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A Yurok Village in WebGL, Built From LIDAR Scans

CyArk's Tapestry tour of Sumêg Village drops you into a Yurok ancestral village above the Pacific, rendered from survey-grade LIDAR captured in 2021. Cedar plank houses, sweat house, dance house. Guided narration first, then WASD and free run of the place.

Apr 30, 2026

Gaussian Splats on a Revit Model in 600 Lines of JavaScript

Michael Beale's gaussian-splats-lmv overlays photoreal XGRIDS captures onto a Revit model inside the APS Viewer. Same camera, same section planes. Three modules, roughly 600 lines of JS, a 65,536-bucket counting sort in a Web Worker, and 32-byte splat records doing the heavy lifting.

Apr 29, 2026

Mapillary: A Street View Stitched Together by Strangers

Hundreds of millions of crowdsourced street photos, blended into a navigable 3D world you can pan through like a panorama. Built on mapillary-js, an open source TypeScript and WebGL library by Oscar Lorentzon. Point clouds, undistorted camera frames, and an S2-cell navigation graph under the hood.

Apr 8, 2026

Climbuddy: From Phone Photos to Interactive 3D Climbing Walls in the Browser

Snap photos of a bouldering wall, get back a textured 3D model with routes and holds auto-detected. Climbuddy chains COLMAP, SAM, and YOLO into a WebGL viewer that actually makes sense to use.

Mar 1, 2026

UNESCO's Virtual Museum of Stolen Artifacts, Rebuilt in 3D with NanoGL

A WebGL museum you weren't expecting to need. makemepulse rebuilt 240+ looted artifacts in 3D using their in-house NanoGL framework and a generative AI pipeline that turns flat photos into textured models. Architect Francis Kéré designed the space. The subject matter does the rest.

Feb 16, 2026

Pyramids of Meroë: 3D Archaeology in the Browser with Three.js and WebXR

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. This scrolling experience from Google Arts & Culture lets you explore them in 3D, drop one into your room via WebXR, and learn why the Kushite Kingdom remains half a mystery.

Feb 1, 2026

Gauzilla Pro: Web-Native Gaussian Splatting for 4D Digital Twins

A browser-based platform turning drone footage and smartphone video into photorealistic 3D scenes with AI-powered segmentation. Built on an open-source Rust/WASM renderer, no installs required. Construction teams are already using it for as-built documentation.

Jan 25, 2026

Exploring Sutro Tower in 3D

Fly through a photorealistic 3D scan of SF's iconic Sutro Tower. Drone photography, gsplat training, and SOGS compression were used to create this ~30MB Gaussian Splat rendered in PlayCanvas. A beautiful example of web-based photogrammetry in action.

Dec 26, 2025