We’re excited to announce 3D Gaussian Splatting in Scaniverse, available today on the App Store.

Scaniverse started with the ambition to bring 3D content creation to everyone, inspiring users to capture and share the world. To make this experience even more immersive and exciting, we’re excited to announce support for 3D Gaussian Splatting in Scaniverse 3.0 to help you recreate high quality real world scenes directly on your mobile device, all within a few minutes.

Capture the world with more life-likeness than ever

This new scanning mode allows you to create photorealistic 3D scenes with just your smartphone. Suitable for everything from small objects to large buildings, splats deliver an unprecedented level of detail with accurate lighting and reflections. In addition, splatting reconstructs geometry far out into the distance, allowing your scans to become truly immersive experiences.

Unlike meshes, splats are powerful enough to represent transparency, reflections, and view-dependent lighting. Shiny objects, specular reflections, and subsurface scattering that would be impossible to model in a textured mesh can be easily handled by splats.

Since splat parameters are learned (i.e. trained with gradient descent just like a neural network), they can adapt to many different types of scenes, regardless of scale, materials, or level of detail. The end result is a model so realistic that you might mistake renderings for a video.

Gaussian splatting in the Scaniverse app

To get started with Gaussian Splatting, simply open the Scaniverse app and press New Scan > Splat. After a scan is complete, click “Process” for Scaniverse to start training your splat. It’s fast — initial results are ready in about a minute. For even higher detail and quality, we’ve added an “Enhance” button, which you can press to train for a minute longer. You can keep pressing the enhance button until you’re satisfied with the results.

We’ve also added the option to create a fun short-form video of the splat, so you can easily share the results for everyone to view. You can choose to save this to your device, or export in PLY format.

In line with our principle of giving users control of their data, 100% of splat capture and training happens locally on your device. Your data is never sent to the cloud unless you explicitly choose to do so by sharing your splat. This offers a level of privacy and data security that would not be possible in a cloud-based solution.

To learn more, visit our FAQs here

Get started with Scaniverse splats today!

With Scaniverse, you now can create free, unlimited and high quality splats using privacy-preserving on-device processing. We’re so happy to share our on-device 3D Gaussian Splatting with you, and can’t wait to see what you’ll create.

Get Scaniverse on the App Store today, and tag @scaniverse on Instagram or X if you share your splats. Happy splatting!