splatting support beyond Terra, bringing splats to FlightHub 2.

SplatStream continued pushing Vulkan based Gaussian splatting beyond earlier vkgs efforts. PlayCanvas shipped their Engine v2.15 and SplatTransform 1.0. Bitbybit also pushed out new 3DGS shadows support. Meanwhile, Gaussian splatting in Julia gained Mac support, pulling Apple GPUs further into the ecosystem.

Annx Studio officially left beta and is now a paid service.

Gaussian Splatting on YouTube

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Here are a collection of videos I made in January:

Interview with NVIDIA PM, Matt Cragun.

If you have a smartphone, you may already have everything you need to create great splats! I put together an overview of how to make great captures, specifically with your phone.

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Jobs!

Over the past month, a few companies have let me know they have successfully hired engineers from the Radiancefields.com Job Board. Here is an email I received at the end of last week. For employers, get in touch with me about job listings and if you are interested in working in a gaussian splatting role, upload your resume here!

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer - Neural Graphics Performance.

NVIDIA is looking for a System Software Engineer, Neural Graphics SDKs.

Netflix is looking for a Machine Learning Scientist (L4) - Content & Studio.

GrayMatter Robotics is searching for a Senior Applied AI Engineer.

Dolby is looking for a Multimodal Spatial Experiences Researcher.

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer, 3D Computer Vision.

Zoom is looking for a Video AI Engineer.

Apple is looking for a Computer Vision Research Engineer - Apple Maps 3D Vision Team.

Research

PLANING: A Loosely Coupled Triangle-Gaussian Framework for Streaming 3D Reconstruction

MESH SPLATTING FOR END-TO-END MULTIVIEW SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION

FreeFix: Boosting 3D Gaussian Splatting via Fine-Tuning-Free Diffusion Models

GRTX: Efficient Ray Tracing for 3D Gaussian-Based Rendering

A Step to Decouple Optimization in 3DGS

GR3EN: Generative Relighting for
3D Environments

360Anything: Geometry-Free Lifting of Images and Videos to 360°

LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes

GaussianFluent: Explicit Gaussian Simulation for Dynamic Object States with Mixed Materials

Mon3tr: Monocular 3D Telepresence with Pre-built Gaussian Avatars as Amortization

Animated 3DGS Avatars in Diverse Scenes with Consistent Lighting and Shadows

Code

Point Cloud Tools

GSplat for ROCm

3DGS ply glTF converter

RealityScan Automate and train in LFS

Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes

transforms.json converter from equirectangular to cubemap

Physically-Plausible Image Signal Processing (PPISP) for Radiance Field Reconstruction

FreeTimeGSVanilla

World Labs API Python Client

A Fast Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction Pipeline for Dynamic Point Clouds and Gaussian Splats

AlpaSim: A modular, lightweight, and data-driven research simulator for autonomous driving

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2025 represented a massive change in people’s awareness for radiance field representations, largely due to the rapid adoption of Gaussian Splatting. In this edition, we’ll take a look at some of the most impactful moments from 2025, paired with a couple thoughts of what we may see in 2026 (it’s going to be a lot).

Gaussian Splatting out in the World

Gaussian Splatting was seriously pushed into everyday workflows and popped up across industries. In 2026, this is going to take another major step forwards, with several corporations that I am aware of planning to either ship or experiment with splats.

Media and Entertainment

Nearly two years in the making, the production of Superman dove directly into gaussian splatting and with its release was the first public launch of dynamic gaussian splatting in a major motion picture.

Gaussian Splatting appeared at the BAFTA’s from Harry Nelder, who captured over 40 of the recent award winners and presenters at this year’s British Academy Film Awards. And then Gaussian Splatting returned to the BAFTAs.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 Keynote was littered with splats and even prompted him to acknowledge their beauty.

There were TWO Sutro Tower projects that released, highlighting its 50th anniversary. Check out both of them! (First and Second). Niantic SVP Brian McClendon sits down with Fast Company to talk Scaniverse (coincidentally they used my capture for the header!). I sat down with Visual Features editor at The New Yorker, Sam Wolson, to profile how he’s been using gaussian splatting in journalism. The We Know Good Food campaign went live, with fully HDR gaussian splatting. Capturer Matt Hermans broke down his workflow.

HBO show Dune: Prophecy used gaussian splatting to both visualize and prepare for shots, with an exciting future for the radiance field representation. Sony’s AlphaUniverse published an article about Radiance Fields. Did you know JPEG and MPEG have an association? Did you know they’re preparing for radiance field codecs? Check out this joint workshop from JPEG and MPEG on radiance fields from January.

Gaussian Splatting made an appearance at the ITS Fashion Finale. The Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation released Picture from Auschwitz for virtual production and education purposes.

VFX Supervisors if you used gaussian splatting in a project, please message me!

NeRFs:

Instant-NGP 2.0 released, bringing well above real time rendering rates. From what I understand, Instant-NGP could still reduce training times 5X and double the rendering rates in its current form.

Radiance Surfaces is an additional two lines of code into Instant NGP and doubles rendering rates yet again and brings surface reconstruction. It still blows my mind how relatively little attention this got.

Software Updates:

PlayCanvas shipped SuperSplat 2.0 earlier this year and has become the defacto gaussian splatting editor.

