{"id":16479,"date":"2026-06-20T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:28:23","slug":"gaussian-splats-in-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16479","title":{"rendered":"Gaussian splats in your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have written about <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9627\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9627\">Gaussian Splatting graphics before<\/a>. It has the ability to produce unbelievably photorealistic environments (with some limitations like animations being a very rough spot for it) &#8211; but are now entering the realm of realtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer Iakov Sumygin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/software\/programming\/developer-creates-a-basic-first-person-shooter-game-using-gaussian-splats-and-you-can-play-it-for-free-in-your-browser\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/software\/programming\/developer-creates-a-basic-first-person-shooter-game-using-gaussian-splats-and-you-can-play-it-for-free-in-your-browser\">has created a minimalistic playable video game<\/a> using Gaussian splats for the environment data, and you can load it up and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/playcanv.as\/p\/qxGSuzYq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">try it right now in your browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It definitely shows of the quality &#8211; and the limitations &#8211; of the technology. It&#8217;s an interesting experiment showing how far we&#8217;ve come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-attachment-id=\"16480\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=16480\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?fit=750%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?resize=480%2C270&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/06\/image.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about Gaussian Splatting graphics before. It has the ability to produce unbelievably photorealistic environments (with some limitations like animations being a very rough spot for it) &#8211; but are now entering the realm of realtime. Developer Iakov Sumygin has created a minimalistic playable video game using Gaussian splats for the environment data, and you can load it up and\u00a0try it right now in your browser. It definitely shows of the quality &#8211; and the limitations &#8211; of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16479\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4hN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16481,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}