A developer has successfully ported Apple's SHARP 3D Gaussian splatting model to run entirely in the browser using ONNX runtime with WebGPU. The implementation allows users to upload an image and generate downloadable 3D point clouds locally without server processing. While the model requires a 2.4GB download and has research-only licensing restrictions, it demonstrates significant progress in browser-based 3D reconstruction.
Background
Apple's SHARP is a recent research model for single-image 3D Gaussian splatting that converts 2D images into 3D point clouds. ONNX Runtime Web is a framework that enables running machine learning models directly in web browsers using WebGPU acceleration.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- May 3, 2026 at 05:14 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10