I probably wouldn't go as far as the future of astrophotography imaging - the depth information is wholly based on educated guesses by an algorithm. I, for one, would not want a future based on assumptions or educated guesses.
Nevertheless these sorts of pseudo, stereo or VR renditions may be quite valuable as a tool to - quite literally - lend a fresh perspective to what you captured. This perspective (if based on sound assumptions about the physics going on) may well help you decide to process an image differently.
For example, many astrophotographers - consciously or unconsciously - make the assumption that if something is black, it is automatically sitting in the background, with similar assumptions about bright objects sitting in the foreground. These 3D renditions challenge these pre-conceived notions by generating 3D depth information based on some common rules/assumptions on gas and radiation behavior.
Given the popularity of luminance or range mask crutches in many software applications, such an assumption may well be detrimental to your images; brightness does not correlate with importance!
Often times, we can only see dark objects (or their outlines) by virtue of them obscuring something brighter. Bok globules are good examples of such self-contained dark structures. Similarly bright DSO cores are often embedded and shrouded by enveloping gas. HII areas often have cavities (The Rosette is a great example of this) where fierce stellar winds of O and B-class blue giants are blowing away the gas and dust of their nursery. And so on.
If you like astronomy and/or practice astrophotography, it is worth thinking about the objects you capture as 3D objects. This tool is meant to help with that.
It may well serve to better inform you next time you choose to use a local dynamic range optimisation tool for example. The local detail you are bringing out may well be shrouded in gas or remnants of its birth. Negating the diffuse gas that it is shrouded in may well be compromising a faithful rendering. Realising this you now have a better informed choice to make.
Clear skies!
