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Comment by s3p

1 day ago

Don't phones do this now? I remember Lytro cameras, they were really exciting.

Phone cameras fake it.

They don't capture a light field like Lytro did, they capture a regular image with a very deep depth of field, extract a depth map (usually with machine learning, but some phones augment it with stereoscopy or even LIDAR on high end iPhones) and then selectively blur based on depth.