[pierotofy]

A lot of 3DGS/Nerf research is like this unfortunately (ugh).

Check https://github.com/pierotofy/OpenSplat for something you can run on your 10 year old laptop, even without a GPU! (I'm the author)

[somethingsome]

I know, I don't get the fuzz either, I've coded real-time gaussian splat renderers >7 years ago with LOD and they were able to show any kind of point cloud.

They worked with a basic 970 GTX on a big 3d screen and also on oculus dk2.

[kookamamie]

It's the old story of a an outsider group (AI researchers, in this case) re-inventing the wheel discovered ages ago by experts of the domain.