What did Google do with Lytro?
What did Google do with Lytro?
Multiple sources tell us that Google is acquiring Lytro, the imaging startup that began as a ground-breaking camera company for consumers before pivoting to use its depth-data, light-field technology in VR. Lytro reportedly holds 59 patents related to light-field and other digital imaging technology.
What is a Plenoptic function?
The plenoptic function is the 5-dimensional function representing the intensity or chromacity of the light observed from every position and direction in 3-dimensional space. This is because any particular ray through the convex space always intersects the same surface.
What is the Lytro light field camera?
A camera that allowed you to focus after you take the picture. Its subject was Lytro, a startup promising to make its technology available in a consumer product on the market within a year. And, sure enough, here is the Lytro Light Field Camera.
Can I change the subject of a picture on Lytro?
Through this platform and file type, the user has the ability to change what subject is in focus. And if they share this image through the Lytro Web, anyone they share the picture with also has the ability to change what subject is in focus. However, you cannot share a living picture outside the Lytro Web platform.
What’s new in the Lytro mobile app?
Replicating some of the functionality of Lytro’s existing desktop app, the mobile app allows you to refocus and change the perspective of your images and share the ‘living pictures’ via social media. Click through for more details. Lytro has announced two extra features for users of its Light Field Cameras – perspective shift and living filters.
What is Lytro Illum software?
Lytro Illum’s powerful in-camera software provides real-time feedback allowing for dramatic composition of every shot. With tablet-class processing power, Lytro Illum gives you an advanced set of playback controls that allow you to preview the dimensions of every picture right on the camera.
