Steve Jobs Met With Lytro CEO Ren Ng to Discuss Camera Technology

In his final months, Steve Jobs met with Lytro CEO Ren Ng to discuss the company's camera technology, according to the Inside Apple book by Adam Lashinsky.

9to5Mac relays a quote from the book that recounts what happened after Ng heard Jobs was interested in meeting him.

The company's CEO, Ren Ng, a brilliant computer scientist with a PhD from Stanford, immediately called Jobs, who picked up the phone and quickly said, "if you're free this afternoon maybe we would could get together." Ng, who is thirty-two, hurried to Palo Alto, showed Jobs a demo of Lytro's technology, discussed cameras and product design with him, and, at Jobs's request, agreed to send him an email outlining three things he'd like Lytro to do with Apple.


Lytro's camera is able to capture the Light Field, the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space. This allows both the picture taker and the viewer to focus pictures after they're snapped, shift their perspective of the scene, and even switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D views.

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