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Comment by tommoor | Hacker News Reader

Oh man, the first company to put this in a mobile app is going to blow up.

(I guess it might take a few years for the performance to get there)

Totally what I thought too after seeing this: https://twitter.com/smeddinck/status/1032970885148364800 And, yes of course, the models should easily run in the cloud. Could be a whole application series of "make your friends do X", where X is a hilariously remapped activity ... bonus here: it probably does not hurt if the results are somewhat crappy at times.

Isn’t there a patent / copyright or something for taking all the algorithms / structures in the tech stack that this relies on? (GAN , densePOSE , etc)

Is any tech that is published in arxiv just free game immediately? Seems unfair to the researchers

It's their choice to publish.

Why wouldn't this be possible now?

Probably because they're not powerful enough to render the video yet.

Wouldn't the solution to that be to render in the cloud?

Then your problem becomes 'How to you monetize an app that costs us $20 in GPU cloud time every time someone taps a button'

Maybe Uber will be interested!! They could embed it in their drivers cars

Reminds me of deepart.io...

They started with a single GPU. As the waiting queue was getting longer, they made a paid feature that would let you get your results faster. Then they rented more GPUs with that money.

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