I understand AI for reasoning, knowledge, etc. I haven't figured out how anyone wants to spend money for this visual and video stuff. It just seems like a bad idea.

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accurrent 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Simulation. It takes a lot of effort today to bring up simulations in various fields. 3 D programming is very nontrivial and asset development is extremely expensive. If I have a workspace I can take a photo of and just use it to generate a 3d scene I can then use it in simulations to test ideas out. This is particularly useful in robotics and industrial automation already.

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jijijijij 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't see any examples of a 3D scene information usable for simulation. If you want to simulate something hitting a table, you need the whole table (surface) in space, not just some spatial illusion effect extrapolated from an image of a table. I also think modelling the 3D objects for simulation is the least expensive part of an simulation... the simulation is the expensive thing.

I doubt this will be useful for robotics or industrial automation, where you need an actual spatial, or functional understanding of the object/environment.

	▲	accurrent 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With research like this you need to start somewhere. The fact we can get 3d information helps. There are people looking into making splats capture collision information [1]. I have worked on simulation and in my day job do a lot of simulation. While physics is oftem hard and expensive you only need to write the code once. Assets? You need to comission 3d artists and then spend hours wrangling file formats. Its extremely tedious. If we could take a photo and extract meshes Im sure we'd have a much easier time. [1] https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

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netsharc 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Photo apps on phones (can you still call them cameras?) already have a lot of "AI" to enhance photos and videos taken. Some of it is technological necessity, since you're capturing something through a tiny hole, a lot of it is sexying it up to appeal to people, because hey, people would prefer a cinema-quality depiction of their memories rather than the reality...

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rv3392 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This specific paper is pretty different to the kind of photo/video generation that has been hyped up in recent years. In this case, I think this might be what they're using for the iOS spatial wallpaper feature, which is arguably useless but is definitely an aesthetic differentiator to Android devices. So, it's indirectly making money.

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re-thc 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do people not spend on entertainment? Commercials? It's probably less of a bad idea than knowledge. AI giving a bad visual has less negatives than giving the wrong knowledge leading to the wrong decision.