Today we’re excited to release Volinga Plugin Pro 0.8.0, a major update that removes the biggest barriers between building real-time Gaussian Splat worlds in Unreal Engine and actually shipping them into the real world.
This release is about more than new features. It’s about unlocking adoption, performance, and deployment so virtual production teams, VR creators, and studios can go from experiment to production to delivery with confidence.
Until now, our real-time workflows have been incredibly powerful, but often difficult to deploy at scale. With version 0.8.0, Volinga becomes something more: a platform for building and delivering real-time worlds, giving you the freedom to deploy without restrictions. We listened and now we offer better solutions for license management, multi-node support, and scene distribution.
Volinga Plugin Pro 0.8.0 introduces a completely new in-engine License Manager inside Unreal Engine. This means:
This alone removes one of the biggest blockers to evaluating and scaling Volinga in real-world environments.
One of the most important additions in v0.8.0 is Deployment Licenses. You can now package Unreal Engine projects built with Volinga and distribute them watermark-free, without requiring any Volinga license on the end-user machine. This unlocks entirely new use cases:
Your real-time Gaussian Splat world is no longer locked behind a licensed Unreal editor. It can now be installed, shared, and experienced anywhere.
Volinga Plugin Pro 0.8.0 expands Volinga’s capabilities for VR by removing the traditional barriers to deploying Unreal Engine–based experiences at scale. With the introduction of Deployment Licenses, VR projects built with Volinga can now be packaged and delivered watermark-free, without requiring any Volinga license on the end-user machine — making it ideal for museum installations, location-based experiences, brand activations, interactive storytelling, and VR games. Combined with Performance Preferred Mode, which delivers higher frame rates and more stable playback, Volinga enables smooth, comfortable, and production-ready VR experiences.
This release also introduces new rendering modes designed for demanding real-time environments.
Performance Preferred Mode is optimized for high-FPS playback, making it ideal for LED volumes, camera-tracked stages, and multi-node setups where stability and responsiveness are critical.
Translucency Mode introduces a new translucency pipeline with dedicated base and translucency passes, allowing Gaussian Splats to blend cleanly with volumetrics, skies, fog, and atmospheric effects — essential for cinematic virtual production.
Together, these modes ensure that Volinga delivers both speed and visual fidelity, even in the most complex real-time pipelines.
Volinga Plugin Pro 0.8.0 includes support for Unreal Engine 5.7, keeping Volinga aligned with the latest real-time rendering and virtual production workflows.
With Volinga Plugin Pro 0.8.0, real-time Gaussian Splat workflows finally move beyond experimentation and into true production and delivery. By combining frictionless in-engine licensing, watermark-free deployment, and performance-optimized rendering, Volinga now gives studios, creators, and technologists the ability to build cinematic real-time worlds and distribute them across LED volumes, VR headsets, museums, and client environments with confidence. This release doesn’t just add features. It fundamentally expands what’s possible when real-time worlds are no longer constrained by licensing, performance, or distribution limits.
“With Plugin Pro 0.8.0, we’re removing the final barriers between creating real-time worlds and actually delivering them. Studios can now deploy Volinga-powered experiences across LED stages, VR headsets, museums, and client environments, without watermarks, licensing friction, or performance compromises.”
– Fernando Rivas Manzaneque, CEO and Co-Founder of Volinga