Postshot has ended their beta and released their 1.0. The software introduces paid tiers. While many people are upset about the paid tiers, keep in mind that he has made the software free for nearly two years and there is still a free option to use Postshot.

Brush released the first formal update to the hardware agnostic platform since the beginning of the year.

Mark Zuckerberg showed an expanded Hyperscape Capture with new scenes that looking stunning. Apps Splatara and OpenQuestCapture let you use your headset to capture and export data. Spatial Fields launched for the Vision Pro. HTC Viverse Worlds was announced with 3DGS support for interactive 3D. Apple confirms Personas uses Gaussian Splatting, in addition to their Spatial Photos.

World Labs finally launched with their model, Marble. krpano added gaussian splatting support to their viewer. Former Luma employee Jakub Červený released Splatter.app. VRChat added gaussian splatting support thanks to developer Mykhail Moroz.

Babylon.js released V8.0, along with several improvements to their Gaussian Splatting implementation. World Labs released Gaussian Splatting THREE.js renderer, Spark, which was just named one of the most influential libraries of 2025 by GitHub!

RealityScan 2.0 (formerly RealityCapture) got its formal release. COLMAP 3.12 dropped, adding 360 camera support. PyCuSFM released from NVIDIA.

Varjo released V2.0 of Teleport and is offers honestly close to desktop training fidelity. AWS began offering a cloud based solution for various radiance field representations, including gsplat, 3DGRUT, and more! If you’ve ever wanted to 3D print one of your captures, Cysta.ai is making it happen. They can 3D print .plys or .ingp’s with honestly great fidelity.

OTOY has released OctaneRender 2026, with full path traced gaussian splats and their 2027 version will feature splats as a native export from synthetic scenes. Nuke added Gaussian Splatting support in the open 17.0 beta. Volinga updated both their Unreal Engine Plugin and Volinga processing Suite.

Hardware

XGRIDS launched their PortalCam, with increased capture fidelity and retailing for $5K. If you’re looking at buying one and consider using code RADIANCEFIELDS.

I counted 20 SLAM based scanning companies at Intergeo showcasing gaussian splatting support. Hardware is going to get insane in 2026.

Real Estate

Zillow was the first real estate corporation to formally ship gaussian splatting, adding the capability in SkyTours. CoStar Group owned Apartments.com fired back at Zillow, adding their own exterior Gaussian splatting support through Matterport 3D Exteriors.

AEC and Geospatial

I have spent explaining NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting for the past three years. When I stepped into Intergeo 2025, I realized that was no longer necessary. There was extreme awareness of gaussian splatting, with most vendors either offering it already or excited about its impact on the world. Here are some stories of large geospatial and construction companies embracing the radiance field method.

Esri added Gaussian Splatting support in ArcGIS Pro 2.6. DJI added gaussian splatting support to Terra. Pix4D Adds Georeferencing to Gaussian Splatting. Bentley Systems added experimental Tiles and .spz support to their gaussian splatting implementation in iTwin Modeler.

3DVista added gaussian splatting support. Skyline Software Systems Adds Gaussian Splatting Support. Garver, is using radiance fields to success in AEC. NUBIGON began supporting 3DGS.

Autonomous Vehicles

A trio of NVIDIA executives gave the keynote address and announced the NuRec library for gaussian splatting support aimed at Phyiscal AI applications in Omniverse and Isaac Sim.

I profiled Applied Intuition’s NeuralSim, powered by Gaussian Splatting. Tesla has also been using gaussian splatting. Third Dimension Introduces SuperSim, Simulator Built From Reality.

World Foundation Models, such as NVIDIA’s Cosmos, are beginning to shift conversation of radiance fields into the world of simulation. Last year, we spoke to AV Unicorn Wayve’s Chief Scientist about how they use Radiance Fields to power long tail simulations.

Gaussian Splatting on YouTube

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Here are a collection of videos I made in 2025:

Gaussian Splatting in the Geospatial industry | Google Maps and Radiance Fields |SuperSplat Tutorial | Apple SHARP Tutorial | Meta HyperScape Capture Alternative (Gracia) | XGRIDS PortalCam Review | Arrival Space Vid2Splat | Gaussian Splatting on Mac | Interview with Sanja Fidler (VP, AI NVIDIA) | Infinite Realities 4DGS Profile | Interview with Richard Kerris (VP, M&E NVIDIA)

Research

The amount of papers published about gaussian splatting took a big step forward, with 1,692 on arxiv in 2025. With all the publications and exciting code releases, here were some of my favorite.

Clear-Plenoxels: Floaters free radiance fields without neural networks

EDGS: Eliminating Densification for Efficient Convergence of 3DGS

Efficient Perspective-Correct 3D Gaussian Splatting Using Hybrid Transparency

Einstein Fields: A neural perspective to computational general relativity

Editable Physically-based Reflections in Raytraced Gaussian Radiance Fields

FreeTimeGS: Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

GSCache: Real-Time Radiance Caching for Volume Path Tracing using 3D Gaussian Splatting

HoGS: Unified Near and Far Object Reconstruction via Homogeneous Gaussian Splatting

Hardware-Rasterized Ray-Based Gaussian Splatting (Cough Meta Hyperscape!)

GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera Control

GSFix3D: Diffusion-Guided Repair of Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting

LinPrim: Linear Primitives for Differentiable Volumetric Rendering

LODGE: Level-of-Detail Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting with Efficient Rendering

Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation

MeshSplatting: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Meshes

MILo: Mesh-In-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Detailed and Efficient Surface Reconstruction

NVIDIA Fixer

PowerGS: Display-Rendering Power Co-Optimization for Foveated Radiance-Field Rendering in Power-Constrained XR Systems

Radiance Meshes for Volumetric Reconstruction

Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss

Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery

Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

Spherical Voronoi: Directional Appearance as a Differentiable Partition of the Sphere

StochasticSplats: Stochastic Rasterization for Sorting-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting

TNT-GS: Truncated and Tailored Gaussian Splatting

Triangle Splatting+: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Triangles

Universal Beta Splatting

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If you would like to read any of the Newsletters from 2025, they are all listed below:

January: Radiance Fields in 2025

February: Several New Radiance Fields Announced!

March: The Beauty of Gaussian Splats

April: Gaussian Splatting April Wrap Up!

May: What’s New in Radiance Fields: Platforms, Research, and Opportunities

June: Triangle Splatting Gaining Steam

July: Zillow, DJI, and Esri? Gaussian Splatting is Arriving Everywhere

August: Superman, SIGGRAPH, and Splats: This Month in Radiance Fields

September: The Latest in 3DGS: Tools, Breakthroughs, and Jobs

October: October in 3DGS: Dune Prophecy, Apple, Tesla, and More!

November: Gaussian Splatting: Industry Moves, Research, and Job Opportunities

December: You’re reading it right now :)

Website Direction

With the added awareness of gaussian splatting and lifelike 3D out in the world, I am shifting the design and content presence of my online presence. When I first began publishing (the three year anniversary was just a couple days ago!), there were very few resources on the internet and so the website was dedicated to changing that. The landscape has changed so much in just the past three months and so the projects I am undertaking are going to reflect that.

There are two concurrent projects that I am undertaking. One that I think would be quite impactful for the general public’s awareness of gaussian splatting and a second moonshot project I believe will attract an extreme amount of attention.

I am now 100% convinced that radiance field representations like gaussian splatting are a fundamental imaging medium and that in 2026 we will see an accelerated shift of imaging into 3D. As a critical mass has begun to be built for 3DGS and how simple it is to capture, process, and distribute, we’re entering a moment where 2D imagery will begin, almost imperceptibly, to feel incomplete.

With all of this in mind, the website and the content that is released will shift towards how radiance fields are being used out in the real world and act as the marketing department for this exciting technology. In addition to also contemplating how content will be created and disseminated over the next 18 months, I am hoping to significantly accelerate its arrival and am taking the steps necessary to facilitate that.

This is going to be an exciting year. Hopefully the industries highlighted in this newsletter showcase the generalized appeal working in lifelike 3D holds.

For the first two and a half years of writing on radiancefields.com, I genuinely assumed nobody was reading the publication. Despite having access to all the analytics and social following, I am a team of one and hear feedback less often than you probably imagine.

Going to conferences this year and meeting people in person was eye opening for me. I am very appreciative of all the readers and supporters of this channel! I am very happy that the website has been a helpful resource for people and to have played a small role in helping spread awareness about lifelike 3D. My goal is to accelerate the move from 2D into 3D for the rest of time, which I now view to be inevitable and relatively imminent.

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OTOY has released OctaneRender 2026, with full path traced gaussian splats and their 2027 version will feature splats as a native export from synthetic scenes. Architectural render engine, Corona from Chaos, has added gaussian splatting support. World Labs finally launched with their model, Marble.

Apartments.com fires back at Zillow, adding their own exterior Gaussian splatting support through Matterport 3D Exteriors. At NeurIPS, NVIDIA Releases Omniverse NuRec Fixer. Adobe teased a “radiance field” editor called Project New Depths at Adobe MAX.

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Apple confirms Personas uses Gaussian Splatting, in addition to their Spatial Photos. Spatial Fields for the AVP releases v1.1, bringing better color accuracy and …

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Mark Zuckerberg showed an expanded Hyperscape Capture with new scenes that looking stunning. Incredibly, all of these captures were created by the Quest headset camera! On the Vision Pro, Spatial Fields just hit the app store.

Brush released the first formal update to the hardware agnostic platform since the beginning of the year. 3DGS in Houdini plugin GSOPs added a new Histogram node. OctaneRender added gaussian splatting support to Cinema4D Version 2026.

In Blender, a couple of new Plugins emerged. There was free plugin GaussCannon, in addition to V4.0 of KIRI Engine’s Blender Plugin.

Game engine UNIGINE Adds Gaussian Splatting support.

I published a trio of interviews with the NVIDIA team at SIGGRAPH. I spoke to VP of Media & Entertainment, Richard Kerris, Manager of Neural Reconstruction, Nick Schneider, and Director of NVIDIA Research Shalini DeMello.

PlayCanvas unveield their newest compression method, Spatially Ordered Gaussians (Not SOGs).

On the hardware side, DJI unveiled the Mini Pro 5 (not available in the US). GreenValley International released the LiGrip O2 SLAM Scanner, and the XGRIDS PortalCam is still hard to beat. If you’re looking at buying one and want 5% off, consider using code RADIANCEFIELDS.

