Will Eastcott is an entrepreneur and veteran technologist of the games industry with experience at EA, Sony, and Activision. He has been credited in many AAA game franchises such as GTA, Call of Duty and Max Payne. He is best known for co-founding PlayCanvas, the web graphics creation platform. As CEO, he has championed the company's mission to make graphical web app development more accessible and collaborative through open-source technologies and cloud-based tools.
View all authorsWelcome to the fifth edition of Developer Spotlight, a series of blog articles where we talk to developers about how they use PlayCanvas and showcase the fantastic work they are doing on the web.
Today, we are excited to be joined by In Ha and Willie from Reflct.
We're thrilled to announce the release of SplatTransform — a powerful CLI tool that makes working with 3D Gaussian Splats a breeze!
SplatTransform is open-sourced under an MIT license on GitHub
When 3D Gaussian Splats began to revolutionize real-time rendering and photorealistic 3D content creation, we built SuperSplat, a visual editor for splats. But developers have continued to ask for better tools to manage, convert, and optimize their splat datasets. Our solution is to bring some of SuperSplat's most powerful features to the command line, courtesy of a new tool called SplatTransform. It's fast, flexible, and designed specifically for developers who need precise control over their Gaussian splat workflows.
Today, we are releasing PlayCanvas Engine 2.7.5 that introduces a new and advanced compression format for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) called Self-Organizing Gaussians (SOGS). SOGS can reduce 3DGS data by over 20x.
To showcase PlayCanvas' support for SOGS, we have collaborated with Christoph Schindelar to build a technical demo:
The church scene above was originally a 1GB PLY file containing 4 million Gaussians - not at all suitable for the web or mobile! Using SOGS, we can serve up the scene in just 55MB! Read on to find out how.
Today, we are announcing the open sourcing of the SuperSplat Viewer. Try it out for yourself:
Today, we are announcing the release of SuperSplat 2.2. 🚀
SuperSplat is your open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats. This update introduces video rendering for your splats, alongside numerous other improvements. Let's dive in!
Today, we are announcing a major update of SuperSplat, the open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.
Today marks a major milestone for the PlayCanvas Engine, the open-source JavaScript runtime that powers thousands of interactive graphical apps and tools on the web. We are bubbling with excitement to announce the release of version 2.0.0!
CLICK HERE to open in a new tab. Credits: Splats scanned at the V&A Museum. HDRI from Poly Haven.
We have big news for the 3D Gaussian Splat community - the PlayCanvas Editor now has fully integrated support for splats! Learn how to quickly build stunning, interactive 3DGS applications today.
Today, we are announcing the latest release of SuperSplat, the open source tool for editing and optimizing 3D Gaussian Splats. If you don't have a PLY file to hand, here's an example!
It's here! 🥳 Today, we're excited to announce that WebGPU support has officially arrived in the PlayCanvas Editor.
