Looking at all the outdoor scenes that you can walk around, I wonder how long until we start seeing this in places like Google Maps/Earth, as a replacement for the low-res 3D renderings we have now.
I guess the number of samples required to generate a GS is the constraint now, but maybe that will get solved.
Google already has some splats on google maps,
https://youtu.be/gXug7Kb3p4I
rendering them is also non trivial from what i understand, since the millions of indivudal point positions need to be recalculated all the time while moving
Turns out, GPUs are amazing at this.