[tommoor]

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)

[compute_me]

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.

[abledon]

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

[MasterScrat]

It's their choice to publish.

[flattone]

Why wouldn't this be possible now?

[pcthrowaway]

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

[StephenMelon]

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

[yathern]

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

[MasterScrat]

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.

[abledon]

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