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we have this really cool demo with the Lytro camera have you guys seen this it's a wild wild demo would you stick around and help out with this demo do you be willing to do that so we're gonna we're gonna be back in a second with that but Neil I actually went and talked to people who put together this camera which is completely insane so take a look at this clip and we'll be right back with an actual real demo of it so this is a microlens array this used to be a room full of cameras and we've miniaturised it to this we capture the direction of light or the angle or vector of light if you're a physics person and when you do that you get capabilities in a camera that you don't have with conventional cameras and the very first one which some folks have been talking about is focusing after the fact but we also have benefits like 3d shift perspective and lots of things that can come as you capture all of that additional data and the way it works is that light comes into the lens it's an 8 x f2 optical lens so lots of light flows into the camera it strikes the special light field sensor right here then right on the camera we process that data that light field picture file so you can refocus directly on the camera you can also refocus and interact with the picture on your desktop and when you share the light field picture throughout the web you share it in a player like a YouTube player so that your friends and family can interact with a light-filled picture without needing any special software that's very cool stuff but you actually demo it right here right now we've got Neal I Paul and Matthias is going to be their lab assistant so take it away hey gentlemen I'm gonna hang out here and have a cigarette so this is the the lytro and as you can see it's completely no frills this is all the stock for the lens right here and I'm actually I'm going to take a picture right now you saw the video and I can refocus after i take this but i'm going to put the book close josh is in the background took and now it processes the photo and then I can tap to refocus all right don't let me t is working it's working so well write something was happening on on the screen of that ok yeah Lil ize got a photobomb me right here we're gonna see this in action is that's hard to free gotta cater photo/pablo oh yeah yeah there we go that's good it's more of a zombie Bob just like John Cusack in this thing yes what does that say anything does that say anything yes yeah I feel very passionate about that Sony like can you talk about the sensor a little bit yeah I'm actually holding it and I was told that if I lose this the PR person will lose their job so I'm gonna go now so this thing is actually this is the core bit of technology but sits behind here is just a regular like CMOS camera sensor but this thing sees light rays it's kind of like a super crazy advanced prism and once they collect all the light rays in the sensor they can do things like when you saw is wearing 3d glasses you can look around the picture it's just one camera to do 3d it's kind of like really insane snow time it's truly crazy looking I mean you guys will see it but it just you can manipulate the photo as if it's lie yeah it's like it's like you know if you got shooting raw and your regular cameras like this is the next layer you're collecting light instead of like your what the sensor thinks is in hands yeah you can literally do the enhanced thing only like enhance and you actually focuses on the back and you can go into a reflection and see back what's happening you can't do that does it say in the future it doesn't see the future but it sees in the past it can submit it can solve it can find replicants correct absolutely ok good yeah because you don't have megapixel rating it's just it's like 15 megabytes per file yeah all that information is always gonna be they say it's mega raised right they call their coin right ladies watches it's like yeah that's cool its 4G to you got to learn the terminology the future well I micro adding features right now they love you I loaded that the photo onto this computer took a while because this is an extreme beta this doesn't come out until next year I got shot but if you look at this can I do is yeah so just tap and it's gonna refocus that's good I prefer the other case Wow there we go is gonna solve suddenly that's great you there a good job there we go God that is insane yeah so right now right now it's just focusing on two planes but the final version will have a whole whole bunch that is that is so insane they make a giant can they make a giant one that's a huge guy to take pictures of huge thing yeah you've been like this scaled up yeah like that like the mall ten times the size of your own in that windows your desk I'll be great that yeah they can make sure the winco stone so anyways this is a 399 for the eight gigabyte the 16 gigabytes gonna be 499 it's going to come out next year this is just a beta right now but it's just it's completely new technology when it's really fun and the he bunt they've promised they're going to roll out additional features so all the pictures that you've taken thus far next year when they roll out the 3d those pictures will just magically become 3d which is bonkers you could also upload your photos to like Facebook or you can view them on an iPad I can't do you don't do the stuff yeah you can still adjust them forever and if you if you want to send it to your mom you can render out a JPEG of one focus and what you say mama can't use the focusing she's not smart enough huh I'm sorry yeah you should be I'm sorry Neil I to Joseph a dad I'm just saying you know Facebook it's a little technology called flash which everybody loves that's not cool well that's awesome thank you guys so much for demoing it that is pretty ugly