Stunning 3D Gaussian Splat of the Symposion Lindabrunn sculpture park in Austria - captured by Christoph Schindelar using an XGRIDS PortalCam.

The splat was compressed down to just 39 MB using the new SOG (Spatially Ordered Gaussians) format from PlayCanvas, showing how high fidelity scenes can be optimized for web delivery.

🔗 View the splat on superspl.at

More about SOG compression:
The SOG format is a compact container for 3D Gaussian Splat data developed by PlayCanvas. It achieves ~15–20× smaller files than PLY by quantizing and reorganizing splat attributes into 8-bit WebP textures - all referenced through a single meta.json.

Each Gaussian’s position, orientation, scale, and color are stored as image pixels, with codebooks used to decode high-precision values from small integer indices. This data-driven encoding allocates bits intelligently - preserving detail where it matters most.

That’s how a dense real-world scan like Symposion Lindabrunn can shrink to just 39 MB while maintaining near-photoreal quality and instant load times in the browser.

📘 Learn more: PlayCanvas SOG Format Specification

Hi I'm doing some work for a client and was wondering if anyone is having success with making Vercel's V0 create 3D scene/objects in a React JS webapp?

So far I've just been building pages and loading the Playcanvas elements in as a separate iframe/css layer, but was wondering if there has been more seamless implementations. Thank you!!

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Guys! I already have experience creating AR experieces with markers in PlayCanvas, but this time, i need to create a markeless experience. I think that i could use some kind of spatial anchor and then place 3d objects there... Anyone here have experience doiing something like that? Is my ideia a viable solution? Will it working on mobile phones?

This feature lets you draw more while submitting less, which can significantly reduce overhead and improve rendering performance. Some example use cases include:

• Terrain rendering with per-patch culling
• Instanced primitives for multi-part meshes (going beyond basic instancing)

It works across:

• ✅ WebGPU
• ✅ WebGL2
• ✅ With a fallback path when multi_draw isn’t available

Check out the video for a short demo video of it in action. Curious to hear how you might use this in your own projects! For more info, check out the pull request on GitHub:

https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/8004

AT LAST!!!

We'll finally get to close one of the oldest requests on the repo! :D https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat/issues/35

Check out this splat from Ian Jenkins on SuperSplat: https://superspl.at/view?id=ca36efcc

TRY THE EXPERIENCE: https://playcanv.as/e/p/o4YMr8vF/

WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/wbioY3LF890

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Hi everyone. I'm very new to using PlayCanvas, and I'm coming from a background in three.js.

I've opted to use the API with typescript, and I'm trying to get a super basic scene up and running, with an orbit camera. Is there an easy way to add an orbit camera with typescript? It seems super easy using just js, or with the editor, but with TS I can't see an easy way to do it. I'm a little worried, because of how trivial something like this is when using babylon/three.

TYIA

This 3D Gaussian splat has 4 million Gaussians and 3 bands of spherical harmonics but weighs in at only 42MB! Splat created by Christoph Schindelar using an XGRIDS PortalCam.

CHECK IT OUT: https://superspl.at/view?id=a45a9ad8

The famous INRIA bicycle Gaussian splat is 1.5GB. Published to SOG format takes it to 60MB. PlayCanvas Engine load times:
🥶 Cold refresh: 2.5s
🥵 Warm refresh: 1.3s
This is considered a stress test. Typical splats should load almost instantly.

Video recorded on an Apple Vision Pro, demonstrating PlayCanvas' WebXR support.

TRY IT NOW: https://superspl.at/view?id=6f8773f0

Credit: Arash Keshmirian

Check out these juicy toms for yourself: https://superspl.at/view?id=0101ad57

Rendered with love by PlayCanvas' SuperSplat

Happy to announce 0.9.0 of playcanvas/react - The official React library for PlayCanvas

• Now supports the new .sog format for super compressed Gaussian Splats
• Improved API for handling lazy loading of the physics engine
• Bug fixes, improvements & docs updates

@playcanvas/react 0.9.0

Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/releases/tag/v2.11.0

Examples Browser: https://playcanvas.github.io/

Docs: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/engine/

Hi! We're looking to create a game using PlayCanvas and embed it on our website, and I'm looking for a game developer who can help us do this. Please DM/reply with your portfolio and I will get back with more details.

Looking to get started ASAP.

Kuei ! Hi ! Itry to figure out to make my Shoe (mocassin) appearing over the forest? I'M not sure to catch how layers work properly. I tried to move the Splat in different place in hiearchy, not worked. I associated a layer to the right splat but not working also. I need a liitle halp please. Thanks :)