Absolutely not true. The pose estimator linked to in CVPR (Shotton et. al) shipped with the Kinect. I don't know more examples from that list in particular but

Absolutely not true. The pose estimator linked to in CVPR (Shotton et. al) shipped with the Kinect. I don't know more examples from that list in particular but there are two other examples of academia + research labs producing solid world-class products: SLAM : A model checker for drivers written for Windows. Cilk : Out of MIT acquired by Intel. UT austin + CMU were responsible for HW model checking (see FDiv bug) I find it very hard to believe that none of these papers will be used by anyone ever in a decade or two from now.