University of California, San Diego has participated in creating the lens for AWARE2 – an experimental camera that can take snapshots of one billion pixels each, which is a thousand times larger than ordinary cameras.
AWARE2 has 98 lipstick-sized cameras which individually focus on different portions of the device’s field of view. It then tacks the images together to create one super high-definition picture. Emphasis on the software side was done by the team of researchers, rather than …