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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Augmented Reality: plenoptics

via Beyond The Beyond by Bruce Sterling on 1/25/11

*Adobe plenoptics. Note that this is a digital-FX company getting into the camera biz.

*Not mere vaporware:

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/09/23/the-first-plenoptic-camera-on-the-market/

*And check this out: a similar “fly’s eye condenser” for very small, very bright projectors. Hello, projection-mapping.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/27127/page1/

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/six-millimeters-thick-pico-projector.html

(((It’s all about replacing expensive, fragile camera hardware with cheap, absorptive surfaces, plus massive computation on-the-fly.)))

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