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| Oct 7, 2021 | Light Field Lab shows off SolidLight high-res holographic display | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| Mar 28, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 28 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Before Rebecca Kaden was a venture capitalist, she was a journalist. She worked for the Economist in London and later as a special projects editor at an online literary publication.
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| Mar 27, 2018 | Lytro, a light-field imaging startup, is shutting down | Lytro, the light-field imaging startup focused on virtual reality, is shutting down. In a blog post, Lytro said it’s going to begin winding down and will not be taking on any new productions or providing new services.
Earlier this month, we... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Google has reportedly acquired Lytro, the Leader in Light Field Imaging Technology for Photography and VR Content
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Search | In November Patently Apple posted a report about Apple acquiring InVisage with well over 100 patents on quantum dot technology. At the end of that report I had noted: "Here's to hoping that Lytro is on Apple's shopping list f... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 21 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Pär-Jörgen Pärson, a general partner at Swedish growth investment firm Northzone, made a really great bet 10 years ago. He led Spotify’s Series A round in 2008.
Paid Content You can't secure what you can't se... |
| Mar 20, 2018 | Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M | Last week, Google showed off a new app to display immersive photography in virtual reality, and a multi-camera technique for capturing it, and now it looks like there may be plans to enhance that with some bolted-on technology created by a ... |
| Feb 4, 2018 | Inside Limitless and Lytro’s quest for the next evolution in VR characters | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the past few months I’ve seen some really impressive stuff in VR. From standing atop the mountains of Skyrim, gazing down at a seemi... |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Light Field Lab raises $7 million for Holodeck-like holographic displays | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Light Field Lab has raised $7 million for holographic display technologies that the company says will make you wonder whether what you’... |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Light Field Lab raises $7 million for Holodeck-like holographic displays | Light Field Lab has raised $7 million for holographic display technologies that the company says will make you wonder whether what you’re seeing is real or an illusion.
The money comes from Khosla Ventures and Sherpa Capital, with participa... |
| Dec 30, 2017 | A Major Apple Patent published in Europe this week Covers Near-Eye Displays for Augmented Realty Glasses
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Search | In July Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Patent Reveals the Exciting Possibility of Augmented Reality Smartglasses." The invention for the AR glasses was inherited when acquiring Metaio who likely played a large role i... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Apple Acquired InVisage with well over 100 Patents on Quantum Dot Technology for Advanced Cameras and Beyond
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Search | Earlier today Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Acquires a Next-Gen Leader in Quantum Dot Technology and Image Sensors that could Eliminate Sony in iDevices," that provided a little history of TSMC working with InVisage... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Apple Wins Key Patent for Light Field Cameras that could deliver an Immersive AR Experience for Macs, iDevices & Headset
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Search | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 68 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover an important patent related to future Immersive Augmented Reality that could be used on ... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | Lytro’s light field vision finally shows its worth | While many of the virtual reality experiences being shown off at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival are pushing boundaries in VR story-telling techniques, “Hallelujah” is perhaps most noteworthy because of the cutting-edge tech used to shoot th... |
| Mar 20, 2017 | Apple's Augmented Reality Team is bringing in more Specialists to work on their Future Platform
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Search | Patently Apple has been following Apple's augmented reality patents since 2009 and our archives present a wide spectrum of ideas over the years. We've also posted a series of special reports on the matter. The first was posted in ... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | NEA Joins $60M Funding for Lytro | Mountain View, California-based Lytro, a developer of a light field imaging platform, has raised $60 million in funding, according to a blog post on its site. Blue Pool Capital led the round with participation from other investors that incl... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Lytro Raises $60M in Funding | Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based provider of light field imaging platform for artists, scientists and innovators, raised $60m in funding.
The round was led by Blue Pool Capital, with participation from EDBI, Foxconn, Huayi Brothers ... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 16 | SNAP CRACKLE DROP
Snap goes low: Either Snap is setting itself up for a big pop, or the company’s underwriters are nervous about how the market reacted to Snap’s slowing growth and major losses.
