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Stanford researchers developing 3D camera with 12,616 lenses March 20, 2008

Filed under: Tech Trippers — scorchman @ 3:43 pm
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Now this is amazing technology in full effect…If a digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself”, you
’d get a 2-D photo, but you’d also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic “depth map” containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D.

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