Posted by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago
In fact you wouldn't even need to be limited to earth. Why not throw in Google Moon and steal a moon buggy while shooting scientific rovers and doing cool flips out of craters?
It would be amazing if they could also take user-generated photos and videos at ground level and accurate mapping data (that has building outlines) and clean that up to something presentable.
I mean, what they do here is what google and apple are already doing for years. It's time for the next step.
This is gaussian splatting. I'm pretty confident that google/apple have not done that.
I suspect hybrid solutions will remove the limitations of GS, with (eventually...) some smooth hand off. Do clean-enough GS like this; then hand the output to other systems which covert into forms more useful for your application and which adopt e.g. textures from localized photos etc.
It's just a bit of engineering and compute...