Show HN: SplatGallery – A Community-Driven Gallery for Gaussian Splats

HN readers interested in more splats might be interested in polycam&#x27;s discovery page [1]. Same idea, but limited to splats generated with polycam (either in the app or with uploaded images). It&#x27;s also a less filtered look at the technology, more a collection of neat things than a strict highlight reel<p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;poly.cam&#x2F;explore?type=splat&amp;feed=trending" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;poly.cam&#x2F;explore?type=splat&amp;feed=trending</a>

I love the gaussian splatting that&#x27;s going on. I also love the people pushing gaussian splitting and generative AI. I really feel there is something there but I&#x27;m not quite sure what yet. It&#x27;s cool seeing this unfold, but I&#x27;m also worried it can turn into something like Photosynth, where it was a cool exercise but not much came out of it. I would love someone&#x27;s input who is involved in this tech that could blue sky where it could be applied in interesting ways.

1. Support for WebXR - first thing I want to do with a splat is view it in a headset)<p>2. Support for any emerging formats that improve on .ply (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nianticlabs&#x2F;spz">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nianticlabs&#x2F;spz</a> looks promising)<p>3. Better navigation controls (or at least document what you already support)

Thanks for making this OP! It&#x27;s a quick way to get people into it viewing it and great to see community fostering.<p>* I discovered I can translate with ctrl-mouse, but maybe add WASD keys as well?<p>* I discovered &quot;L&quot; brings up a camera rotation display. The sliders rotates on weird axes (wrong space?), so not too helpful of a UX. Clicking the help magnifier says &quot;Open Filter with CMD+SHIFT+L&quot; but on Safari that opens the sidebar.<p>* Simple help display for either of those too might help<p>EDIT: * Tried it on an iPhone 13 Pro... touch controls work great and it is so smooth an good looking. In landscape mode, the header takes up a lot of space. A full-screen button would be great.

Please don&#x27;t break standard browser behaviour.<p>The two category buttons at the top should be a tags not buttons. They should change the url history so the back button works and so I can alt-click to open in a new tab.

Great work!<p>Are there any particular niches or applications where community-sourced splats are especially well-suited? I see them mentioned on HN from time to time, but I&#x27;m curious about their primary use case at the moment.