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Lytro Announces World's First Light Field VR Camera

Posted by timothy on from the you-are-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes: VR is easy for video games, but hard for live action: you don't know where the viewer will be in the virtual world, so you can't put the camera in the right place in the real world. Light field cameras are perfect for VR though, because they're essentially holographic, and capture lots of positions at once. And Lytro has announced the first system that's both 'light field' and 'holographic', which changes everything. Wired seems similarly excited.

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  1. Re:Anybody own a light field camera? by khr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got the first generation Lytro. It was a nifty toy for a while, but ultimately I wasn't happy with the quality of most of the pictures. Except for in bright sunlight they were all pretty grainy and dark. The changing of the focus is neat on some where something is very close and others are very far, but if everything is middle distance to far, it's not interesting.

    It was very hard to come up with good lightfield images that matched the demo ones on their website.

    Maybe I should take it out again, take a break from walking around with my SLR for a weekend or two, see what I get.