This week at the City of Science and Industry event, Nikon presented some of their concept camera technology including the unusual item above called (according to Google Translate) the “Multi-Ball”.
Multi-ball is an object “multi-views that can capture the atmosphere of a scene.”One wonders what kind of pictures can come out well!
That doesn’t really explain much, but I have to wonder if this may be a possible commercially-available Plenoptic Lens. Adobe’s been working on software for plenoptic lens for a while now, and it only makes sense that the would partner with a premiere camera maker to implement it.
here are showed some historical protype from the past