alt Hacker NewsThe novel aspect here seems to be 3D LiDAR output from 2D video using post-training. As far as I'm aware, no other video world models can do this.
IMO, access to DeepMind and Google infra is a hugely understated advantage Waymo has that no other competitor can replicate.
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moffkalast • yesterday at 10:32 PM
It's not unheard of, there are a handful [0] of metric monodepth methods that output data that's not unlike a really inaccurate 3D lidar, though theirs certainly looks SOTA.
3d from moving 2d images has been a thing for decades.