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Lytro is building the worlds most powerful Light Field imaging platform enabling artists, scientists and innovators to pursue their goals with unprecedented levels of freedom and flexibility. With the announcement of Lytro Immerge, the world's first Light Field solution for Virtual Reality (VR), in late 2015 and followed by the 2016 launch of Lytro Cinema, the world's first Light Field capture system for cinematic content, Lytro is firmly at the forefront of the generational shift from legacy 2D imaging to 3D volumetric Light Field video. Lytro was founded in 2006 by Executive Chairman Ren Ng, whose Ph.D. research on Light Field imaging won Stanford Universitys prize for best thesis in computer science. In 2012, Lytro released its first generation imaging platform followed by the second-generation imaging platform was released featuring the Lytro ILLUM, Lytro Desktop, Lytro iOS Mobile Application and the Lytro Development Kit in 2014. Lytro announced its expansion into virtual reality in 2015 with Lytro Immerge. It is the worlds first professional Light Field powered solution to provide lifelike presence in VR with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF), addressing the challenges of live action immersive storytelling. Built from the ground up to seamlessly blend live action and computer graphics (CG), Lytro Immerge sets a new bar for the production of cinematic VR content. In 2016, Lytro launched the world's first Light Field solution for cinema. Lytro Cinema is a breakthrough capture system enables the complete virtualization of the live action camera -- transforming creative camera controls from fixed on set decisions to computational post-production processes -- and allows for historically impossible shots. Based in Mountain View, CA, Lytro is backed by top-tier VCs including Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock Partners and NEA and has built a world-class team and dynamic culture centered on innovation and collaboration.