World Labs unveiled their newest model, Marble, and also released V.1.9 of three.js 3DGS renderer, Spark.

Research

The pace of papers slowed a bit this month, but should pick up as conference season swings back in.

Triangle Splatting+: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Triangles

PowerGS: Display-Rendering Power Co-Optimization for Foveated Radiance-Field Rendering in Power-Constrained XR Systems

HyRF : Hybrid Radiance Fields for Memory-efficient and High-quality Novel View Synthesis

Avat3r: Large Animatable Gaussian Reconstruction Model for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatars

Code

VGGT-X: When VGGT Meets Dense Novel View Synthesis

3D Gaussian Flats: Hybrid 2D/3D Photometric Scene Reconstruction

Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation

GeoSVR: Taming Sparse Voxels for Geometrically Accurate Surface Reconstruction

AD-GS: Alternating Densification for Sparse-Input 3D Gaussian Splatting

MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction

CAP4D: Creating Animatable 4D Portrait Avatars with Morphable Multi-View Diffusion Models

RayGaussX: Accelerating Gaussian-Based Ray Marching for Real-Time and High-Quality Novel View Synthesis

4DGT: Learning a 4D Gaussian Transformer Using Real-World Monocular Videos

MILo: Mesh-In-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Detailed and Efficient Surface Reconstruction

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Bosch is looking for a Lead Research Scientist- GenAI for 3D Computer Vision.

Swaybox Studios is looking for a Unreal TD.

TikTok is looking for a Research Scientist Graduate Graphics Engine - 2026 Start (PhD).

CoStar Group are searching for a Staff Machine Learning R&D Engineer.

Booz Allen Hamilton is looking for a Computer Vision Expert.

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If you saw the recently released Superman and didn’t notice the dynamic gaussian splatting, that was kind of the point. I spoke to Framestore about how every shot of the Kryptonian’s parents were done with gaussian splatting. CGNomads release version 2.7 of GSOPs for Houdini, which was used in the Superman project.

Postshot has ended their beta and released their 1.0. The software introduces paid tiers. While many people are upset about the paid tiers, keep in mind that he has made the software free for nearly two years and there is still a free option to use Postshot.

PlayCanvas released version two of compression method SOGs and file sizes continue to become shrink, with spherical harmonic support. They are also marching towards a bunch of big improvements to gaussian splatting’s architecture on the web.

Sam Wolson at The New Yorker released a new story, with a much larger gaussian splatting presence.

XGRIDS launched their PortalCam, with increased capture fidelity and retailing for $5K. If you’re looking at buying one and want 5% off, consider using code RADIANCEFIELDS.

Gaussian Splatting got a decimator tool, built on Nerfstudio’s gsplat. I also profiled the deicmator author Felix Hirt on his work with a portable camera rig.

Guest author Drew Moffitt contributed an article about how his company, Garver, is using radiance fields to success in AEC.

Gaussian Splatting viewer, Reflct launched out of beta! NVIDIA updated their vkSplatting playground to now support 3DGRT. NVIDIA also released Kaolin V0.18.0, bringing physics based collisions for Gaussian Splatting.

Janusch, AKA Mr.NeRF’s, inaugural bounty was completed, bringing a roughly two and a half training time speed uphttps://radiancefields.com/mr-nerf-3dgs-bounty-winner-announced to his open source CUDA 3DGS repo.

If you have a Vision Pro, I highly recommend checking out the Spatial Fields app. They just released version .5 of their beta and carry SH support on device.

SIGGRAPH 2025

SIGGRAPH occured in Vancouver this month and featured several important gaussian splatting updates.

A trio of NVIDIA executives gave the keynote address and announced the NuRec library for gaussian splatting support aimed at Phyiscal AI applications in Omniverse and Isaac Sim.

If you’ve ever wanted to 3D print one of your captures, Cysta.ai is making it happen. They can 3D print .plys or .ingp’s with honestly great fidelity. They were recognized with a Best in Show Award. At Real Time Live at SIGGRAPH, Infinite Studio (4DV) also won first place for their demo of dynamic gaussian splatting.

Chaos Arena added support for gaussian splatting!

Research

The pace of papers slowed a bit this month, but should pick up as conference season swings back in.

Towards Integrating Multi-Spectral Imaging with Gaussian Splatting

AAA-Gaussians: Anti-Aliased and Artifact-Free 3D Gaussian Rendering

Pixie: Physics from Pixels

Seam360GS: Seamless 360° Gaussian Splatting from Real-World Omnidirectional Images

FastAvatar: Pose-Invariant 3D Face Reconstruction via Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting

A Bag of Tricks for Efficient Implicit Neural Point Clouds

Real-time 3D Visualization of Radiance Fields on Light Field Displays

3DGS-LM: Faster Gaussian-Splatting Optimization with Levenberg-Marquardt

LongSplat: Robust Unposed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Casual Long Videos

GSFix3D: Diffusion-Guided Repair of Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting

Distilled-3DGS: Distilled 3D Gaussian Splatting

Improving Densification in 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Rendering

Echoes of the Coliseum: Towards 3D Live streaming of Sports Events

ViPE: Video Pose Engine for 3D Geometric Perception

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Waymo is looking for a Technical Program Manager, Onboard.

