Great question! The technology that 3DBug uses for displaying immersive 3-D worlds is called “3-D Gaussian Splat” or 3dgs. The file formats we currently support are “.ply” files and their compressed version, “.spz”. We highly recommend SPZ format because of its much smaller file size.
The good news is that the internet is exploding with solutions for capturing, creating, and editing 3dgs files.
- Want to scan your own area? Try apps like Scaniverse, Kiri or PIX4DCatch which install on your phone.
- For higher-quality scans, there are AI tools which can convert video or series of photos. There are also
specialized cameras
available which can capture quickly in high-quality.
- Want to convert a PLY file to SPZ? We recommend the
Spark.js Viewer.
We hope to integrate that capability into 3DBug at some time in the future.
- Different 3D software can output your 3-D scenes to PLY files, for example, Blender can do it using the
Kiri 3DGS render plugin
.
