Fly’s eye camera a.k.a. panoptic camera

By PR admin | Published: December 3, 2010

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland created a panoptic camera that resembles a fly's eye - it has 100 cameras and the combined image is rendered on a computer providing a 360° view in 3D. The camera is also able to measure the distance to an objects and can potentially be used in the car, movies and video games industries:

Via Gizmodo

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