Industry Groups Integrate Gaussian Splats Into glTF
On August 7, 2025, Khronos Group, OGC, Niantic Spatial, Cesium (Bentley) and Esri announced work to integrate 3D Gaussian Splats into the glTF format by developing two extensions to standardize storage and SPZ compression for photorealistic radiance-field point primitives. The initiative adopts Niantic’s open-source SPZ (claiming up to 90% compression versus PLY), updates SPZ v2.0.0 with improved quaternion rotation encoding, and aims to improve geospatial interoperability and streaming across platforms.
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Official cross-industry standardization delivers broad practical impact; constrained by being a standards integration rather than novel research.
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Sources
- Read OriginalKhronos, OGC, and Geospatial Leaders Add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset Standardkhronos.org
