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Very nice. It will be interesting to see future results that work with real (non synthetic) scenes - I would not be surprised if that happens in just a few months.

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Why will you not be surprised if that happens in just a few months?

As a mere CG artist, I will still be experiencing the surprise of seeing these examples a few months ago.

Are any particular recent achievements, announcements or similar influencing your expectations? If so, please share.

I also wouldn't be surprised. Results in transfer learning from synthetic to real world vision tasks suggest to me that if you could train this system with (for example) GTA-V as the environment, it may work reasonably well in the real world.

In the last keynote Apple has shown that ARKit hallucinates scene elements that it can not see but tries to infer (such as lights above the scene). I wonder if they use a similar technique to this.

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