Some people at Berkeley are currently doing fast automated 3D model generation like this. Looks quite nice:
www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/~f ...

My opinion is that they are improving on the January annoucement of A9 (Amazon's sister company) on 2D pictures for the Yellow Pages.

See a9.com/-/company/media/index.j ...

To go one step further and compete better , Google wants 3D instead of 2D