The first commercially available plenoptic camera was the Lytro, in 2012.

“Instant Egghead” reviewed light field camera basics in 2012.

VIDEO 2 min. 9 sec. Here is a not-so-scientific overview of computational photography produced under the auspices of Scientific American as an “Instant Egghead” video, as of July 10, 2012.

CNet demonstrated operation of the Lytro plenoptic camera in 2013.

VIDEO 2 min. 32 sec., “Lytro light field camera announced for UK”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Wi4g48VkI

At the time the CNet video, above, was made, in 2013, the Lytro camera interfaced only with the Macintosh computer. Since then, the Lytro camera has developed the software necessary to also work with Windows desktop software.

To see a TED talk by the founder of Lytro, please visit the next page.