Finished reading the article José posted, very good analysis.
As I wrote earlier, I think the developement team behind this didn't mean the currently offered Lytro camera as the ultimate device, but they need to get funds somehow to continue their work and at the same time they need to show "we can do it". The marketing department of course uses all the weapons to persuade others this is revolution, which is quite common concept in tech business I am afraid.
From my side, I didn't have my expectations high when the first rumours about the device appeared, especially once they declared clearly that the first piece coming out of the factory is more targeted at "facebook people", which want to take photos and present them in entertaining way (which interactive refocusing applet is). But in my opinion this targeting makes sense from busines point of view, because simple control has bigger potential to attract wider audience = more funds for further developement, manufactoring, ...
As a first step in new direction, and with the price not that extremely high for new concept... I still consider it solid attempt from what I have read.
Seeing the device "live" would be best to make an opinion about usability of course.
Seeing the target group, absence of manual control... I think it is not meant (yet) for more advanced/technical users, so it is a bit hard to directly compare it to advanced compact or even mirror cameras.
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