Lytro Enables Secret Wireless Feature in Its Cameras, Releases iPhone App

Lytro has announced that there is a secret wireless chips in its camera and has released a software update and iPhone app to enable the new functionality. The Lytro camera lets you take pictures first and focus later.

Pssst. We’re letting you in on a little secret. That Lytro camera you own has a little wireless chip inside. And, as of today, we are turning it on for the first time to give you a great new capability – wireless uploading and sharing!

Introducing the Lytro Mobile app. If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch device, you can now experience and share light field pictures on the go. The app communicates with your Lytro camera, whose wireless capabilities can be activated with a free software update, and lets you preview and upload pictures to Lytro.com using either a cellular or Wi-Fi network.


Share in the Moment, Wirelessly
The free Lytro Mobile App, combined with your Lytro camera’s Wi-Fi capabilities, makes it possible to share your living pictures directly to Lytro.com and Facebook from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The app also lets you explore and re-share existing living pictures to Twitter or Facebook and to save them as animated GIFs that you can email or SMS to your friends and family.

You can download Lytro from the App Store for free.

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