The way reflections work in SMERF is wild!

That's actually what people used to do to create fake reflections on video games back in the day 🤓

Yes, I have shipped games that do this!

I love when you 3d scan a room and the light reflection gets seen as an entire like cave same with mirrors it’s like a duplicate room that is lower quality

100%

Is this the thing that’s like Gaussian splatting but not?

So thats where she comes from

So can video games be created with real life mapped environments? They look so much more realistic than 3D models.

Yes this is a new technique. There are downsides to the technique, but it's very promising for the future!