I’ve been obsessed with the most exciting software tech today that’s not AI: Gaussian splats. It’s the next generation of videos where you can move around in the scene. And the whole thing renders in realtime on your iPhone. I went into a pretty deep rabbit hole on it.. so here’s some history. The initial idea was: can we take pictures from different angles and reconstruct a 3D scene? Fun fact: one of the seminal papers in the field (“Photo Tourism”) was written by a professor I taught…