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NVIDIA Spotlights SplatGarden, a Browser-Based 3DGS Environment Built by SCAD Students

June 24, 2026 at 14:02 EDT

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Education

A student team at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has built "SplatGarden," an interactive garden environment that runs in a web browser by combining AI-driven generation with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). NVIDIA Omniverse published a YouTube video detailing the pipeline in June 2026 and officially highlighted the work.

June 24, 2026 · OpenUSD Insider Livestreams

SplatGarden: An Interactive 3D Garden That Runs In Your Browser

A student team at SCAD fused NVIDIA Omniverse with 3D Gaussian Splatting to deliver a dense, real-time garden — captured, simulated, and streamed to the web through a single OpenUSD pipeline.

3DGS

Gaussian Splats rendered in real time via WebGL

v0.2.0

ovrtx library adds native Gaussian Splat support (Mar 2026)

2023→now

A years-long "3DGS in Omniverse" discussion reaches a practical stage

The pipeline: real-world capture → simulation → web delivery

Author

Houdini · Unreal Engine · OpenUSD build a dense garden scene

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Train

Scene trained as a 3D Gaussian Splat on Blackwell GPUs

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Deliver

Rendered live in the browser via WebGL

Why Omniverse stands out

Splats are now handled natively via Particle Fields — full path-tracing, defocus & motion blur, plus shadows, reflections and refraction with other objects.

OpenUSD interoperability across tools

RTX path-tracing quality

Physics simulation integration

Praise

High-quality interactive build delivered fast
Streamlined capture-to-web flow
Promising for digital twins and education

Open Challenges

File size & performance streaming room-scale scenes over WebRTC
Dynamic 4D Gaussian Splat integration still developing
Continued reliance on unofficial extensions

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