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Today, we're introducing SimFoundry, our real2sim2real framework at NVIDIA GEAR that automatically turns real-world scenes into simulation-ready worlds from a single image or video. Website: Paper: This work marks a major step for our team toward leveraging simulations and synthetic data for foundation model training and systematic policy evaluation... show more

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