> The team had experience working at light field capture and display maker Lytro in the past.
Lytro was killed (IMO) by a combination of unappealing pricing, horrible and locked-down software, and mediocre performance. I imagine mediocre performance would be more tolerable in a novel product if the stack were open for users to create interesting and unexpected things and the price were right.
Maybe the team can do better this time.
(Hint to hardware companies: if you build a walled garden around your hardware and prevent effective use of its capabilities, it’s a lot less appealing. And it serves no purpose if you can’t even make money off the walled garden. Users will make neat things for you for free if you let them, and other users will pay you for your product so they can use those neat things.)
(Other hint: don’t be like E Ink. The tech was great. They utterly squandered their patent period by setting the prices so high that only niche products used E Ink.)
> The manufacturing is quite complex. “What we’re doing is literally fusing silicone together. The nanoparticles are controlling, at the molecular level, the ability to propagate light, and form in constant amplitude playing with a numerical aperture that’s chemically formed,” he said.
Is he a person or a chatbot? This is utter nonsense. I can believe it contains terms related to their tech, but seriously?
> (Other hint: don’t be like E Ink. The tech was great. They utterly squandered their patent period by setting the prices so high that only niche products used E Ink.)
Any evidence for that? What patent? What patent period?
A black and white display can be a non-niche product?
> The team had experience working at light field capture and display maker Lytro in the past.
Lytro was killed (IMO) by a combination of unappealing pricing, horrible and locked-down software, and mediocre performance. I imagine mediocre performance would be more tolerable in a novel product if the stack were open for users to create interesting and unexpected things and the price were right.
Maybe the team can do better this time.
(Hint to hardware companies: if you build a walled garden around your hardware and prevent effective use of its capabilities, it’s a lot less appealing. And it serves no purpose if you can’t even make money off the walled garden. Users will make neat things for you for free if you let them, and other users will pay you for your product so they can use those neat things.)
(Other hint: don’t be like E Ink. The tech was great. They utterly squandered their patent period by setting the prices so high that only niche products used E Ink.)
> The manufacturing is quite complex. “What we’re doing is literally fusing silicone together. The nanoparticles are controlling, at the molecular level, the ability to propagate light, and form in constant amplitude playing with a numerical aperture that’s chemically formed,” he said.
Is he a person or a chatbot? This is utter nonsense. I can believe it contains terms related to their tech, but seriously?