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Can optical flow and gravity improve camera-based 3D reconstruction without becoming permanent parts of the inference pipeline? This episode explains the training design, benchmark evidence, and practical implications of motion- and gravity-aware feed-forward reconstruction. We cover three questions: how training-only geometric hints enter VGGT and Pi3, why residual flow is a useful alternative to full optical flow, and what architecture-dependent injection points reveal about geometric representations. The discussion connects these choices to privileged-information learning and to the surrounding ecosystem of pretrained geometry tools. It focuses on multi-view reconstruction using real ETH3D imagery and synthetic TartanAir wide-baseline scenes, with robot perception as the intended application context. The central limitation is whether the evaluation actually isolates dynamic-scene robustness: difficult viewpoint changes and improved average geometry do not automatically establish better handling of independently moving objects. TartanAir's wide-baseline benchmark is explicitly biased toward static objects. For researchers choosing between a larger deployed model and a richer training pipeline, where should the next unit of engineering effort go?
