[timlod]

Do you have any source for scene reconstruction being hollywood-quality given 50+ images 10 years ago (assuming the images don't come from a controlled environment)? I can find for example this from 2016: https://substance3d.adobe.com/magazine/go-scan-the-world-pho... However, there's still a lot of manual work involved, and you don't easily get near-perfect PBR textures (which would be what I'd consider hollywood-quality). I'd say the devil is in the details - if you want the best quality, you'd still need to control a lot of the environment.

The more assumptions you can bake into the parameters of some model, the more degrees of freedom you get in the actual measurement process (e.g. reducing the amount of actual data necessary).

[fxtentacle]

Agisoft PhotoScan was publicly released in 2010 and I know someone who used the beta for scenes in a movie that hit cinemas in 2014.

But yes, the images totally came from a controlled environment. They rented like 50 similar cameras and hardware-synchronized the shutters.