New resources for the immersive web, week of December 11th 2023

WebXR on iOS

Motivated by coming across the embedded post on Mastodon, we looked into existing solutions for iOS.

We found this one, which is very sleek, but a bit on the expensive side: https://launch.variant3d.com/

Gaussian Splatting Explosion

Meta: a collection of Gaussian Splatting stuff https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/12/08/Gaussian-explosion/

SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields

SMERF

Relightable avatars

https://80.lv/articles/new-relightable-animatable-realistic-avatars-from-meta/

Gaussian Splat based SLAM

https://neuralradiancefields.io/splatam-slam-with-speed-precision-and-gaussian-splats/

Visual Editor for React Three Fiber

Triplex is not actually a new project, but it is still in early access.

ThreedTiles: a 3DTiles viewer for three.js

Source code. Some really impressive demos, particularly the map and Berlin.