[gumby]

I'm really surprised that LF cameras haven't been added to any phones. I'd think it would be valuable for "fixing" photos and perhaps allow computation to replace the LIDAR.

Though it feels like the cameras are in a "pro" or at least "prosumer" race. Every apple camera announcement seems to tout "advances" that are mostly irrelevant to me (who, like I assume most people, pretty much only uses the camera to take pictures of people and pets).

[kridsdale1]

The latest iPhones fake this in Cinematic filming mode. They use depth info and a long depth of field, then apply a distance based Gaussian blur to fake a shallow DOF in post. But you can go back and edit footage, selecting other subjects than what was “focused on” during filming.