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| Feb 15, 2017 | Lytro pursues 360-degree video and cinematic tools with $60M Series D | Ever-shifting camera tech company Lytro has raised major cash to continue development and deployment of its cinema-level camera systems. Perhaps the company’s core technology, “light field photography” that captures rich depth data, will be... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Lytro raises $60 million to bring light field VR technology into Asia | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lytro may have had some setbacks in 2016, but it appears to be onto something. Investors have noticed the potential of the company’s li... |
| Jan 14, 2017 | A Next-Gen Smartphone Designed by Ex-Apple and Google Engineers will Launch Later this Year
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Search | Apple supplier Foxconn was in the news on Friday in three unique instances. Our first report covered the rumor of a possible LCD Plant in the U.S. and our second report covered an investment in the Israeli company called Core Photonics that... |
| Sep 5, 2016 | Lytro’s Immerge VR demo shows the promise of lightfield video | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
An astronaut steps out from the lunar lander in front of me, beginning the familiar “one small step for man” line before a voice shouts... |
| Jul 9, 2016 | The reality of AR/VR survival | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
VR will be big,... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | In a VR world | I
n 1895, audiences sat down to watch “L’Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de La Ciotat,” an early film that showed a train pulling into a station. Legend has it that when viewers saw the train barreling toward them they panicked, because they had... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Lytro’s new Cinema camera is designed to help filmmakers nail that ‘impossible shot’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lytro started off developing consumer handheld ca... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | 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.
The company’s light field solution is a truly beautiful technology that may eventually be in every camera we snap a shot or video with. The tec... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Lytro’s new Cinema camera is designed to help filmmakers nail that ‘impossible shot’ | Lytro started off developing consumer handheld cameras that utilized the company’s light-field technology. But its path wasn’t a winning one, as CEO Jason Rosenthal noted last month: “The cold hard fact was that we were competing in an esta... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Lytro dives into virtual reality filmmaking with debut of its Immerge video camera | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Since its debut in 2006, Lytro has produced devic... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Lytro dives into virtual reality filmmaking with debut of its Immerge video camera | Since its debut in 2006, Lytro has produced devices that leverage light-field technology, which captures information about the direction and intensity of light rays. Today, the company is applying this technology to the world of virtual rea... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Lytro Introduces ‘Immerge’ For Cinematic Virtual Reality | Camera maker Lytro is hopping into virtual reality. Today, it announced a product called “Immerge” which the company describes as “world’s first professional light field solution for cinematic VR.”
What does that mean exactly?
Well Lytro wa... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/27/15 | Iotera, Knowmail, Getable, Xero, Twenty20, Metamarkets, Leankor, Branch Metrics, Silent Circle,
Seed stage
Iotera, a real-time GPS tracking device that can be used to track a whole host of things, raised a $1 million round of seed funding r... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Lytro Raises $50M |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Lytro announced that it has raised $50 million.
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Lytro has announced that it has raised $50 milli... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Iceland in 3D: Photographer’s amazing shots with Lytro’s Illum camera | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Iceland: land of Björk, Sigur Rós, and icebergs.
But it’s also a place of beauty, according to photographer Chris Burkard. Although the... |
| Nov 6, 2014 | Lytro Hits Up The Enterprise With The Introduction Of The Lytro Platform And Dev Kit | Lytro has been working for three years to build a brand new type of camera with light field technology, and while the tech itself is quite incredible, transforming that into a viable business has proven difficult.