Zoox is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer - Generative AI.

Tavus is looking for a AI Researcher (Voice).

Parallel Domain is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer.

Snap is looking for a Research Scientist, Animation Direction, Level 4.

Huawei are searching for a 3D Graphics Engine Lead Architect.

Toyota is looking for a Research Scientist, Latent State Inference for World Models.

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This month featured more large scale companies announcing support for gaussian splatting than any prior.

Zillow is bringing gaussian splatting support to select Showcase listings, as SkyTour. It runs on both desktop and mobile.

Leading geospatial company, Esri, also announced they will support gaussian splatting within ArcGIS. They have the capability of large scale reconstructions on city scale and larger! DJI added gaussian splatting support to Terra, its geospatial software. Their implementation can process up to 30,000 images per training run.

krpano added gaussian splatting support to their viewer and it’s a great tool! It’s easy to use with powerful features. If you’re looking for a way to create narratives with gaussian splatting, it’s a great choice. Arrival Space released version .81, adding spatial sounds, in addition to revamping the content layers, making it much easier to navigate the backend.

Gracia added a native viewer for Mac. GSOPs added support for both Karma and Solaris rendering within Houdini.

NVIDIA released Instant NGP 2.0. Rendering rates are radically increased, all the way up to and past one hundred fps for some captures for me. Additionally training times are also 1.5X faster. This is a big deal!

Nerfstudio released gsplat 1.5.3, bringing all major APIs, including 3DGS, 2DGS, and 3DGUT, have been updated to handle multiple batch dimensions. They also released Viser 1.0!

Postshot has added a ton of new features this month, including April Tag support. Postshot can be accessed here.

AWS began offering a cloud based solution for various radiance field representations, including gsplat, 3DGRUT, and more! Play Canvas has launched Splat Transform, serving as an easy command line conversion tool for 3DGS. VRChat added gaussian splatting support thanks to developer Mykhail Moroz.

I sat down with Visual Features editor at The New Yorker, Sam Wolson, to profile how he’s been using gaussian splatting in journalism.

Videos and Content:

Did you know that Google Maps has supported radiance fields for the past two years? They’re not using what you’re probably expecting.

Jonathan Stephens came out with a couple videos this month. Here’s my favorite!

Olli Huttunen released his Blender plugin for easier 360 video clean up.

Mike Caronna and Brenden Singh released a splat music video in 360 for Nick Diver!

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Hardware

XGRIDS competitors, Stonex and SHARE both added Gaussian Splatting support!

Research

New papers continue to flood in!

NeRF Is a Valuable Assistant for 3D Gaussian Splatting

iLRM: An Iterative Large 3D Reconstruction Model

GSCache: Real-Time Radiance Caching for Volume Path Tracing using 3D Gaussian Splatting

EX-4D: EXtreme Viewpoint 4D Video Synthesis via Depth Watertight Mesh

Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes

Appearance Harmonization via Bilateral Grid Prediction with Transformers for 3DGS

ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions

MILo: Mesh-In-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Detailed and Efficient Surface Reconstruction

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Eyeline Studios (Netflix) is looking for a Applied Innovation Technical Director.

1X Technologies is looking for a Software Engineer, Teleoperation.

Nuro is looking for a Software Engineer, Machine Learning, 3D Reconstruction.

Scanline (Netflix) is looking for a Software Engineer, Stage Pipeline Workflows.

Sherwood Design Engineers are searching for a Computational Designer - Geometry Specialist.

Parallel Domain is looking for a Senior Game Engine Programmer.

Code Releases:

VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (License Change!)

DASH: Self-Supervised Decomposition and 4D Hash Encoding for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering

Hunyuan3D World Model

LangSplatV2: High-dimensional 3D Language Gaussian Splatting with 450+ FPS

SPaGS: Fast and Accurate 3D Gaussian Splatting for Spherical Panoramas

NeRF in Rust

Open Source 3D Reconstruction Toolbox for Gaussian Splats

Einstein Fields: A neural perspective to computational general relativity.

Cameras as Relative Positional Encoding

Radiance Surfaces

TNT-GS: Truncated and Tailored Gaussian Splatting

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Software updates:

COLMAP 3.12 dropped, adding 360 camera support. RealityScan 2.0 (formerly RealityCapture) got its formal release.…

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2. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

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Nerfstudio’s gpslat has brought 3DGUT support, which brings ray traced effects to rasterization. I launched an Association, ARC3D, to lobby for radiance field representations!

Gaussian Splatting returned to the BAFTAs and this time with 32 cameras to capture award winners and presenters. The We Know Good Food campaign went live, with fully HDR gaussian splatting. Capturer Matt Hermans broke down his workflow.

World Labs released Gaussian Splatting THREE.js renderer, Forge. Odyssey showed the first public preview of their Interactive Video. Try it for two minutes at a time! New generative 3D company, SpAItial, launches with $13M in seed funding.

Veesus makes it easier to remove sky and tree floaters with Radiance Clear. They also added 3DGS support for their Rhino plugin. 3DVista added compressed ply and SPZ Support. Volinga pushed out an update their Unreal Engine plugin. NUBIGON began supporting 3DGS in their latest release.

Spatial Fields is a new VR 3DGS app for the Vision Pro that supports spherical harmonics.

