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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by akhatri_aus on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:27AM (#16635963)
It's likely for VR, the 'reverse' of the Lytro allows projection to the eye at multiple focal points.
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by jacobush on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:04AM (#16636110)
I don't know about "likely", but that is an awesome idea.
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by ipsum2 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:06AM (#16636122)
This already exists: http://lightfield-forum.com/light-field-camera-prototypes/nv... (among others)
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by taneq on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:22AM (#16636167)
Wow, that looks awesome! For something at the demonstration-prototype stage in 2013 I'd have hoped they would have something at least in development by now.
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by Qworg on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:40AM (#16636225)
They have a fully working version of it: https://vr.lytro.com/within/hallelujah
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by taneq on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:12AM (#16636341)
Looks awesome, but only an "experience" rather than something you can buy? I guess it would need an ultra-beefy system to run it, and is probably extremely expensive and not supported by much software (yet).
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by Qworg on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:15AM (#16636348)
They run it for you - it is a capture service. https://www.lytro.com/immerge#immergeDetails
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by ipsum2 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:53AM (#16636469)
We're talking about two different things. Hallelujah is interesting because it does light field videography, but what I linked was a light field display.
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M by ansible on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:41AM (#16636230)
My top candidate for AR in the longer term is a scanning pico-watt laser which projects the image directly onto your retina.
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