Until now, the company has... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | Not All Hot Startups Live Up To Their “Change The World” Billing—And We Have Data | There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangi... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | Lytro's light-field photos get their first outside showcase on photo site 500px | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lytro‘s “living pictures” are now taking on more ... |
| May 6, 2014 | How The HTC One M8 Camera Performs In The Real World | I approach every smartphone review with a heavy degree of skepticism. I attend the launch event, listen to all the glowing things company executives have to say about their new flagship device and then wait for my review unit to show up in ... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Blur Wars: Google’s Camera App vs. The iPhone 5S And A Real Camera | You know when a photo has that fuzzy background thing going on and the subject is sharp while the rest looks all dreamy? That technique, usually achieved by setting a camera’s controls to a wide aperture—the smaller the f-stop number, the b... |
| Apr 22, 2014 | Lytro’s new Illum camera brings light-field tech to pros (and it could change photos forever) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two years after Lytro debuted its innovative light-field camera, the startup is back with something bigger and better in every way.
Lyt... |
| Nov 26, 2013 | Apple takes a cue from Lytro, patents refocusable camera tech for iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How can Apple take the already excellent iPhone camera to the next level? How about being able to refocus images after you’ve taken the... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Lytro Raises $40M Financing | Lytro, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based provider of a consumer light field camera, raised a $40m round of financing.
Backers included new investor North Bridge Venture Partners and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Assoc... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Lytro Raises $40M |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Creator of the world's first consumer light field camera, today announced that it has raised a $40 million round of financing.
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>> To export Lytro funding d... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Nokia Refocus now available for flagship Lumia smartphones | Finnish maker Nokia has released Nokia Refocus, a new app for its flagship Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones with PureView cameras that allows users to choose new focus points after snapping pictures. The feature is similar to what Lytro ca... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | Ex-Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal gets new gig as Lytro CEO | The installation goes into effect April 15
Some seven months after Ning was acquired by Glam Media, former CEO Jason Rosenthal has a new gig: he’s now the CEO of light field camera company Lytro. The company announced Tuesday that Rosenthal... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | TechCrunch Giveaway: Brand New Lytro Camera And Free Ticket To Disrupt NY #TCDisrupt | TechCrunch Disrupt NY, one of our biggest events of the year, is well on its way! We have already begun to announce which special guests and speakers will be joining us this April, but that’s only the beginning. We have so many exciting gue... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Gift Guide: Hands-On With Lytro’s Latest Features, Perspective Shift And Living Filters | Short Version
Lytro promised that its unique camera was only the beginning. The system allows the user to change focus of the picture after it’s taken, and the data contained in a single digital image taken with a camera is completely new a... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Joe Manariti: Founder of SWiM Communications | After early days studying to be a psychologist Joe fell into advertising and publishing, spent 6 terrific years at Fairfax between The Age and BRW. This eventually, after a couple of detours, led him to found SWiM, a Melbourne Web Design an... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Lytro Firmware Update Unlocks Manual Controls: Shutter Speed, ISO, And ND Filter | Today the Lytro Light Field Camera is receiving a firmware update that unlocks manual controls such as ISO sensitivity and shutter speed.
But just in case you haven’t heard of it yet, the Lytro is a revolutionary device. Instead of capturin... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Lytro Expands Retail Presence, To Be Available Next Month From Amazon, Target, And Best Buy | The $399 Lytro camera is a marvel of imaging technology and it will soon be a whole lot easier to buy. Starting in early October, the novel camera is hitting Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and Target.com, along with select CityTarget stores. The c... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Lytro Announces Support For Windows, Two Accessories And Free Shipping (This Week) | After launching earlier this year with Mac-only compatibility, Lytro has just announced that its desktop application now supports Windows. The company behind the miniature light field camera also rolled out two new accessories: a $20 USB wa... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund | I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P. – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund.
