Why Standard Vision‑Language Models + Scale Data Beat Specialized 3D Vision Designs (VLM³)
Meta’s VLM³ demonstrates that a plain vision‑language model, when trained on large‑scale data with simple camera‑focal‑length and pixel‑space normalization, matches or surpasses expert 3D vision models across monocular depth estimation, object‑level understanding, pixel‑matching and camera‑pose tasks, eliminating the need for task‑specific architectures, loss functions, data augmentations or regression formulations.
