Sure, it solves for the primary view, but this is claiming it is a 3D scene reconstruction/inference technique and in that claim it only sort of works.
For example: https://i.postimg.cc/43tj36jv/Screenshot-2025-03-20-at-8-52-...
In the long run, yeah this *exact* application is sort of pointless. I expected to see the lens parameters factored into the process. It's not. This would mean that everything is not only dimensionally inaccurate since there's no reference measurement, but also proportionally inaccurate to other things in the scene. You can actually see the effect of that on the "flower car" example. (the entire shape of the car is warped) Let alone the fact that the entire scene that can't be seen in the original photo is made up.
Maybe someone would use this to make game assets? But you'd need to fix them up a ton before using them. Other sibling comments make the point that there's no wireframes... so we can assume the polygon count here is insane.
Either way... it's just neat.
Money.
Every single time a new "Generate 3D" thing appears, they never show the wireframes of the objects/scenes up front, always you need to download and inspect things yourself. How is this not standard practice already?
Not displaying the wireframes at all, or even offer sample files so we could at least see it ourselves, just makes it look like you already know that the generated results are unusable...
There are no materials channels or wireframe. It’s a volumetric 3D representation, like a picture made up of color blobs.
Apparently you can clone and run the demo locally. But wasn't clear at a glance how much is local and what hardware required.
This is a previous paper/work by the lead author a year before they interned at Google Research and produced Bolt3D.
Bolt3D appears to be his intern research project done in conjunction with a bunch of other Google and DeepMind researchers.
I don't suspect there will ever be publicly available code for this.
Given that it's a work done at Google I will not expect them to release source code. But it will be reproduced by someone else soon enough.
How do you know it's the actual implementation?
I agree, this is the way forward: - "some photos" as imput. - Convenient, a camera is in every pocket (Smartphone).
On WE, I have been trying for years to generate 3D from photos.My tool now works well, but there is still this big problem of the time it takes to "recreate" the 3D mesh from photos. I remind that photos are in ... 2D.Not convenient. Here is an example of my Tool's generation : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
Here, Bolt3d takes away the 4 hours combersome work into a automatic process. Wahoo !
So Bravo to the Bolt3d team of researchers.
