Using CGI/video game models to train AI

I am currently doing research for a college class project right now on computer vision/object detection.

I am wondering if the use of video game engines to generate 3D models of people, animals, cars, and random objects is ever used to train AI on what to detect. For example, you could generate multiple angles of a 3D module of a car crash, then feed this data to AI. Rather then having to actually film an actually car crash in real …

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