ImmerVision wants to revolutionize the way we take selfies

If you’ve ever taken a selfie, you know that the struggle to get a high-quality shot is real. It takes some level of skill to properly extend your arm, angle your smartphone and position the participants to achieve the desired end result: a fun photo that will get tons of likes on your social network of choice. What would make the art of taking a selfie easier to master? A tiny wide-angle lens, according to one company. ImmerVision, a lens manufacturer based in Montreal, recently announced a new 3.8-millimeter patented wide-angle panoramic lens designed to be integrated into smartphones and wearable devices. These tiny panomorph lenses enable shooters to capture distortion-free photos with a panoramic view (360 degrees x 182 degrees) without any need for fully extending your arm or taking multiple shots and waiting for your phone to stitch them together. “If Ellen DeGeneres had a phone with this technology, her famous Oscars selfie would have captured a much wider, clearer, and more natural shot — without any distortion or need to extend the mobile phone more than a few inches from her body,” according to Pascale Nini, president and CEO of ImmerVision. She adds that this type of lens can improve non-selfie forms of visual communications (e.g., video chats).