# 3D Gaussian Splatting in OpenUSD

**URL:** <https://forum.aousd.org/t/3d-gaussian-splatting-in-openusd/2232>\
**Category:** USD\
**Created:** [February 14, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/3d-gaussian-splatting-in-openusd/2232 "2025-02-14T02:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![nporcino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nporcino](https://forum.aousd.org/u/nporcino)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/3d-gaussian-splatting-in-openusd/2232/2 "2025-02-15T01:52:09Z")

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The Adobe file format extensions will import PLY files containing GS information. See this file for details.

> <https://github.com/adobe/USD-Fileformat-plugins/blob/c349263e3933cf9708d79a694628fc4eb2b101c2/ply/README.md?plain=1#L44>

Even though the data will be read, the plugin does not include rendering extensions for Hydra, so the next steps would depend on what you hope to do with the imported data.

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