the use of this technology... (Score 3, Insightful)

is probably not going to be seen by the end user in games or movies or otherwise, as has been noted 3d models are allready as low poly as they can be. The only use that comes to mind is in the area of scanning real models into computers which outputs huge files and many many poly's, this is where an algorithym like this would be very useful to get a model that can be used without being overtaxing on system resources.