a physics doctorate and photographer friend of mine pointed out a fun fact after reading the research paper published on this:
"The coolest part is that this guy's work is going to help enable corrections of all sorts of distortions and lens aberrations using software in place of traditional components (such as lens doublets and triplets to correct chromatic aberration or spherical aberration)...this means that larger aperture lenses may soon come in much smaller packages and be MUCH more affordable...
After all, the manufacturing cost of code is significantly less than optical glass....... just ctrl+v"
sadly, he also pointed out the original prototype was built on a digital medium format back, so im not exactly holding my breath over this. Definitely excited however