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Advancing Extended Reality with 3D Gaussian Splatting: Innovations and Prospects

arXiv 2412.06257 ↗First posted 9 Dec 2024cs.CV cs.GR cs.HCcited by 17

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Abstract (arXiv)

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted significant attention for its potential to revolutionize 3D representation, rendering, and interaction. Despite the rapid growth of 3DGS research, its direct application to Extended Reality (XR) remains underexplored. Although many studies recognize the potential of 3DGS for XR, few have explicitly focused on or demonstrated its effectiveness within XR environments. In this paper, we aim to synthesize innovations in 3DGS that show specific potential for advancing XR research and development. We conduct a comprehensive review of publicly available 3DGS papers, with a focus on those referencing XR-related concepts. Additionally, we perform an in-depth analysis of innovations explicitly relevant to XR and propose a taxonomy to highlight their significance. Building on these insights, we propose several prospective XR research areas where 3DGS can make promising contributions, yet remain rarely touched. By investigating the intersection of 3DGS and XR, this paper provides a roadmap to push the boundaries of XR using cutting-edge 3DGS techniques.

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  1. 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 6,226
  2. 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 1,964
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  8. 2023Scaffold-GS: Structured 3D Gaussians for View-Adaptive Renderingcited by 695
  9. 2023Mip-Splatting: Alias-free 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 667
  10. 2023Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splattingcited by 476
  11. 2023LightGaussian: Unbounded 3D Gaussian Compression with 15x Reduction and 200+ FPScited by 436
  12. 2023LangSplat: 3D Language Gaussian Splattingcited by 415
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  1. 2023SplaTAM: Splat, Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAMcited by 388
  2. 2023SC-GS: Sparse-Controlled Gaussian Splatting for Editable Dynamic Scenescited by 347
  3. 2023Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 344
  4. 2023GaussianEditor: Swift and Controllable 3D Editing with Gaussian Splattingcited by 335
  5. 2023LucidDreamer: Towards High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Interval Score Matchingcited by 290
  6. 2023GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 278
  7. 2023GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussianscited by 260
  8. 2023Compressed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Accelerated Novel View Synthesiscited by 239
  9. 2023GS-IR: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Renderingcited by 224
  10. 2024A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 224
  11. 2023Gaussian-Flow: 4D Reconstruction with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Particlecited by 211
  12. 2024VastGaussian: Vast 3D Gaussians for Large Scene Reconstructioncited by 209
  13. 20233DGS-Avatar: Animatable Avatars via Deformable 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 195
  14. 2024CityGaussian: Real-time High-quality Large-Scale Scene Rendering with Gaussianscited by 192
  15. 2023GaussianAvatar: Towards Realistic Human Avatar Modeling from a Single Video via Animatable 3D Gaussianscited by 191
  16. 20244D-Rotor Gaussian Splatting: Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenescited by 189
  17. 2024VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Realitycited by 179
  18. 2023GaussianEditor: Editing 3D Gaussians Delicately with Text Instructionscited by 168
  19. 20243DGStream: On-the-Fly Training of 3D Gaussians for Efficient Streaming of Photo-Realistic Free-Viewpoint Videoscited by 160
  20. 2024Recent Advances in 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 131
  21. 2023CompGS: Smaller and Faster Gaussian Splatting with Vector Quantizationcited by 130
  22. 2023Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatarscited by 127
  23. 2023DynMF: Neural Motion Factorization for Real-time Dynamic View Synthesis with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 124
  24. 2024StopThePop: Sorted Gaussian Splatting for View-Consistent Real-time Renderingcited by 111
  25. 2024GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guided Generative Gaussian Splattingcited by 109
  26. 20243D Geometry-aware Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 109
  27. 2024RealmDreamer: Text-Driven 3D Scene Generation with Inpainting and Depth Diffusioncited by 109
  28. 2023FlashAvatar: High-fidelity Head Avatar with Efficient Gaussian Embeddingcited by 108
  29. 2023Human Gaussian Splatting: Real-time Rendering of Animatable Avatarscited by 105
  30. 2023ASH: Animatable Gaussian Splats for Efficient and Photoreal Human Renderingcited by 104
  31. 20243D Gaussian as a New Era: A Surveycited by 104
  32. 2024Per-Gaussian Embedding-Based Deformation for Deformable 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 104
  33. 2024Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian Head Avatarcited by 97
  34. 2023MonoGaussianAvatar: Monocular Gaussian Point-based Head Avatarcited by 89
  35. 2024GSDF: 3DGS Meets SDF for Improved Rendering and Reconstructioncited by 83
  36. 2024DreamScene360: Unconstrained Text-to-3D Scene Generation with Panoramic Gaussian Splattingcited by 82
  37. 2024StyleGaussian: Instant 3D Style Transfer with Gaussian Splattingcited by 79
  38. 2024Spec-Gaussian: Anisotropic View-Dependent Appearance for 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 74

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  1. 2025CCL-LGS: Contrastive Codebook Learning for 3D Language Gaussian Splattingcited by 12
  2. 2026SparseSplat: Towards Applicable Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Pixel-Unaligned Predictioncited by 7
  3. 2025GaussTrap: Stealthy Poisoning Attacks on 3D Gaussian Splatting for Targeted Scene Confusioncited by 6
  4. 2025Creating Virtual Environments with 3D Gaussian Splatting: A Comparative Studycited by 3
  5. 2025Trade-offs in Image Generation: How Do Different Dimensions Interact?cited by 3
  6. 2025InnerGS: Internal Scenes Reconstruction and Segmentation via Factorized 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 3
  7. 2025ClipGS: Clippable Gaussian Splatting for Interactive Cinematic Visualization of Volumetric Medical Datacited by 2
  8. 2025GS-Verse: Mesh-based Gaussian Splatting for Physics-aware Interaction in Virtual Realitycited by 2
  9. 2025Edge Collaborative Gaussian Splatting with Integrated Rendering and Communicationcited by 2
  10. 2026Towards Next-Generation SLAM: A Survey on 3DGS-SLAM Focusing on Performance, Robustness, and Future Directionscited by 2
  11. 2024MS2Mesh-XR: Multi-modal Sketch-to-Mesh Generation in XR Environmentscited by 1
  12. 2025Interpretable Single-View 3D Gaussian Splatting using Unsupervised Hierarchical Disentangled Representation Learningcited by 1
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  1. 2025From Fields to Splats: A Cross-Domain Survey of Real-Time Neural Scene Representationscited by 1
  2. 2026QueryGaussian: Scalable and Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Retrievalcited by 1
  3. 2025Enhancing Novel View Synthesis from extremely sparse views with SfM-free 3D Gaussian Splatting Frameworkcited by 0
  4. 2026Indoor Asset Detection in Large Scale 360deg Drone-Captured Imagery via 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 0
  5. 2026From Splats to Silicon: Rethinking Computational Efficiency of 3DGScited by 0