The #antigravitya1 from @insta360 is something truly unique, and I embarked on a mission to see if I could create #GaussianSplatting without too many headaches (spoiler: it does😉).
🥽🎮 It captures a 360 view that you can experience live in a pair of goggles (surprisingly compact, light and comfortable). Piloting the drone is also extremely easy and anybody can pick up the controller and start flying around. Not everything is perfect of course and I discovered 2 issues that require more testing (keep reading).
After capturing the video, I simply dropped it into Splatica, which accepts the native .insv file format. A few hours later, I had a massive scene with some very stunning details despite the harsh light conditions.
The splat, on the other hand, was too heavy to view in a headset like the Meta Quest so I cleaned it up in supersplat and used an online tool called 3DGSViewers to reduce the number of splats before reuploading and publishing it as .sog.
The result looks quite impressive but:
- The transmission of the #AntigravityA1 seems very shaky and I wonder how it would perform beyond a few hundred meters.
- Obstacle avoidance was very stringent, so I couldn't get close enough to capture more fine details.
- Splatica looks great, but how about other solutions like Scaniverse or MipMap? Can they also turn a .insv into a splat without major headaches?
I am working on a full review with an in-depth comparison I will publish on my newsletter (link on top of my profile). It will answer all the questions above and share the final reconstructed scene with more info on file size and the "ultimate winner" .