K9 Ventures started investing in 2009 with our first fund, K9 Ventures, L.P., which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Ren Ng Steps Down As Lytro CEO, Will Take Over As Executive Chairman; Charles Chi Named Interim CEO | Lytro Founder Ren Ng has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO and will be transitioning into the company’s Executive Chairman effective immediately. Charles Chi, the current Executive Chairman, has been named interim CEO until a more pe... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | The Lytro Camera Is Revolutionary, But It’s No iPhone | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The inventors and investors behind the Lytro, the hot new “light field” camera that creates refocusable digital photos, are trying to have it both ways. They’re arguing that t... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | The Lytro camera is out, but is it a revolution or gimmick? | Lytro cameras, the much-hyped photo gadget from a Silicon Valley startup, finally began shipping to customers on Wednesday, four months after the company started taking pre-orders. The cameras use something called light field technology to ... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Lytro: Why it might succeed in spite of its lackluster camera | There has been a lot of hype over the now shipping Lytro “light field” camera, with the resulting let down from some who are now getting actual production units in their hand. Its odd, if iconic, shape, the lack of video, and 1MP final imag... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | The Lytro camera is out, but is it a revolution or gimmick? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lytro cameras, the much-hyped photo gadget from a Silicon Valley startup, finally began shipping to customers on Wednesday, four months... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Lytro’s light field camera technology could supercharge future iPhones | reader comments 56 with 42 posters participating, including story author
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| Jan 12, 2012 | Lytro’s quirky camera is equal bits awkward, fun | Lytro's upcoming digital light field camera at CES 2012.
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| Jan 12, 2012 | Lytro’s “revolutionary” light-field camera wins Last Gadget Standing at CES | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Camera startup Lytro has won the Last Gadget Stan... |
| Jan 3, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: The most revolutionary products you’ll see in 2012 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 3, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: The most revolutionary products you’ll see in 2012 | Anyone can pick most interesting phones of 2011, but it takes real foolhardiness to predict the most revolutionary products of the coming year.
Call me a fool. I’m placing bets on these five products that will revolutionize technology in 20... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | RightNow, BlueStacks, Bridgelux: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our irregular roundup of business and technology news. Some of this is today’s news, and some is catch-up from last week:
$1.5 billion—The approximate price fetched b... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | Lytro’s new light field camera lets you focus after you take a picture | The tiny Lytro is the most technologically advanced point-and-shoot ever made.
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| Oct 21, 2011 | Lytro shoot first, focus later camera could revolutionize the way we take pictures | Article content
The Lytro light field camera, a revolutionary shoot-first, focus-later camera that launched this week could completely change the way we take pictures. |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Lytro unveils its revolutionary light field camera | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 19, 2011 | Lytro Makes Its Debut: Unique Form Factor, $400 Price Tag | The Lytro “focus later” camera has created a lot of interesting discussion on the web. With photography still in many ways the same as it was a century ago, this new way of capturing images has certainly struck a nerve. I’ve voiced my skept... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Lytro unveils its revolutionary light field camera | This slideshow requires JavaScript.
With Lytro’s new light field camera, you’ll never have to worry about your photos being out of focus — because it’s the first camera ever to let you focus your pictures after taking them.
The company debu... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Doubts About Lytro’s “Focus Later” Camera | I’ve been meaning to address this Lytro thing since it hit a few weeks ago. I wrote about omnifocus cameras as far back as 2008, and more recently in 2010, and while at the time I was more interested in the science behind the systems, thoug... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | How the Lytro No-Focus Light Field Camera Changes Photography | Building upon years of research by Stanford University, and with a PhD thesis and five further years of research in hand, Ren Ng has finally launched the infinite-focus, light field photography company Lytro. Fundamentally, a Lytro camera —... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Camera startup Lytro promises a "picture revolution" | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Photography lovers will surely be delighted to he... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Camera startup Lytro promises a "picture revolution" | Photography lovers will surely be delighted to hear the mission of the new startup Lytro. The company, which made itself known Tuesday, said it will to bring a new kind of camera to the consumer market and that its launch later this year wi... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | The Making of Lytro | This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng, introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng,... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV) | Love photos but utterly bored by wave after wave of iPhone photo sharing apps? Lytro is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of innovation-less posing. And it’s the company... |
