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This is pretty exciting - it looks like Lytro finally found a good use for light-field photography. Trying to shorehorn the concept into a camera product was ne
by mortenjorck 11y ago
This is pretty exciting - it looks like Lytro finally found a good use for light-field photography. Trying to shorehorn the concept into a camera product was never going to take off - as admirably as the company tried, refocusing an image in post was ultimately proven a novelty that the market was never going to consider worth all the trade-offs in resolution and convenience.
This has the look of a perfect pivot: Capturing light fields could turn out to be the key to VR video, and Lytro is poised to make the ARRI Alexa of the industry.
- GhotiFish 11y agothis is the first time I have ever heard of "light-field photography" and I am at a loss as to why this is exciting or a critical technology for VR. I don't get it. Why is having a grid of slight perspective shifts better than just have two perspectives for each eye?
- CarVac 11y agoThe viewer's head isn't stationary, so you have to have a perspective for each possible eye location.
- GhotiFish 11y agothis is the first time I have ever heard of "light-field photography" and I am at a loss as to why this is exciting or a critical technology for VR. I don't get it. Why is having a grid of slight perspective shifts better than just have two perspectives for each eye?