Google has been pretty bad with released product names, e.g. YouTube Red, Google Wave, G Suite, Google Assistant, Google Home Hub... not very creative

There is no "Google" for these purposes. Every org has their own practices and there's minimal central review. GFoo is in vogue in some parts of the company, but you won't see that branding in YouTube, Chrome, Android, Fuschia, etc.

You know, this is just one step away from someone making x-ray goggles

https://deepsukebe.io you know its good when UK MPs are calling for parliamentary debate

I don't understand how? Surely estimating someone's bone structure does not need a 3D model.

A image-to-skeleton pipeline might even be useful for 2D sprite rigging.

Pretty sure that's not what is intended. They used to sell supposed x-ray googles to gullible people, the ads implying you'd be able to see people naked.

The killer app that will take AR mainstream.

> They used to sell supposed x-ray googles to gullible people, the ads implying you'd be able to see people naked.

This is actually technology we already have today. You wouldn't want X-ray goggles, but infrared "goggles" would do the job just fine. Like X-rays, infrared light will pass right through clothes; unlike X-rays, it won't pass through skin.

Hook up an IR camera to a VR headset and you're there.

One day I was messing around with an IR camera for RPi and was surprised to see the magnets inside of my black plastic closed headphones.

It isn't about skeletons, it's about clothing.

If an ai can reconstruct a view of the far side of something from data like the near side view and the shadows & other effects on the surrounding environment, then it can do the same thing to reconstruct a view of what's underneath clothing, theoretically, which may be reasonably restated as eventually.

> If an ai can reconstruct a view of the far side of something from data like the near side view and the shadows & other effects on the surrounding environment, then it can do the same thing to reconstruct a view of what's underneath clothing

This is actually not something that people want. The body within clothes is generally constrained by them in ways that look odd if you can't see the clothes; what people really want is to see what someone would look like if they were naked, not what they would look like if their clothes were invisible.

Well, with the right training data I imagine you could make something that produce an imaginary model of what the person might look like naked in the same pose but unconstrained by clothing. Obviously though, like the system in the link, for everything it can't see it's just constructing it based on what it's been trained with.

Would be super creepy though.

> Would be super creepy though.

You're not thinking evil enough. Provide app for free, then use face recognition to allow people to pay to look better naked through the app.

I would assume the main use would be to see people you know, not to enhance yourself, but, I guess there would be a market for that too. Especially for content producers.

The amazon rep is a scam. Amazon would not waste their time to do a 3-way call with a technician. They always provide you with a refund or direct number if you ask... but that direct number is usually searchable. The fact that they 3-way call suggests they wanted to hide the phone number