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Microsoft published a research paper about this technology before the Instagram app was released. I believe the Instagram app was a hack week project developed based on the MS research paper.

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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...

It was actually based on a previous app (Luma) that did the same thing for several years prior. Instagram acquired Luma back in 2013.

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