Omni-Focus Video Camera Can Focus Near and Far at the Same Time

[Septimus Prime]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...g-image-depths

The Omni-Focus Video Camera is based on a novel distance-mapping principle that allows the camera to capture both near- and far-field images in real-time, high-resolution focus. It does so by employing an array of color video cameras, all focused at different distances. The Divergence-ratio Axi-vision Camera -- the key component in the new video rig -- then maps each pixel in space. Software then stitches a composite image together using the most focused pixels at each distance, creating omni-focused video in real time.

I can't even imagine what movies will look like without depth of field. I wonder, though, if this is going to screw with our eyes, which can't omni-focus.