Spatial Fields v1.2.0 Released: Massive Performance Gains, XGRIDS LCC Support, and New Ways to Explore

Spatial Fields v1.2.0

Posted: January 27, 2026

Massive Performance Gains, XGRIDS LCC Support, and New Ways to Explore

We’re excited to announce Spatial Fields v1.2.0, a major update that improves performance, scalability, and allows for new ways to explore and share large-scale Gaussian Splat captures across Apple platforms.

This release represents a big step forward in how complex captures are rendered, streamed, and navigated—especially on compute-constrained devices like iPhone and Apple Vision Pro.

Performance & Rendering Improvements

Frustum Culling (Optional in Settings): Spatial Fields can now draw only the splats that are actually visible in the camera view. This significantly reduces overdraw and improves frame stability, especially in dense scenes.
Full GPU Render Path: We’ve introduced a GPU-only render pipeline that handles culling, sorting, and rendering entirely on the GPU. This eliminates flashes of unsorted content that can occur with CPU sorting and is highly recommended on newer M-series hardware.
Shader-Driven Dynamic LOD: Our shaders now intelligently apply spherical harmonics and other compute-heavy calculations only where they matter most. Less important regions receive lighter shading, improving performance without sacrificing perceived quality.
On-Demand Rendering (macOS, iOS, tvOS): Spatial Fields now only re-draws when the camera view changes. This reduces energy usage and lowers device temperatures, making long exploration sessions more comfortable.

XGRIDS LCC Support & Streaming LOD

XGRIDS LCC Loading: You can now load XGRIDS LCC exports with all available LOD and quality levels intact.
Dynamic LOD Levels: Spatial Fields dynamically streams high-quality tiles where you’re looking, while loading lower-quality tiles elsewhere. This enables dramatically higher-quality captures to be explored on devices like iPhone and Apple Vision Pro—without converting to platform-specific formats.
This kind of dynamic LOD streaming is not currently possible on other platforms without custom conversion pipelines.
Capture Metadata Support: We now display metadata from LCC captures, including which XGRIDS device was used during capture to preserve all contextual information available.
Create Your Own LCC Exports: Use your own PLY files to generate LCC exports with dynamic LOD levels, bringing advanced streaming workflows and the power of the LCC format to your personal captures.

New Navigation & Exploration Modes

Vision Pro Fly Mode: In addition to teleportation, users can now fly continuously through scenes. While moving, the peripheral vision of each eye is subtly darkened to help reduce motion discomfort—making it easier to explore large environments comfortably.
iPhone & iPad Fly Mode: Large scenes are now easier to navigate on iOS with virtual gamepad-style fly controls.

Apple TV Group Viewing

Send PLY / SPZ to Apple TV: You can now send any PLY or SPZ capture you’re viewing on iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro directly to Apple TV for group viewing.
The capture is mirrored in real time—including live rotations and orientation changes. Previously, Apple TV support was limited to gallery content; now it works with all your own files. While the capture is mirrored, the Apple TV itself handles rendering, allowing an independent viewing experience on the TV of the same capture. To stop mirroring and independently navigate the capture on the Apple TV, use the Apple TV remote to move or rotate the capture.

Quality-of-Life Improvements

Save Orientation with Favorites & Widgets: When you favorite a capture, Spatial Fields now remembers its orientation and scale—so it comes back exactly how you left it.
Open PLY / SPZ Files Directly from Finder (macOS): Open PLY or SPZ files directly using macOS “Open With” for a faster workflow.

Get the Update

Spatial Fields v1.2.0 is available now on the App Store.

As always, we’re excited to hear what you think, try it out and let us know.