Very true Eben about the overselling-the-verisimilitude­.

It's an odd thing; I can't imagine the traditional art music world embracing this too warmly either. By the same token, in a non-traditional setting where subtle dynamics are not crucial (like a rock concert), piano samples on synths already sound enough like the real thing to obviate the need for an instrument like this.

A recording studio might make good use of it; a mic'd piano, after all, is itself an electronic simulation of the acoustic sound.

I do wonder if they did, indeed, sample the notes at different amplitudes, since they put so much care into other timbral aspects of the instrument. If so, then it would be true that the vast majority would never be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the simulation.