New cloud based 3DGS platform, Parallax 3D released. People who have been wanting an more friendly way to train 3DGS on Mac can check out ANNX Studio. Blurry is making sharing captures easier.

XGRIDS had a few exciting releases. They shipped LCC Studio 1.8, bringing HD Enhancement, in addition to releasing their Autodesk Revit plugin. Veesus made it easier to remove sky and tree floaters with Radiance Clear.

PlayCanvas pushed out a couple exciting updates, bringing Self Organizing Gaussian compression their Engine and soon to SuperSplat. They also released a React component for 3DGS viewing.

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Research

New papers continue to flood in!

LODGE: Level-of-Detail Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting with Efficient Rendering

Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss

Wideband RF Radiance Field Modeling Using Frequency-embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting

Triangle Splatting for Real Time Radiance Field Rendering

FruitNeRF++: A Generalized Multi-Fruit Counting Method Utilizing Contrastive Learning and Neural Radiance Fields

Deformable Beta Splatting

RUSplatting: Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-View Underwater Scene Reconstruction

TC-GS: A Faster and Flexible 3DGS Module Utilizing Tensor Cores

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Lucid is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer, 3D Simulation Reconstruction.

Qualcomm is looking for a Video Research Engineer - Immersive Video.

Palantir is looking for a 3D Software Engineer - Application Development.

Apple is looking for a Staff ML Rendering Engineer - Simulation, Special Projects.

Bosch is looking for a AI Research Engineer- Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Code Releases:

On-the-fly Reconstruction for Large-Scale Novel View Synthesis from Unposed Images.

Triangle Splatting for Real Time Radiance Field Rendering

Deformable Beta Splatting

TC-GS: A Faster and Flexible 3DGS Module Utilizing Tensor Cores

3D Gaussian Splatting from scratch with NVIDIA Warp

Fully Fused Differentiable Bilateral Grid

Fast and Robust Gaussian Splatting for Virtual Reality

Live Gaussian Splatting for RGBD Camera Streams

Sparse Point Cloud Patches Rendering via Splitting 2D Gaussians

SGCR: Spherical Gaussians for Efficient 3D Curve Reconstruction

Website Updates:

The website now features a revised Platforms page, with more updates to come! I also added an event guide to make finding conferences easier.

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April featured more and more captures, with an expanding user base and some exciting platform updates. I visited Infinite Realities in the United Kingdom last year to show what is probably the state of the art on dynamic Gaussian Splatting.

We then open sourced over 300K images of me, in addition to 1,800 trained 3DGS plys for people to experiment with and a Unity VR demo! These are the first of several YouTube videos that will be released over the next month. Please consider subscribing to the Radiance Field YouTube channel!

The inaugural 3DISE conference happened in Prague and there was so much excitement around Radiance Field representations, like Gaussian Splatting! The talks were recorded, but no word yet when they will be released.

One of the original authors of NeRF, Jon Barron, gave a keynote running through the progression of Radiance Fields at 3DV.

NVIDIA quietly released vulkan_gaussian_splatting for easy prototyping. Speaking of NVIDIA, I published an interview with VP of Simulation and Omniverse, Rev Lebaredian.

Varjo released V2.0 of Teleport and is now offering honestly close to desktop training fidelity. Reflct open sourced a Python version of their Sharp Frames selector, expanding the options for people on Mac, AMD, and Intel for fast image selection!

Arrival.Space has put out a bunch of updates to their platform. Ecommerce 3DGS app, Doly has added a Shopify plugin.

Unreal Engine was a hot topic last month with a plugin update from Volinga. Japan based Preferred Networks also announced a 3DGS UE 5 plugin that brings awesome features such as relighting, shadow casting and high speed rendering.

XGRIDS release LCC Studio 1.7, bringing HD enhancement and the ability to pair drone footage with captures! XGRIDS competitor 3DMakerPro added Gaussian Splatting support to their platform, Raystudio.

Former Luma employee Jakub Červený released Splatter.app, which has progressive loading and level of detail already implemented. During its beta period, he is allowing unlimited ply uploads, so take advantage of it while it lasts! People wanting to convert meshes into 3DGS should rejoice about the release of Mesh2Splat, offering lightning fast conversions.

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Research

New papers continue to flood in!

Speedy-Splat: Fast 3D Gaussian Splatting with Sparse Pixels and Sparse Primitives

PUP 3D-GS: Principled Uncertainty Pruning for 3D Gaussian Splatting

TransparentGS: Fast Inverse Rendering of Transparent Objects with Gaussians

When Gaussian Meets Surfel: Ultra-fast High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

ShowMak3r: Compositional TV Show Reconstruction

ToF-Splatting: Dense SLAM using Sparse Time-of-Flight Depth and Multi-Frame Integration

St4RTrack: Simultaneous 4D Reconstruction and Tracking in the World

AAA-Gaussians: Anti-Aliased and Artifact-Free 3D Gaussian Rendering

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We now offer placement services, for totally free! Upload your resume to this page!

Apple is looking for a Computer Vision Software Engineer.

Apple is looking for a Machine Learning / Computer Vision Engineer - Generative AI.

Meta’s Reality Labs is looking for a Software Engineer, Computer Vision - Hyperscape Dense Reconstruction.

