Does this have implications for gaming? I know character models with lots of "accessories" clip into walls and the character body very often, and from what I gathered, the belief was that this was a hard and manual problem to solve.
Might speed up the animation pipeline so artists can get to something physically plausible quicker but it doesn't seem like it's feasible to run in real time.
Why not? The skeleton model doesn’t appear to be doing full skin simulation, it simulates repulsion of the skeleton.