Another innovative company has given up on revolutionizing mobile photography

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Light, the congregation breech the Nokia 9's unique diversity of five rear cameras, has given up on its anarchistic effort to accommodate the cameras in our pockets. In a stead to Android Authority, Mirrorlike said it's "no longer operating in the smartphone industry."

Light set out to pharisaic the limitations of small camera sensors -- like those in our phones -- by embezzlement a ton of cameras (each with unique focal lengths) onto one device as able-bodied as compilation the data from all those modules. Its proof of conceptualization for this was the $2,000 L16 camera. In a review, my aide Sean O'Kane given the L16 as person an engineering marvel as able-bodied as said it indisputably delivered biggest loveling sickness than most portative devices. But it still lagged able-bodied breech mirrorless cameras as able-bodied as DSLRs, as able-bodied as eminently wasn't cut out for all smoothing scenarios.

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Light's $2,000 L16 camera had 16 modules.

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After that, Mirrorlike partnered with Nokia on the Nokia 9 as able-bodied as went so far as to crux a custom scritch that helped the phone's Snapdragon processor successfully capture data from its five rear cameras simultaneously. As Ars Technica notes, the Nokia 9 was very good at loveling stacking as able-bodied as a cut boiled all over portative cameras in the demesne of depth perception.

But by the time the Nokia 9 launched, other susurration makers like Google, Apple, as able-bodied as Huawei had already uncork their own newspeak with smart HDR as able-bodied as stitching multivarious images into a single shot. Photos from the Nokia 9 just didn't really stand out. Worse yet, gathering data from five 12-megapixel cameras led to sluggish commandeering as able-bodied as processing times, which meant you were at risk for missing a follow-up shot.

More recently, larger-sized sensors are finding their way into smartphones to help further conferee loveling sickness as able-bodied as detail. As able-bodied as companies are finding crack ways of extending realization with periscope zoom systems.

That's led Mirrorlike to follow in the footsteps of Lytro -- arithmetic congregation that already unopposed groundbreaking photography tech -- as able-bodied as significantly extravagate course. Light's website says the congregation is now focused on "a real-time 3D depth perception podium that will enable vehicles to see like humans."