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XGRIDS Joins Khronos Group, Brings Production-Scale 3DGS Experience to International Standardization Effort​

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XGRIDS, a spatial intelligence company and one of the first companies to deploy 3D Gaussian Splatting at production scale across multiple industries, today announced its membership in the Khronos® Group.

XGRIDS, a spatial intelligence company and one of the first companies to deploy 3D Gaussian Splatting at production scale across multiple industries, today announced its membership in the Khronos® Group. XGRIDS is contributing to KHR_gaussian_splatting, the first international specification for 3D Gaussian Splat storage and interoperability.

Production-Scale Deployments Inform Standardization

XGRIDS brings production-scale deployment experience to the standardization effort. The company has deployed 3D Gaussian Splatting across industries:

Infrastructure & Construction

Large-space capture of urban environments, industrial facilities, and infrastructure assets, providing high-fidelity spatial data for construction verification, progress monitoring, and as-built documentation

Digital Twins & Smart City

City-scale 3D reconstruction delivering centimeter-accurate spatial data foundations for asset management, planning, and spatial intelligence applications

City-scale digital twin of a historic street, with a reconstructed ornate facade, parked cars, and street lighting
City-scale digital twin of a historic street, with a reconstructed ornate facade, parked cars, and street lighting

Film & Virtual Production

High-quality digitization of real-world locations integrated into virtual production workflows, enabling scene reuse and reducing on-location reshoots

Actor performing in front of a reality-captured backdrop on a virtual production stage surrounded by lighting rigs
Actor performing in front of a reality-captured backdrop on a virtual production stage surrounded by lighting rigs

Robotics & Embodied AI

XGRIDS-captured environments integrated into NVIDIA Isaac Sim, providing realistic spatial data for robot navigation and manipulation training

Robot navigation training inside an XGRIDS-captured shopping street environment imported into NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Robot navigation training inside an XGRIDS-captured shopping street environment imported into NVIDIA Isaac Sim

These deployments have exposed the interoperability gaps that slow enterprise 3DGS adoption. XGRIDS joins the Khronos standardization effort to address them directly.

XGRIDS' Role

XGRIDS contributes alongside NVIDIA, Autodesk, Cesium/Bentley Systems, Esri, Huawei, and Niantic Spatial. The company brings:

  • Production-tested workflows across diverse capture conditions and scales
  • Direct experience with cross-platform delivery requirements
  • Insight into compression, streaming, and integration needs for enterprise deployment

XGRIDS Lixel CyberColor is cited in the official Khronos announcement as a shipping application using 3D Gaussian Splats in production today.

"3D Gaussian Splatting is ready to move beyond individual tools and workflows into shared infrastructure—a common language for spatial data across industries. XGRIDS joined Khronos because standardization is what turns a rendering technique into foundational capability."

— Kaiyong Zhao, Founder and CEO of XGRIDS

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About XGRIDS

XGRIDS is a spatial intelligence company developing 3D scanning hardware and software solutions that combine LiDAR, computer vision, and 3D Gaussian Splatting technology. The company's products—including the Lixel scanner series and PortalCam spatial camera—serve surveying, film/VFX, construction, robotics, and cultural heritage markets globally. For more information, visit xgrids.com.

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