[tmilard]

Very interesting paper. I can see street-view using it to perfect the 3D analysing of the photo-video they catch with there google-car. What a wonderfull time we are living in ! Specificaly in the Video to 3D reconstruction. Every month, a new brick is put in place.Super

[wumms]

Street View cars added Velodyne LiDAR around 2017 [0][1], but it's optional. I found no data on 'LiDAR vs image only'-percentage.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/googles-street-view-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

[KeplerBoy]

It's safe to assume street view cars capture way more data than the stuff that ends up on the street view product.

[overfeed]

> I can see street-view using it to perfect the 3D analysing of the photo-video they catch with there google-car.

Waymo recently announced[1] a World Model that does exactly this: using footage from a single-camera dashcam, it can predict/simulate multiple inputs that would have been sensed by a Waymo vehicle on the same travel path (i.e. multiple camera angles, Lidar cloud, etc). On top of this, the model can be prompted to customize the scenario (adding an elephants or a tornado were the example given)

1. https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...