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24 alternatives to Real-Time Gaussian Splatting

LiveSplat is a system for turning RGBD camera streams into Gaussian splat scenes in real-time. The system works by passing all the RGBD frames into a feed forward neural net that outputs the current scene as Gaussian splats. These splats are then rendered in real-time. I've put together a demo video at the link above.

Real-Time Gaussian Splatting is a system that converts RGBD camera streams into Gaussian splat 3D scenes in real-time. It uses a feed-forward neural network to process video frames and output scene representations as… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Apr 2026 · blog.playcanvas.com · its alternatives →

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    May 2026 · superspl.at · its alternatives →

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    Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac

    Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →

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    I'm the co-creator and maintainer of https://aframe.io/ and long time Web 3D graphics dev. Super excited about new techniques to author / render / represent 3D. Spark is a an open source library to easily integrate Gaussian splats in your THREE.js scene I worked with some friends and I hope you find useful. Looking forward to hearing what features / rendering techniques you would love to see next.

    2025 · sparkjs.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I’m excited to share this open-source community mashup showing the power and possibility of combining 3D Gaussian splat scans with traditional mesh-based 3D tiles maps in the browser. As you've probably seen on HN a bunch lately, Gaussian splats are a new method to allow custom 3D scans of scenes and objects [1] and Google Maps 3D Tiles API are the same 3D buildings and street views your familiar with in Google Earth or Google Maps, and recently they’ve been made available for inclusion in web apps. Combining splats + 3d map mixes highly detailed real-world custom micro-scans with…

    2024 · maps-and-splats.glitch.me · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I'm the author of this toy project that combines the idea of live-edit Shadertoy scenes with the popular gaussian splatting, aka 3DGS. You can write a GLSL function that defines the splats and see it rendered in real-time. Your GLSL code isn't stored anywhere, but you can share it via URL. P.S. I'm not a Spark developer. I'm just using their rendering engine.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I just launched SplatGallery, a platform where you can share and discover the best 3D models created with Gaussian Splatting. It's a super early stage and new models are coming it fairly often. Would love to get feedback from the HN community on how to improve it!

    2024 · splatgallery.com · its alternatives →

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    Sketch in 3D then generate the scene instantly

    Sep 2026 · worldsplat.app · its alternatives →

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    Turn static shots into fast-moving showreels – like magic.

    2025 · glims.io · its alternatives →

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    The GPT moment for real-time computer graphics

    Mar 2026 · nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've built TRELLIS 3D AI, an open tool that converts 2D images into professional 3D assets using advanced AI technology. Technical Implementation: - Browser-based processing using WebGL - Structured LATents (SLAT) for maintaining geometric integrity - Dual output pipeline generating both GLB and 3D Gaussian formats - Real-time 3D preview using Three.js - Optimized for processing images up to 2048x2048px The core technology combines: - Pretrained vision encoders for image understanding - Rectified flow transformers for 3D geometry generation - Advanced neural networks for texture…

    2024 · trellis3d.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP. What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create 3D Gaussian Splats in the cloud, no setup required

    2025 · splattr.app · its alternatives →

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    Visualize any project over time with 3D Gaussian Splatting

    2025 · splatara.cloud · its alternatives →

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    An introduction to non-line-of-sight imaging, and how to create images of hidden objects around a corner in under 10 minutes!

    2019 · analytech-solutions.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    3dgs

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I was playing with this for a few weeks over the holiday break. This is one of the GS3D sample scenes running on PCVR at about 65 FPS. I'm sorting on the CPU at the moment, so there are some hitches, but it works! I may publish this as a Unity asset. (I'd love to get it working on Vision Pro, but we'll see.)

    2024 · youtube.com · its alternatives →

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    Things orbital and not.

    2016 · orbides.org · its alternatives →

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    Free and open source 3D gaussian splatting in C++

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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