Hi! I lead the development of this dataset. I'm delighted that it found its way onto Hacker News :D Anyway, we think this type of data could eventually be use

Hi! I lead the development of this dataset. I'm delighted that it found its way onto Hacker News :D Anyway, we think this type of data could eventually be used for a wide range of tasks that people care about, e.g., photo re-lighting, virtual home remodeling, and safe indoor robot navigation. Note that these are my personal views as a computer vision researcher that works extensively with synthetic data.