Well, this is pretty awesome.
It's no magic bullet as far as 3D modelling is concerned.
Certainly, not if you want game quality assets out of it.
But damn if it's not a quick way of mocking up a 3D that you can adjust and enhance.
And fan-fucking-tastic for advanced image editing in photoshop.
Which is the real prize here - that 3D tech can be incorporated into 2D image manipulation at a very low-cost (training and usage) for most users now.
Also, a fantastic way of creating a massive world wide object recognition database.
With other advances in AI tech and with a little bit of human cognitive processing power to aid, the technology to create a full-fledged, 3D mirror world isn't too far away at all.
Moreover, we can have that mirror world updated on a regular basis, so that we can actually search through the mirror world along a time line - essentially time traveling.
And this tech will allow us to extract 3D information easily from any photographic data from our past. The ideal here would be a VR-enabled Google maps that you can explore at any point along the time line for which digitized data exists of it, in high fidelity - afforded by AI driven 3D extrapolations of image/object data from photos.
