[dagmx]

Why would you limit one to your local hardware and one to a cloud infrastructure?

Both can be done locally or on cloud? the comparison point becomes moot if you change the parameters that drastically

[jamwise]

There wouldn't be any cloud. Splats are still local, but all the lighting and texture are pre-rendered. The problem is they're not interactive, so they'd be good for a lot of the environment but your main character and other things that need to be interactive would need to use a different approach.