# Lytro

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lytro/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lytro was a light-field (plenoptic) imaging company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng and based in Mountain View, California. It shipped the first consumer light-field cameras (the Lytro and the Lytro Illum), which captured the entire light field so images could be refocused after the fact, and later pivoted to professional light-field capture for cinema and VR with Lytro Cinema and Lytro Immerge. Backed by a16z, Greylock, NEA and Qualcomm Ventures, the company wound down in March 2018 with much of its technology and talent moving to Google. It is defunct and publishes no public developer program or API; the lytro.com domain now 301-redirects to an unrelated light-field vendor (raytrix.de).

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Camera, Photography, Light Field, Imaging, Computational Photography, Virtual Reality, Defunct

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