Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.