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Artec 3D Ships Artec Twins, the First Commercial Software to Generate and Render Gaussian Splats at Industrial Scale

Artec Twins integrates splat generation into a digital twin platform built for large-scale infrastructure digitization, putting millimeter-precision measurement and photoreal rendering in a single subscription.

Mainstay Communications Team · October 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Artec 3D Ships Artec Twins, the First Commercial Software to Generate and Render Gaussian Splats at Industrial Scale

In brief

Artec 3D launched Artec Twins on October 8, 2026, a platform that processes billion-point 3D environments at up to 200 frames per second and generates Gaussian splats from LiDAR or photo data without external software. The software closes a production tooling gap that has kept Gaussian splatting inside research pipelines and away from industrial workflows at scale. It's priced at $6,840 a year by subscription or $17,100 for a perpetual license, and it handles environments covering more than 100 square kilometers while maintaining full interactivity.

The Platform

Artec 3D, a Luxembourg-based scanning hardware and software company, released Artec Twins on October 8, 2026. The platform is built on the foundation of Artec Studio and designed for infrastructure-scale work: factory campuses, port facilities, mining sites, and heritage landmarks measured in square kilometers rather than square meters.

The launch is Artec 3D's first software release to include Gaussian splat generation and rendering as a native capability, with no external tools or hand-offs to a separate pipeline required.

Gaussian Splatting at Production Scale

Gaussian splatting has circulated in research and creative applications since 2023, but production tools for industrial digitization workflows have lagged. Artec Twins generates splats directly inside the application from either Artec Jet LiDAR scan data or standard photographs and video, and the resulting splats live in the same project file as point clouds and meshes.

That combination matters for inspections and digital twin presentations where a client wants both precision geometry for measurement and photoreal visualization for review. Users switch between 3 representations on demand rather than maintaining separate files across separate tools.

The splatting pipeline handles translucent and reflective surfaces that conventional photogrammetric reconstruction routinely fails on: glass facades, polished metalwork, fluid containment equipment. For manufacturing and industrial buyers, those surfaces are common rather than exceptional.

Scale and Performance

The performance specs are built around datasets that exceed what most desktop 3D tools tolerate. Artec Twins renders point clouds with billions of points at up to 200 frames per second without decimating the data. The platform maintains full navigability across environments of 100 or more square kilometers, a specification aimed at infrastructure operators running facility surveys at the district or campus level.

The software runs data processing locally, which matters for industrial customers with data security or sovereignty requirements who can't route project files through cloud pipelines.

Supported input sources include the Artec Jet SLAM-based LiDAR scanner, the Artec Ray II static scanner, the Artec Leo wireless handheld, and third-party captures from drones, satellites, and smartphones. Exports go to E57, LAS/LAZ, mesh, and Gaussian Splatting formats for handoff to downstream platforms.

Hardware requirements start at an NVIDIA GPU with Turing architecture or newer and at least 6 GB of VRAM, paired with an Intel Core i7 of 8 or more cores. Artec 3D recommends a GPU with 24 GB of VRAM and an Intel Core i9 for full-scale production use. The software runs on Windows 11.

Pricing

Artec Twins is available at $6,840 a year by subscription, which includes major feature updates, or $17,100 for a perpetual license. Both tiers include splat creation from photos and point clouds. The platform is sold directly through the Artec 3D website and the company's global reseller network.

Art Yukhin, President and CEO of Artec 3D, framed the release around the fragmentation problem the platform is designed to solve. "Most existing solutions ask users to compromise. Either they support handheld 3D scanning, SLAM-LiDAR, or aerial capture, but not all of the above," Yukhin said. "Artec Twins offers a complete solution for handling incredibly large datasets, without any trade-offs in speed, accuracy or scale."

The Production Gap

Gaussian splatting as a rendering technique produces results that photogrammetry and mesh-based workflows can't match on translucent and reflective geometry. The technique has run primarily on research-grade tools that don't integrate with the measurement instruments, project management systems, and export formats that AEC, mining, and infrastructure operators use day to day.

Artec Twins connects those two worlds by making splat generation a step inside a platform that already handles sub-millimeter precision point clouds, analysis tools (distance mapping, cross-sections, volume calculations, primitive fitting), and georeferencing. A single project file can now carry both the accuracy a surveyor needs and the visual fidelity a sales or training team wants.

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