u/CouchCoopCoach

Gaussian Splatting meets psychotherapy - is my approach possible?

Hi!

I’m a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist working with VR exposure therapy for anxiety disorders since 2019. Until now I created custom 360° exposure videos for treatment purposes. I'm following this sub for quite a while now as I see a lot of potential in gaussian splatting for this matter but I have never tried a workflow myself.

My current Goal:

Create a VR exposure scene for emetophobia (fear of vomiting):

real 360° bathroom environment (just regular 360 capture or maybe a gaussian splat?)

AI-generated person vomiting into a toilet (no gore)

exported as a VR-compatible 360° video/ splat

viewed on Meta Quest 3 and/or HP Reverb G2

Current setup:

Hardware

Insta360 X4

MSI Raider A18 HX A9WIG-080 (Amd processor, nvidia 5080, 64GB Ram)

Quest 3

HP Reverb G2

Software

Adobe Premiere Pro / Insta 360 Studio

Maybe:

klingai.com⁠?

runwayml.com⁠?

Planned workflow:

Record a real 360° bathroom scene with the Insta360 X4

Generate the vomiting person using AI video tools

Remove the AI video background

Composite the AI character into the 360° footage in Premiere Pro using VR Plane to Sphere

Export as a VR-ready 360° video/splat for Quest 3 / PCVR

My question:

Does this workflow seem solid enough? Is it even possible to put an animated person into a gaussian splat - or are there better approaches currently available?

I'd be happy for any advice!

If my post violates sub rules please let me know and I will delete it asap.

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u/CouchCoopCoach — 3 days ago