{"id":24057,"date":"2026-06-03T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:10:17","slug":"the-craziest-mapping-breakthrough-since-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/the-craziest-mapping-breakthrough-since-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Craziest Mapping Breakthrough Since Google Maps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bilawalsidhu\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual my buddy Bilawal provides a detailed yet accessible overview of new 3D developments, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khronos.org\/news\/press\/gltf-gaussian-splatting-press-release\">glTF adding support for Gaussian splatting<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Craziest Mapping Breakthrough Since Google Maps\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-S-x0b9TrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual my buddy Bilawal provides a detailed yet accessible overview of new 3D developments, including glTF adding support for Gaussian splatting:<\/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\/24057"}],"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=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24061,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions\/24061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}