LG makes a 16-camera phone that can do crazy (and scary) things

Get out of here, quadcamera Samsung Galaxy A9 and Pentacamera Nokia 9 PureView, because LG is working on a new photographic trick: a camera with 16 lenses that can make really scary scenes and very cool thing.
Credit: Go to digitalDiscovered by A Dutch technology blog and a tireless patent researcher: Lets Go Digital, LG hexadeca matrix able to capture a scene from multiple points of view, with lenses and sensors placed at slightly different angles.

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According to LetsgodigitalYou can select the best photo angle after having taken.

You might also be able to exchange some of the image from another angle, using artificial intelligence to make the change transparent. In this example shown in the patent, you can move the head of a subject, but not the body.
Credit: Go to digitalBut things take a darker turn when you deepen this feature. Apparently, you will be able to perform a seamless face swap with another face from another photo taken at a different time. If it works as described, we are all headed to a scary world of consumer-made Deepfakes – the artificial intelligence technique that automatically switches people's faces in photos and videos.

On the positive side, the multi-angle configuration will provide a brilliant tip: the ability to create 3D photo loops similar to these:

Since you will be able to capture a scene from multiple angles at once, the camera software will be able to quickly read all the different photos in a ping-pong loop.

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The result will be a three-dimensional animated video or GIF, as shown above.

It's easy to imagine that people instinctively hell out of their world using this technique – including selfies, of course.

Apparently, this could be one of LG's intentions since the patent mentions that this 16-dot matrix camera will be ideal for selfies. Take a page from Nubia X, the patent describes the inclusion of a mirror or a full screen on the back of the phone.