This is a great writeup. We sent our Chief Scientist to CVPR and he came away with a lot of the same conclusions - and now he wants to apply CNN to teach our cloud-based large scale SLAM map better real world objects :P.

More broadly though it was clear that most of the really good real time environmental applications for CV (SLAM etc...) are being applied to autonomous navigation. That's great but it crowds out investments in the stuff like we (Visidraft) are doing with AR and makes hiring and finding investors harder.