Huawei is looking for a Principal Engineer - Neural Visual Computing.

Bosch is looking for a Senior Research Scientist / Engineer for End-to-End Autonomous Systems.

Code releases:

Ref-GS: Directional Factorization for 2D Gaussian Splatting

Luminance-GS: Adapting 3D Gaussian Splatting to Challenging Lighting Conditions with View-Adaptive Curve Adjustment

EDGS: Eliminating Densification for Efficient Convergence of 3DGS

GaussHDR: High Dynamic Range Gaussian Splatting via Learning Unified 3D and 2D Local Tone Mapping

DiET-GS: Diffusion Prior and Event Stream-Assisted Motion Deblurring 3D Gaussian Splatting

TSGS: Improving Gaussian Splatting for Transparent Surface Reconstruction via Normal and De-lighting Priors

Drag Your Gaussian: Effective Drag-Based Editing with Score Distillation for 3D Gaussian Splatting

GPS-Gaussian+: Generalizable Pixel-Wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Human-Scene Rendering from Sparse Views

BIGS: Bimanual Category-agnostic Interaction Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via 3D Gaussian Splatting

LayerPano3D: Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation

Website Updates:

There have been small updates to the homepage to make paper discovery easier, in addition to reintroducing recent articles.

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March came and went with several updates and exciting demos shown off.

NVIDIA’s GTC was the epicenter, with CEO Jensen Huang showi…

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As we transition from flat screens to spatial computing, through smart glasses and VR headsets, there’s a growing need for photorealistic 3D content that is both high-fidelity and lightweight enough for real-time visualization. Radiance Fields representations such as Gaussian splatting fit perfectly into th…

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Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

3. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

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February was a very busy month, with multiple novel Radiance Field representations either published, receiving a code release, or both!

Scaniverse has continued to ship updates, fulfilling their promise to create a full Quest App, allowing users to explore the world with other people’s captures. Scaniverse said they are currently at 50,000 captures, with more rising every day. They also have been blitzing out media awareness, with Niantic SVP Brian McClendon sitting down with Fast Company. The cover gif also happened to be one that I took during coverage of the Elizabeth Street Garden.

PlayCanvas’s SuperSplat has been on fire, shipping SuperSplat 2.0. Several new features are now here, with a Discover Page, camera keyframes, tonemapping, and more! Access 2.0 on their new domain at superspl.at and the editor at https://superspl.at/editor.

Polycam made “their biggest announcement ever”, but if you were able to discern exactly what was announced, please let me know. Their video content was catered to Enterprise customers, but the tone more towards indie content creators?

Miris showed the first public teaser of their ability to stream Radiance Fields and other next gen content.

And the BAFTA goes to Harry Nelder, who captured over 40 of the recent award winners and presenters at this year’s British Academy Film Awards. Nelder used a combination of his own cloud processing engine, paired with Postshot.

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There were TWO Sutro Tower projects that released this month, highlighting its 50th anniversary. Check out both of them! (First and Second)

In Denver, GeoWeek 2025 took place and there was an immense amount of interest in Gaussian Splatting. I gave two talks and was surprised by the level of interest. Simultaneously, Photogrammetry powerhouse, Pix4D announced 3DGS support.

NVIDIA’s GTC is just a couple weeks away now and there are a few talks revolving around Radiance Fields. I’ll be giving one of those talks, so please reach out if you’ll be attending! My co-panelist, Patrick Wallis from ESRI wrote up a blog about the intersection of GeoAI and Radiance Fields. I’ve also heard rumors about Radiance Field demos taking place onsite, so keep an eye out.

Chaos V-Ray has continued to roll out platform support for 3DGS, this month it was for SketchUp and Rhino.

There have been three new radiance field representations to start the year! The newest ones have been Radiant Foam, SV Raster, and LinPrim. The first two already have code published that you can begin using.

The View Dependent Podcast will resume shortly with an incredible bevy of guests. If you missed the conclusion of Season 1, we closed it speaking to Co-first author of 3D Gaussian Splatting, Bernhard Kerbl. The View Dependent Podcast is now available to stream on YouTube and all major Podcasting platforms.

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Research

Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

Avat3r: Large Animatable Gaussian Reconstruction Model for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatars.

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting.

EditSplat: Multi-View Fusion and Attention-Guided Optimization for View-Consistent 3D Scene Editing with 3D Gaussian Splatting.

No Parameters, No Problem: 3D Gaussian Splatting without Camera Intrinsics and Extrinsics.

Does 3D Gaussian Splatting Need Accurate Volumetric Rendering?

OpenFly: A Versatile Toolchain and Large-scale Benchmark for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation.

VR-Pipe: Streamlining Hardware Graphics Pipeline for Volume Rendering.

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Who’s Hiring:

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Waymo is looking for a Senior Research Scientist, 3D Reconstruction.

Eyeline Studios is looking for a Research Intern (Summer 2025).

Applied Intuition is looking for a 3D Reconstruction Engineer.

Niantic is looking for a Senior Computer Vision Software Engineer.

NVIDIA is looking for a Deep Learning Engineer, Generative AI and 3D Reconstruction.

Code releases:

MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors

Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

SV Raster: Sparse Voxels Rasterizer

Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video

Website Updates:

Radiancefields.com quietly received several updates to the platform. Several pages have been revisited, including About Us, Contact Us, Contributors, Authors, and Affiliates.

