In the recent months, there has been a lot of progress in the capabilities of the 3D map visualization within QGIS. With support for various 3D data formats, QGIS 3D is moving far beyond the simple viewer when it was first released in QGIS 3.0 in 2018.

This talk summarizes the work that has been done in 2025 and 2026 to make QGIS 3D faster, more powerful and easier to use. We will discuss support for ESRI’s scene layers (I3S / SLPK), improvements to 3D Tiles support, significant performance improvements for handling of vector layers and much more!