Easy stereoscopic 3D pictures and movies like Apple’s spatial video solely supply restricted parallax of a view of a scene introduced in a rectangle in entrance of you, and immersive 180° or 360° content material like Apple Immersive Video does the identical in a hemisphere or sphere.
However the holy grail of real-world immersive content material is really volumetric seize which you’ll be able to truly transfer your head and even stroll by means of – basically photorealistic VR, captured from the true world as an alternative of created by 3D artists in modeling software program. Gracia delivers that at this time for stills, and claims it can for brief movies too later this 12 months.
Gracia is feasible due to Gaussian splatting, a comparatively new approach for rendering 3D volumes by representing the scene as a set of overlapping 3D Gaussian functions. The corporate claims their particular Gaussian splatting rendering implementation is quicker than “every other know-how available on the market”, which is the way it can run on Quest 3 standalone with out a PC – albeit at a noticeably decrease decision.