We have also introduced a Glossary and a Timeline view of a handful of impactful Radiance Field papers. Newly added Tag pages will make narrowing in on your interest easier. For instance, if you want to see articles about Virtual Reality, it’s now easier than ever!

Throughout this month, several new pages and functionality on the website will be updated and pushed out. Please let me know what could make the website a better experience!

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Michael Rubloff

Radiancefields.com

Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

3. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

Industry Updates

In the first newsletter of the year we have a ton of exciting updates.

Brush, the platform that lets you train 3DGS on any platform, from Mac, to AMD, to Intel, or NVIDIA received its first major update, bringing a one click download and greatly expanded functionalities.

My Co-host on the View Dependent Podcast, Mr.NeRF has been posting some astonishing progress on his dynamic pipeline. VRAM usage continues to plummet in dynamic reconstructions.

We got a sneak peak into some of the preeminent reconstruction companies, such as Bentley Systems, Hexagon, Microsoft, and Meta at the Metaverse Standards Forum meeting.

NVIDIA also announced they will open source both 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing (this is not Gaussian Splatting) and 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform. These papers are both big deals and I hope that NVIDIA will release them, soon.

Instant-NGP creator, Thomas Müller, quietly added Blackwell and DLSS 4 support to Instant-NGP. While I don’t have access to the newest generation of cards, I will be curious to see how DLSS 4 affects NeRF rendering rates. I would pay very close attention to neural rendering capabilities over the course of this year.

World Foundation Models, such as NVIDIA’s recently announced Cosmos, are beginning to shift conversation of radiance fields into the world of simulation. Last year, we spoke to AV Unicorn Wayve’s Chief Scientist about how they use Radiance Fields to power long tail simulations.

Also included at CES were two Radiance Fields that NVIDIA Co-Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang used to bring attendees into NVIDIA during his Keynote address.

Fan favorite Postshot has unleashed a flurry of continual updates, including V.5 and Blackwell support. There’s no word yet when Postshot will leave its free beta phase.

There was another exciting forum on Radiance Fields, this time it was a joint workshop from JPEG and MPEG. I was also fortunate enough to speak, alongside Eunbyung Park, Davi Lazzarotto, Yiyi Liao, and Professor Angjoo Kanazawa. The Workshop was recorded, but has not been published yet.

Spline released Spell, which generates interactive 3D objects using the Radiance Field method, Gaussian Splatting.

Nerfstudio has very quietly merged a massive PR. Nerfstudio also added an Autodesk Maya extension.

OTOY’s OctaneRender 2026.1Alpha added a path traced 3DGS support. Chaos V-Ray has added support for Cinema 4D and Houdini.

The View Dependent Podcast will resume shortly with an incredible bevy of guests. If you missed the conclusion of Season 1, we closed it speaking to Co-first author of 3D Gaussian Splatting, Bernhard Kerbl. The View Dependent Podcast is now available to stream on YouTube and all major Podcasting platforms.

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Research

StructuredField: Unifying Structured Geometry and Radiance Field

LinPrim: Linear Primitives for Differentiable Volumetric Rendering

Relightable Full-body Gaussian Codec Avatars

HAC++: Towards 100X Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting

RaySplats: Ray Tracing based Gaussian Splatting

Deformable Beta Splatting

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Who’s Hiring:

The Job Board on Radiancefields.com is live. If you have an opening, get in touch! We are beginning to offer placement services, at no cost to you. Send us your resume from this page if you’d like to enroll!

Sony is looking for a Intern, Applied Research.

AMD is looking for a AI/ML Compiler Development Engineer.

EagleView is looking for a Research Engineer I.

Meta Reality Labs is looking for a Codec Avatars Research Scientist.

Apple is looking for a Machine Learning/Neural Rendering Algorithm Engineer.

Code releases:

Wonderland: Navigating 3D Scenes from a Single Image

Clear-Plenoxels: Floaters free radiance fields without neural networks

HAC++: Towards 100X Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting

View-consistent 3D Editing with Gaussian Splatting

DiffSplat: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Scalable 3D Gaussian Splat Generation

Don’t Splat your Gaussians: Volumetric Ray-Traced Primitives for Modeling and Rendering Scattering and Emissive Media

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That’s it for this one. Please feel free to reach out for anything and see you next time!

Michael Rubloff

Radiancefields.com

Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

3. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

Industry Updates

Amazon has burst onto the scene, repeatedly demoing their implementation of Gaussian Splatting on their webstore. GSOPs, bringing …

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Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

3. Interview with The Weather Channel and their Emmy winning Radiance Field tool, FloodFX.

4. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

Industry Updates

The larger ecosystem around Radiance Fields…

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Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. New papers that might be changing the landscape.

3. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

4. Interview with Johnny Núñez, who ported Nerfstudio onto the NVIDIA Jetson.

5. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

Industry Updates

Lots of …

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Contained in this month’s update:

1. Exciting updates to platforms and general industry news.

2. New papers that might be changing the landscape.

3. What companies are hiring for Radiance Fields, right now!

4. Interview with FutureDeluxe, creative studio behind Arc’teryx’s NeRF campaign.

5. Code releases for you to try out!

Let’s get into it!

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