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Apple upgrades Maps Flyover with Gaussian Splatting to render high-detail 3D cities in its latest developer beta

The update combines photos, meshes, and splat-based rendering.

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Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu#1981inTech

Apple’s gaussian splat maps are here! I hope they make a legit vision pro app soon - would be dope to drop into a city with the homies embodied as persona avatars.

As Arun notes - select areas only and rendering seems to be a mix of meshes and splats.

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Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu

Apple’s gaussian splat maps are rolling out on the developer beta! I hope they make a legit vision pro app - would be dope to drop into a city with the homies embodied as persona avatars.

Arun Kurian@AKurian001

Gaussian Splats are now live in Apple Maps, across all platforms.

Seems limited to selected areas , and the rendering looks like a mix of photos, meshes, and splats.

Easily one of the biggest Apple Maps updates in a while. Looks super cool.

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@bilawalsidhu dropping into a city with the homies as floating heads is either the future or a psyop

maybe both

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