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Camera Company Lytro Raises $50 Million to Move into VR

VRFocus- There’s no doubt that virtual reality (VR) is helping to surge the popularity of 360 degree videos, allowing users to put on a head-mounted display (HMD) and watch real-time footage as if they were really there. That said, a true standard for shooting VR video is yet to emerge in this early stage of the technology’s life. Camera company Lytro is hoping to make its mark on the industry as it has raised some $50 million USD in order to start working in VR.

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Limitless Joins Lytro, Combines Interactive Characters with Light-Field Technology

Limitless' animation and narrative experience will enhance Lytro's VR technology.

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Could Lytro's Cinema camera change film-making?

A professional cinema camera which allows the focus, aperture and perspective to be changed after it has been filmed has been developed by technology company Lytro.

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The 36 different perspectives affords you some freedom of movement in moving a virtual camera in post, but it is of course limited, affected by considerations like lens, focal length, and subject distance. It's not clear yet what that range of freedom is with the Cinema

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Lytro’s 755 megapixel Cinema light field camera is going to kill the green screen

Lytro is taking its rich volumetric 3D camera capture technology into the world of TV and film.

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