ViS-3DGS Viewer

A robust VSCode extension providing native viewing capabilities for 3D Gaussian Splat files (.ply, .splat, .gsplat).

Overview

ViS-3DGS integrates a high-performance web-based 3D scene renderer seamlessly into the Visual Studio Code editor. By leveraging the Custom Editor API, it enables developers to visualize point-cloud structured splat files with zero external dependencies instantly upon clicking them in the file explorer.

Features

• Native support for large .ply and .splat formats.
• High-performance chunk-stream fallbacks.
• Memory-safe extraction to avoid standard V8 limits.
• Orbit controls and GPU-acceleration out of the box.

References & Attributions

This extension heavily leverages the architecture and implementations from the following open-source projects:

• SuperSplat: The underlying powerful 3D viewer rendering technology. SuperSplat via PlayCanvas
• GaussianViewer: The integration bridge logic that ties SuperSplat smoothly into VSCode's WebView architecture. GaussianViewer

BibTeX

@misc{ViS3DGSViewer,
  author = {Batuhan Ozcomlekci},
  title = {ViS-3DGS Viewer: A VSCode Extension for 3D Gaussian Splats},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/bozcomlekci/ViS-3DGS}}
}

If you use this viewer in academic research, please consider citing the original works that make it possible:

@misc{GaussianViewer2024,
  author = {reagan99},
  title = {GaussianViewer: A VSCode Extension for 3D Gaussian Splats},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/reagan99/GaussianViewer}}
}

@misc{SuperSplat2024,
  author = {PlayCanvas},
  title = {SuperSplat: 3D Gaussian Splatting editor and viewer},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat}}
}

@article{kerbl3Dgaussians,
  author       = {Kerbl, Bernhard and Kopanas, Georgios and Leimk{\"u}hler, Thomas and Drettakis, George},
  title        = {3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering},
  journal      = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  number       = {4},
  volume       = {42},
  month        = {July},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/}
}