{"id":23881,"date":"2026-04-26T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23881"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:06:43","slug":"recent-3d-hotness-from-apple-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/recent-3d-hotness-from-apple-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent 3D hotness from Apple &#038; Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple&#8217;s LiTo can generate Gaussian spalts with realistic view-dependent rendering:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the biggest announcement from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Apple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Apple<\/a> that nobody has talked about.<\/p>\n<p>Generating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GaussianSplatting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GaussianSplatting<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AI<\/a> using models like Trellis or Sam3D hasn\u2019t made much sense&#8230;until now.<\/p>\n<p>Meshes are still far easier to edit, integrate cleanly into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3D?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3D<\/a> workflows, and with recent\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tTe2f1gk36\">pic.twitter.com\/tTe2f1gk36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabriele Romagnoli (@GabRoXR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabRoXR\/status\/2048054434488258796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Microsoft&#8217;s open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/TRELLIS.2\/\">Trellis<\/a> tech promises super fast 2D-to-3D conversion:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MICROSOFT DROPPED A 4B PARAMETER MODEL THAT TURNS ONE IMAGE INTO A 3D ASSET IN 3 SECONDS<\/p>\n<p>and it&#8217;s open source<\/p>\n<p>TRELLIS.2 fully textured, physically accurate 3D models with PBR textures out of the box<\/p>\n<p>not a rough mesh..not a placeholder<\/p>\n<p>roughness, metallic, opacity the kind of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TWxdmB63VB\">pic.twitter.com\/TWxdmB63VB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vaishnavi (@_vmlops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_vmlops\/status\/2048362543866060878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s LiTo can generate Gaussian spalts with realistic view-dependent rendering: This is the biggest announcement from @Apple that nobody has talked about. Generating #GaussianSplatting with #AI using models like Trellis or Sam3D hasn\u2019t made much sense&#8230;until now. Meshes are still far easier to edit, integrate cleanly into #3D workflows, and with recent\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tTe2f1gk36 \u2014 Gabriele [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23883,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions\/23883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}