Food & Drink Gaussian Splats
Food is brutally hard to fake in 3D — subsurface glow in fruit, glaze on pastry, condensation on glass — and effortless to capture as a splat. That makes food splats a sweet spot for restaurant menus in AR, food advertising and set dressing for hospitality visualisations.
Food captures have a short shooting window (food wilts under lights), so well-executed scans here are genuinely scarce assets. Each listing shows formats and splat counts; most food objects compress small enough for instant mobile loading.
Frequently asked questions
What are food splats used for commercially?
AR menus (view the dish on your table before ordering), food ads and web banners, and hospitality/real-estate staging where a kitchen needs life. They're also popular as photoreal props in game scenes.
Why not just use a 3D model of food?
Modelled food almost always reads as fake — the materials are too complex. A splat is built from photos of the real dish, so it keeps the photographic realism that makes food appetising.
Do food splats work in AR on phones?
Yes — small object splats in compressed formats run well in WebXR/AR viewers on modern phones. Check the splat count; under ~1M is comfortably mobile-ready.