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Ah great. Easier for real estate agents to show slow panning around a room, with lame music.

I guess there are other uses?? But this is just more abstracted reality. It will be innacurate just as summaried text is, and future peoples will again have no idea as to reality.

Is this the same model as the “Spatial Scenes” feature in iOS 26? If so, it’s been wildly impressive.
I was thinking of testing it, but I have an irrational hatred for Conda.
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does it make a mesh?

doesn't seem very accurate, no idea of the result with a photo of large scene, that could be useful for level designers

Apple is not a serious company if they can't even spin up a simple frontend for their AI innovations. I should not have to install anything to test this.
I don’t know when Apple turned evil but hard for me to support them further after nearly four decades. Everything they do now is directly opposite of what they stood for in the past.
Damn. I recall UC Davis was working on this sort of problem for CCTV footage 20 years ago, but this is really freakin' progress now.
"Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second"

"Less than a second" is not "instantly".

I wonder if it helps that a lot of people take more than one picture of the same thing, thus providing them with effectively stereoscopic images.
would love a multi-image version of this.
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Big day for VR pornography!

I'm not kidding. That's going to be >80% of the images/videos synthesized with this.

I feel like being in a time loop. Every time a big company releases a model, we debate the definition of open source instead of asking what actually matters. Apple clearly wants the upside of academic credibility without giving away commercial optionality, which isn't unsurprising.

Additionally, we might need better categories. With software, flow is clear (source, build and binary) but with AI/ML, the actual source is an unshippable mix of data, infra and time, and weights can be both product and artifacts.

License arguments aside, pretty cool.
Anyone's aware of something similar for making interactive (or video) tours of apartments from photos?