Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) is a technique to create models of complex 3d geometry from a set of photo/camera pose pairs. The way it usually works is that the 3d geometry you're interested in (a car, a tree, etc.) exists within a static, bounded space (e.g. a unit cube). This research changes that requirement, allowing you to create larger spaces without the memory and computational drawbacks of "just making the bounded space bigger."
I’d love to have some kind of remote robot that live streams to me as it goes around somewhere remote. Yes this has many obvious problems, but to be able to be in Tokyo for a few hours, hear the environment and direct what I want to see would be incredibly exciting to me.
And Matterport will never see them coming, as their employees are banned from using Luma:
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