I read the articles and played with the loaded images.  The technology is amazing.  But at this point it is just a novelty to insure a focused shot and the results are apparent only on those compositions that have prominent foreground and background subjects.

I see a definite niche as a security camera.   Those applications would insure focused images no matter the distance from the camera.  Imagine it in an interior setting with relatively low light snapping focused images of everything in its field of view every few seconds. Awesome.