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Research · Thread 07
VSLS
A vendor-neutral spec for verifying and integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting scans.
3D Gaussian splatting is spreading fast, but every capture platform and viewer is a silo: there is no shared notion of what makes a scan trustworthy, or of how to embed one anywhere else. VSLS, the Vantage Scan Listing Standard, is a vendor-neutral proposal in two halves: a verification pass over how a scan was made and whether it behaves, and a machine-readable contract for dropping it into somebody else's product. Barnes Vantage is the reference implementation and first adopter, but the standard is built to travel beyond real estate.
Finding
A trust standard for scans
The proposal is a vendor-neutral spec: a verification step plus a machine-readable integration contract, so a scan certified once drops into any listing, CMS or spatial platform without being re-checked by each one.
Trust has to travel with the scan, not with the platform that made it.
Paper to shipped
Implementation
Versioned JSON Schemas with validated examplesCertificate and integration-manifest schemas, plus validated examples, live inside Barnes Vantage at its own /vsls route.
Shipped
Barnes Vantage, first adopterEvery scan runs the VSLS gate in the onboarding pipeline, carries a Verified by Vantage badge, and a recurring fleet audit re-checks the whole library.
In progress
Public per-scan verify URL + a second non-Vantage adopterThe remaining proof points: a public verification endpoint per scan, and a second adopter outside Vantage to prove the standard travels across capture sources and host platforms.