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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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