Yeah, I'm likewise a bit underwhelmed by the results.
If you go in with the expectation that you give it a single image and it's doing gaussian splatting from a single image and a prompt it's phenomenal. If you deviate too far from the image viewpoint it breaks down, but it looks decent long enough to be very usable. But if you go in with the expectation that it's generating "worlds" it's not very good. This only passes as a world in a 20 second tech demo where the user isn't given camera controls
My best guess is that they are forced (by investors, lack of investors, fear of the AI bubble, or whatever) to release something, and this was something they could polish up to production quality and host with reasonable GPU resources
I assume this is definitely the case, with a drive to create platform economics on their sharing platform so that there is platform lock-in when any better thing releases. This is more of a platform launch than any notable model launch imo.
If you go in with the expectation that you give it a single image and it's doing gaussian splatting from a single image and a prompt it's phenomenal. If you deviate too far from the image viewpoint it breaks down, but it looks decent long enough to be very usable. But if you go in with the expectation that it's generating "worlds" it's not very good. This only passes as a world in a 20 second tech demo where the user isn't given camera controls
My best guess is that they are forced (by investors, lack of investors, fear of the AI bubble, or whatever) to release something, and this was something they could polish up to production quality and host with reasonable GPU resources