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Photo sharing and viewing is undergoing a revolution. Facebook’s plan to buy Instagram developer Burbn for $1 billion in stock and cash underscores how valuable sharing has become. Simplicity and speed are what make Instagram attractive to users, with 30 million downloads for iPhones at the time of Facebook’s announcement, followed by an Android version that garnered another 5-10 million downloads from Google’s Play Store in 10 days.

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  1. You can play with Lytro pictures [http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/ here]. If you want to read more about the technology, read founder and CEO Ren Ng’s [https://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf dissertation].
    Another feature of the camera is 3D. If you have a 3D display or 3D glasses, [http://blog.lytro.com/news/it-gets-better-lytro-3d-demo/ check out this demonstration].

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