i'm doing my masters in computer vision and augmented reality and am really surprised how these apps keep getting really big which are essentially just implemen

i'm doing my masters in computer vision and augmented reality and am really surprised how these apps keep getting really big which are essentially just implementations of research papers that are out there and public. In a way it makes me feel good because i know "i could do that". But obviously the hardest part is having the idea in the first place.