Reading up on 3D Gaussian Splatting

A developer just killed the real estate walkthrough industry by scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it. Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment. Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal. The economics are brutal for the old model: → Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000 → Cost to produce this scan: roughly $200 → Time to "tour" 50 houses: one evening → File size: smaller than a TikTok clip The science is wild too: It runs on 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons. Millions of tiny glowing splats of color and depth reconstruct the scene from your photos, and it loads photoreal on a phone. Freelancers are already charging $300 to $800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, and dealerships. One person + one phone + one weekend = a business. Open source. Built on PlayCanvas. Free GitHub:

@bigaiguy

holy crap! apple just beat google to the punch -- 3d gaussian splatting is coming to apple maps. these 3d scenes are made from oblique aerial imagery. but unlike blobby photogrammetry -- no more broccoli trees, no more melted powerlines -- ground level detail that actually holds up. here's hoping google maps/earth follows suite soon -- they have a significantly larger corpus of sensor data to work with. time to splat the world!

@bilawalsidhu