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by PaulHoule 702 days ago
In the early 2000s I was thinking about a machine vision camera that would use a mirror and a small lens to image a whole room, as seen from a corner. I figured it would take about 50 megapixels to get the performance I wanted and at that time 5 megapixels seemed like a lot.

Today now that is no problem. A few years ago I saw this

https://owllabs.com/products/meeting-owl-3

at work, the fisheye lens on it is more compact than what I had in mind and it has enough pixels to pick out individuals speaking in a conference room.