Niantic .SPZ Gaussian Splatting file import and Spherical Harmonics support has been added to Babylon.
You can test it with the snapshot and it will be available later today with the Playground
Test PG:
SH from .PLY are not supported yet. The file size is ridiculous in that configuration so it’s way better to use .SPZ.
PR is here : SPZ splat file loader by CedricGuillemet · Pull Request #15849 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub
Very cool! Thanks!! 
Hi.
We were looking forward to that!
Amazing.
We have created a converter for spz format and wanted to check if everything is correct.
Atm we see some vey obvious quality loss in our tests, but we are not sure if that is the compression or we do something wrong.
Do you have the original .ply dataset of the gekko scene above to compare (at least visually) the .ply (or .splat) and the .spz scene.
When zooming close to the surface of the sculpture we can see kind of the same issues appear here.
But we want to investigate deeper.
Thanks and best.
Werner
Hi @yamaciller
I’ve fixed not later than yesterday an issue with splat orientation and 1 with better color conversion
I could not see any difference between ply and spz.
Also, for spz, take care of the coordinate system : Babylon.js docs
Amazing!
Yes I think, that did the deed.
We are comparing, but it looks promising.
Btw. The .ply view in Babylon for GS doesnt carry through the SHs or?
Best.
Werner
No, for legacy reason. When .ply started to be used, filesize was an issue and SH support was dropped.
Then came .spz and SH was less an issue but its parsing was added for .ply.
Is spherical harmonic support only available with webGPU? @Cedric
This works in webgl on my android phone, but on my MacBook only webGl has no spherical harmonics
There was an issue with Mac + Chrome + SH that’s been fixed with bind eye position GS by CedricGuillemet · Pull Request #16466 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub
Thank you! I see some other fixes too related to SH, excited to try it out. Is there also now support for compressed ply?
Is there a build out for this yet?
Compressed PLY has been supported for some time now so it’s been available for many npm releases.
Okay I will test today. I could have sworn it was broken for me and looked like a bunch of random splats in random colors all over-- could be a bug or maybe my version was outdated, I will keep you posted.
Do you know if there was an npm release for the other spherical harmonics fixes mentioned above?
The changes seem to be in the preview CDN, so I hosted that version myself and reference it for StorySplat exports which work great but my editor runs off the npm package and that doesn’t seem to have the changes necessary for the SH to look right – I could just be missing something here on how to get the latest in my node moduels
Thank you!
Here is the same file loaded as a compressed spz in the latest playground – https://playground.babylonjs.com/#KUHXDT#13
Am I missing something?
Please note that @Cedric will be oof for a bit so bear with us in the meantime
Of course, thank you for the heads up and for all of your help/work as always!
@Cedric maybe you’ve already seen it, but could be worth looking into SOGS (self-organising gaussions) compression? PlayCanvas apparently just implemented it (based off of a recent paper) in their now-open-source GS viewer and are seeing big file size improvements: PlayCanvas Adopts SOGS for 20x 3DGS Compression | PlayCanvas Blog
Thanks as always for all your work on BabylonJS!
This looks great! I need to check that more in depth. Thanks for the info 
