It was an interesting challenge for us: from reconstructing tiny details to capturing the process from all sides without occlusion. Read more about the collaboration: imperial.ac.uk/news/articles…

This academic year, @imperialcollege students will try a new way of learning to solder, and anyone can follow along for free. Thanks to @imperialeee and @AdventuryXR for this great collaboration.

Soldering is best learned up close, watching an expert's hands. Now everyone has a chance to try it. Together with @imperialeee at Imperial College London, we captured a full soldering masterclass and processed it into 4D Gaussian Splatting-based content for students. Anyone can watch it in a VR headset or on 2D devices. The class covers the basic techniques required to hand-solder surface-mount and through-hole components on printed circuit boards (PCBs). It was a real co-design effort: we planned the capture together with the Imperial team, positioning cameras so that every fine detail stays visible from any angle, down to the tip of the soldering iron. Thank you to May Tang (Teaching Laboratory Technician), Tanmay Lad (PhD Candidate in Bioelectronics), and Dr Adrià Junyent-Ferré (Associate Professor in Power Electronics) for this collaboration. Try learning soldering via the Gracia app in XR or in the Gracia store on the web.