lytro adapts its light field expertise to custom VR camera system

lytro adapts its light field expertise to custom VR camera system 
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lytro is entering the virtual reality market using its patented light field solution ‘immerge’, which provides a lifelike presence for live action recording through six degrees of freedom. breaking away from the creative limitations of existing tools designed for flat video frames, lytro ‘immerge’ is built from the ground up to seamlessly blend live action and computer graphics using light field data. with configurable capture and playback solutions, it supports a range of new immersive storytelling needs. 

the company will offer a complete system with storage and processing servers that offer ultra-high bandwidth direct-to-disk abilities. the camera uses various altered shots and seams them simultaneously and utilizes a dense light field array to capture a whole 360-degree image. 

the camera will capture all the surrounding light rays lytro designed the camera from scratch   the cameras are so complex, lytro have created their own servers to handle the data