Corridor Digital created a short film and accompanying making-of video showing the use of gaussian splats vs. photogrammetry to reconstruct an environment: <a href="https://youtu.be/GaGcLhhhbDs?si=rJVxF8yNwwbfLBw9&t=306" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/GaGcLhhhbDs?si=rJVxF8yNwwbfLBw9&t=306</a>
The ability to re-light scenes is a step in the right direction, but their examples use the classic easy scenario of an overcast sky with no strong lighting directionality, which can be faked fairly convincingly using ambient occlusion rather than fully simulating (or inferring) the light paths.
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This guys posts researches only about these things. I was also going to submit wild guassian.