Gaussian Splats: Ready for Standardization?

Gaussian Splats: Ready for Standardization?

Join us for an industry town hall bringing together tooling and engine vendors, as well as users of this transformative technology, for a 3-hour, in-depth discussion on how interoperability could drive adoption and prevent fragmentation.

The field has seen remarkable advancements in Gaussian splats for digital reconstruction and visualization of the physical world. Today, software solutions from various companies support the capture, visualization, editing, and compression of Gaussian splats, but they use a range of formats.

Is the ecosystem beginning to fragment? Could a subset of Gaussian splat representations emerge as a candidate for an open standard now or in the future? This town hall will examine the current state of Gaussian splats and their trajectory.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to the conversation and help guide the industry forward—at the right pace, neither too fast nor too slow.

Agenda

• Welcome (8:00 – 8:05)
  
  • Co-Host: Patrick Cozzi, Chief Platform Officer, Bentley Systems
  • Co-Host: Alexey Medvedev, AR Tech Lead at Meta and Chair of Khronos’ 3D Formats Working Group
• Foundations (8:05 – 8:30)
  
  • (8:05) Michael Rubloff, Founder and Managing Editor, Radiance Fields
  • (8:15) Aras Pranckevičius, Programmer
  • (8:22) A.J. Chavar, Creative Strategist & Nick Bartzokas, Senior Software Engineer – R&D The New York Times
  • (8:29) Q&A
• Momentum (8:39 – 9:00)
  
  • (8:39) Nicholas Butko, Senior Director, Engineering, Niantic, Inc.
  • (8:46) Nemanja Bartolovic, Software Engineer & Ashish Singh, Product Management, Cloud-AI, RL-Meta
  • (8:53) Nicolas Moenne-Loccoz, Principal Research Engineer, ADLR, NVIDIA
  • (9:00) Q&A
• Web (9:15 – 9:43)
  
  • (9:15) Will Eastcott, CEO & Co-founder, PlayCanvas
  • (9:22) Cedric Guillemet, Senior Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
  • (9:29) Thomas Richter-Trummer, Co-Founder & CTO, Arrival.Space
  • (9:36) Yoshiharu Sato, Founder & CTO, Waldek Technologies
  • (9:43) Q&A
• Geospatial & Digital Twins (9:58 – 10:50)
  • (9:58) Renaud Keriven, Distinguished Engineer, Bentley Systems
  • (10:05) Jason Sobotka, Software Engineer, Cesium
  • (10:12) Ladislav Horký, CTO at Melown Technologies, Hexagon
  • (10:19) Q&A
  • (10:29) Konrad Wenzel, Director, Stuttgart R&D Center and Jean-Philippe Pons, Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer, Esri
  • (10:36) Takayuki Murayama, Senior Director & Talha Khalid, Global Development Manager, EARTHBRAIN
  • (10:43) Emeric Beaufays, Geospatial and 3D Specialist, Founder & Software Engineer, JDULTRA
  • (10:50) Q&A
• Next Steps (11:00 – 11:30)