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Spatial Fields 1.3 — NVIDIA’s Ray-Traceable Splats Just Landed on Your iPhone, Vision Pro, and Apple TV
One small dev shop in Brooklyn just pulled off a quiet miracle. Spatial Fields 1.3, the only…
SPZ 4 — The Boring Little File Format Powering 800,000 Photoshop Splats Just Got 3× Faster
Niantic just rebuilt the plumbing under every Gaussian splat workflow that matters. SPZ 4 brings parallel ZSTD decoding, a plaintext header, vendor extensions (Adobe shipped one already), SH degree 4, and the death of the 10-million-point cap — with up to 20× faster WASM loading.
BlendSplat — Native Gaussian Splatting Lands in Blender, and It’s Free
For two years, importing a Gaussian Splat into Blender meant the same dance: install KIRI’s 3DGS Render,…
NVIDIA vkSplatting 2026.1 — Jensen’s GTC Surprise: Multi-Instance Splats With Ray-Traced Shadows, Open Source
NVIDIA dropped vkSplatting 2026.1 straight into Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote — and it’s not a tech demo….
XGRIDS Lixel K2 — Engineering-Grade Gaussian Splatting Just Dropped to £6,549 in a 1.2 kg Box
Two days ago in Prague, XGRIDS quietly knocked the floor out of the handheld Gaussian Splatting market….
OctaneRender 2026 — OTOY Just Made Gaussian Splats First-Class Citizens in a Path Tracer
Every other splat renderer rasterizes. OTOY built the first one that ray-traces. In Octane 2026 a Gaussian…
Photoshop 27.6 — Adobe Just Smuggled Gaussian Splatting Into Every Designer’s Toolbox
Look at the changelog for Photoshop 27.6 and you’ll see the usual Adobe blockbuster moves: Reflection Removal,…
SpAItial Echo-2 — The German Lab That Just Out-Splatted Marble, HunyuanWorld and Lyra With One Drop
Four months after their debut model, a small German lab nobody outside Twitter had heard of just…
Mickmumpitz Just Killed the Render Farm — AI Renderer 2.0 Turns Rough Blender Layouts Into Cinematic Footage Locally
If you’ve ever spent a Sunday night watching a 12-second Cycles render trickle frame by frame, this…
Dioramix — Olli Huttunen Just Built the Storytelling Tool Gaussian Splats Have Been Begging For
Here is the dirty secret of the Gaussian Splatting boom: we got incredibly good at capturing the…