guassian splatting inside maya?

[matthias_gerding]

need a way to work with .ply and gaussian splat data inside maya. Any ways? We need to stay with Arnold, so vray isnt an option...?

[Christoph_Schaedl]

There are some experiments done with Bifrost. But no real solution.
Maybe its interesting moving foreward.
https://discord.com/channels/872260298508222534/1181171324480147476/1181171324480147476

[damaggio]

https://blog.chaos.com/3d-gaussian-splatting-new-frontier-in-rendering

[matthias_gerding]

the bifrost solution is good, but also very, very slow. vray isnt an option for us, so we are looking for a good script or any plans that autodesk will implement it in maya?