As seen in Science Daily: World's First Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision
Reporting on this paper in Nature Nature: Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

Here we report 2–3-cm paired eyes from the early Cambrian (approximately 515 million years old) Emu Bay Shale of South Australia, assigned to the Cambrian apex predator Anomalocaris. Their preserved visual surfaces are composed of at least 16,000 hexagonally packed ommatidial lenses (in a single eye), rivalling the most acute compound eyes in modern arthropods.

Might this spark some discussion over the importance of eyes to the Cambrian explosion?

Interesting paper. But as far as Parker goes: I don´t think anybody doubts that the evolution of advanced vision played a part in the CE and of course finding structural color preserved was damn cool, but it doesn´t explain everything there is to explain (it doesn´t explain the timing and the duration of the CE, though it does contribute to explaining its uniqueness).

Thanks for your contribution in confirmation of the contribution of the evolution of eyes to the explanation of the Cambrian explosion susu.
These were also my thoughts on the subject.

Better visual processing [presumably competant eyes would imply also competent visual processing] would set up an arms race between predators and also put great pressure on prey. Prey response to predation is of course varied, but armour is expected to be preserved in fossils more than other strategies. So suddenly, it didn't pay to be soft-bodied, unless there were some other defences, like poisons, speed, camoflage etc, all of which does not preserve well.
Of course, all of this is speculation rather than explanation, but I don't think it falsfies Parker's ideas. [Nor does it confirm them]. Simply too little information is left to be anything other than agnostic about the causes of the CE, although I think that innovations in Hox just got to the stage where a burst of innovation in bauplans was possible.

Hard parts, eyes, and the evolution of novel evolvable body plans all due to innovations in Hox genes. Sounds good to me.

Was very impressed by this book - a very elegant 'explanation' for the radical shift in evolutionary diversity.