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I'm not even going to pretend that I have a clue on how this is done. But I'm wondering if the output can be turned into 3d objects that can be used in any of the 3D modeling software? It would be a game changer in terms of real world product development in both of speed and ease.

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Well they even have a “downlod model” so yep you definitely can. I wouldn’t think of this as an amazing panacea though, since once everyone has access to it that suddenly means whatever reason making assets like this was valuable before, will now be dirt cheap for all and thus actually net negative for people in that industry. Just saying and warning, not to be a bummer

Thx, I went back and saw that I missed this the first time:

"Mesh exports Our generated NeRF models can be exported to meshes using the marching cubes algorithm for easy integration into 3D renderers or modeling software."

Like they say, "This is the start of something big."

FWIW, there's still a pretty big gap between a single static mesh and something that is a usable asset, say in a game. Maybe this could provide a shortcut for a modeler to get started, but it still is going to take a lot of skill from that point.

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