They could be a great application for niches, though. Prototyping 3d games or movies can be helped greatly by such techniques. If you can take a photo (effort

They could be a great application for niches, though. Prototyping 3d games or movies can be helped greatly by such techniques. If you can take a photo (effort required: seconds) and turn it into a textures low- to mid-poly model within seconds, that's a huge time saver right there. Combined with other techniques [1], [2] this could indeed present a viable business model - again for certain niches. It's the same old routine: identify potential, present solution, profit (if only for a limited time). On its own this might not look too useful/impressive, but I'm certain there's people out there who could already benefit greatly from this work. It's not always about "the next big thing" or "turning an entire industry on its head". I could see this work its way into various products without much fanfare and gazillion dollar valuations. [1] https://github.com/Shimingyi/MotioNet https://github.com/Shimingyi/MotioNet [2] https://deepai.org/publication/end-to-end-learning-for-3d-facial-animation-from-raw-waveforms-of-speech https://deepai.org/publication/end-to-end-learning-for-3d-fa...