Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
This software converts Gaussian Splat 3D models into playable video game environments using the PlayCanvas platform. It is designed for developers and creators who want to transform 3D scene captures into interactive… 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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2024 · playcanvas.com · its alternatives →
- 2RT
2023 · antimatter15.com · its alternatives →
- 3MA
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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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 →
- 5RT
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.
2025 · 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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The Setup: https://i.imgur.com/o0hgybh.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/mcNiomp.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/vIjw6pc.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/nzOwmSC.jpeg
May 2026 · superspl.at · its alternatives →
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Explore San Francisco
2025 · vincentwoo.com · its alternatives →
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RadianceKit▲95Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.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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Splattr▲7Create 3D Gaussian Splats in the cloud, no setup required
2025 · splattr.app · its alternatives →
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Splatara▲8Visualize any project over time with 3D Gaussian Splatting
2025 · splatara.cloud · 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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Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…
2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PlayCanvas▲90Create amazing games, AR and VR using just your browser!
2015 · playcanvas.com · its alternatives →
- 19IB
I've been working on an MMORPG that is now in alpha as a solo developer. Here are the major open source technologies that I use: Blender - 3D modeling software for creating the overall environment and every game object. I've gotten a lot of CC and Public Domain assets from https://poly.pizza GLTF - I export assets from blender to the GLTF asset format JSON - I write a JSON config for every game object that describes things like its name, its interactions, its collisions, etc. Node.js exporter - I iterate over the environment and every asset to create a scene hierarchy. I use…
2024 · alpha.reconquer.online · its alternatives →
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Photoshop but it’s for Gaussian splats and 3D worlds
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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- 22Wworldsplat▲70
Sketch in 3D then generate the scene instantly
Sep 2026 · worldsplat.app · its alternatives →
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Bauble is a toy that I've been working on for a few weeks, and I think it's reached the point where other people could have fun with it! Bauble is based on raymarching signed distance functions, which are kind of like... 3D vector art? They're pretty common in the procedural art community and you can do some amazing things with them, but normally writing SDFs means writing low-level shader code. I wanted to play with SDFs, but I found it very frustrating to translate "I want to rotate this" into "okay, that means I have to construct a rotation matrix, and then apply it to the current point,…
2022 · bauble.studio · 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 →
Also compare
- SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor alternatives
- Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL alternatives
- Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats alternatives
- Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js alternatives
- Real-Time Gaussian Splatting alternatives
- SplatGallery – A Community-Driven Gallery for Gaussian Splats alternatives
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