It’s literally the name of gaussian splatting. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real Time Radiance Fields

https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/

Hmm if gaussian splatting is radiance field rendering then so is any 3D rendering, and what's the point of using the name? Though having looked up the name it seems like it isn't well defined enough to mean much anyway tbh.

We will be able to have imax level 3D technically today if you feed it the correct data

My bad! I am the author. Gaussian splatting allows you to take a series of normal 2D images or a video and reconstruct very lifelike 3D from it. It’s a type of radiance field, like NeRFs or voxel based methods like Plenoxels!

I also spoke to the vfx team from Superman on how they achieved the reconstructions! (I’m also the author for the Helicopter article here).

https://radiancefields.com/gaussian-splatting-in-superman