The novelty I see here, is the combination and integration into an app. Creating blurred images from a photograph and its depth map can be achieved with a GIMP

The novelty I see here, is the combination and integration into an app. Creating blurred images from a photograph and its depth map can be achieved with a GIMP plugin since at least 2008 [1]. Combining a series of photos to create a 3D model is also widely implemented, e.g. in the Photosynth application developed at U Washington/Microsoft which according to Wikipedia exists as a tech preview since 2006. [1] http://registry.gimp.org/node/1444 http://registry.gimp.org/node/1444