🌕 Turn Images or Video to 3D with the new SketchUp Gaussian Splat extension🌕

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Thanks, Colin!
Following Adam’s message, I searched and found out that the 1050 Ti only has CC 6.1.

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I hope the SU team can keep up with this technology :smiling_face:

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Though it looks really cool, I don’t think the goal is creating animations with Gaussian splats, it’s more for creating spaces and objects using photogrammetry, it’s going to be a great tool for Architectural survey, it will save a lot of time. Probably other softwares like blender should develop things like the ones of the videos you shared.

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I think this technology has great potential for development. E.g. Combining Diffusion and GS?

  • You start by modeling a simple cube and generate a render with Diffusion.
  • Then in GS, you generate a 3D scene (here you could also import a video shot with your phone, which gets integrated into the scene).
  • And why not—imagine a new tray in SketchUp called something banal like “Video,” where you can build a short film based on all this data.

Update: Actually, I kind of overcomplicated things.
E.g.

  • Create 2 renders with Diffusion and save them as 2 different scenes.

  • With the help of GS, render the animation from one scene to the other and export the animation (just like we currently export the animation from one scene to another).

#justdreaming :smiling_face:

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IIRC, Bootcamp is Intel Macs only, not Apple silicon (M1 - M4)?

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I’m not a Mac user so I dont know the details but from what I’ve heard, for lastest Mac generation it’s going to be difficult to emulate windows. To be honest, we would love to have it available on iPad, Mac and web. Unfortunately it’s a lot of dev work for a starting extension. We’d like to understand first the use of GS with SU and then we’ll decide how we go on with it (what features, what platform …)

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Crossover.

I’m playing quite a lot of PC games through crossover on my mac (M4, M1 and even back then imac i5) (I’m using Porting Kit, a free app that will install tailor-made crossover / vine sessions for specific games. it’ll install a steam / gog environment with all the bits needed to run specific (or generic) games. sure, it won’t run some AAA recent games, but I can play age of empire 2 DE.

it could be a step between recoding everything and not having access to the tools (gaussian splats, the other one for point clouds which name escapes me right now…)

(edit : not saying it’s easy, and you should do that. I’m not a dev, what do I know ? but to me it’s like Vray, most mac users would rather have a vray that doesn’t use the GPU and takes longer to render than no vray at all. I’d rather have access to half the gaussian splat tools — even if I can’t produce one from photos or videos — than no access at all like the point clouds.)

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This extension is a big addition to SketchUp. Congratulations to the team! :clap:

For Mac users (like me): be patient. :slight_smile:
Yesterday at WWDC Apple introduced several new features to Metal 4, including some low level APIs. I’m pretty sure Paralles and other emulators will take advantages of this in the near future.
On the other side Windows on ARM is suffering the same early days missing features related to GPUs, if not worse compared to Mac; in the next few months NVIDIA will release its ARM+GPU chips.. it’s a rapid evolving scenario, just wait few months with your Intel Mac/PC alive.

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Hi, i am interested in this topic for so long. I work for a municipality as 3d modeler, renderer. Vray 7 can render 3dgs files, bu it would be nice to see 3dgs inside sketchup and place your own 3d model in it.. No need to convert 3dgs to 3d model for me..