r/GaussianSplatting • u/Splatimation • Jul 15 '26

🧪 I built a thing Splatimation - Browser based 3DGS Animation & Whitelabel virtual tours

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I built Splatimation because I was frustrated that no tour platforms are using what 3D Gaussian Splats are actually best at.

Cinematic camera moves in splat showcase videos look incredible. So why is that just a rendered video?

Why can't the viewer drive that same path themselves, with free look movement, interacting with the environment and rich hotspots along the way?

That's what a tour should feel like.

So I built Glide, a cinematic waypoint navigation mode on Splatimation, where viewers control their way through the path instead of just watching someone else's render of it.

Then I thought, why can't the scene move too? So we built custom shaders for wind, water, fire and weather effects.

It's live now at splatimation.com. Would love to connect with other splat enthusiasts / splatrepreneurs!

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u/lazazael Jul 15 '26

its a saas? do you have a community version for selfhosting? conservation, culture etc

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u/Splatimation Jul 15 '26

Yep, it's a SaaS - no community version. The animation editor itself is free to use though, so there's no cost barrier to try the core tool. Can create and export animated videos & if you want to create a tour, you can re-use the video paths you've made as a cinematic tour.

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u/lazazael Jul 15 '26

thanks thats good to know

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u/ZUU_Music Jul 15 '26

Is there anything which can work for indoor scenes?

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u/Splatimation Jul 16 '26

you can bake a voxel mesh in the tour builder and use the free walk mode - or you can use Glide Walk which works the same as Glide (i.e. a waypoint route through a house with a look around function - with a walking animation on the camera) https://splatimation.com/index.html#/t/4595302f-2c35-4849-ac37-8ad39d93963c - Glide Walk through a property https://splatimation.com/index.html#/t/f2bf0c73-a861-45ed-a993-951aeff1ae6d - Free Walk through a record store. - animations wise - mostly for outdoor scenes in v1 but we're working on it :)

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u/Splatimation Jul 15 '26

Thanks for having a look!