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Re:No lens? No problem for FlatCam by stared on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @02:55PM (#10698960)
It looks like a Lytro camera, but going one step further. In general, the main idea is the same: using mask and then recovering the full light field.

While it looks that Lytro was/is not a great commercial success, I see that the field progresses. And very likely we will see things which can't be done in a different ways (e.g. pseudo-3D camera for videos... or 3d teleconferences).

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Re:No lens? No problem for FlatCam by sbierwagen on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:40PM (#10699765)
A Lytro camera uses many small image sensors with many lenses. No mask is involved.

The conventional Lytro cameras are of pretty questionable utility, but light field cameras show some promise for capturing VR video: https://www.lytro.com/immerge

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Re:No lens? No problem for FlatCam by stared on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:18PM (#10700900)
In Lytro there is a mask, but of a different kind - of lenslets. See e.g. this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/3-intro-lightfields
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