Metalenses are a relatively fringe optical technology — at least, they were. Until now, it has been largely pursued by startups and scientists but that is changing as Canon has jumped into the fray and not only makes them but also produces the equipment necessary to manufacture them.
They’ll do anything to avoid giving us a slightly thicker battery…
Right? Why not increase battery thickness, then no more camera bump!
Reviewers then write “it’s got great battery life, but it’s so bulky” and take a star off. It’s possible nobody actually cares, or that most people think extra battery life is worth the bulkiness. But that’s what reviewers will write, and it will affect sales.
See also: laptop bezels. Reviewers say you’re supposed to want the thinnest one possible. Problem is, web cams tend to be better if they can be bigger, and there isn’t enough room in those thin bezels for a good one. Thus, your laptop web cam looks substantially worse than your smartphone.
Reviewers need to think harder about what they emphasize.
It’s so weird what reviewers will focus on. The tiny bezel thing is terrible, for phones and laptops.
I need to be able to hold my phone - without bezels I’m constantly touching the wrong part of the screen.
And you already covered the laptop webcam. OK, fine, make the side and bottom bezels smaller, but leave the top one for… Wifi antennas and webcam?
Fuck smartphones, I wanna finally have glasses that are thin, light, and without distortions, reflections, or chromatic aberration
And have a bigger sweet spot.
Same for VR headset optics.
Is this currently limited by lens diameter? It seems it would be - so huge glasses would be more forgiving in this sense?
Mainly it’s number of lenses.
High quality camera lenses have like 10-20 lenses, while glasses have … 1
Sir, that’s called a monocle.
And I want a pony.
Okay Mr. Hands.
I’d take a thicker battery any day of the week.