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Behind the Motion Photos Technology in Pixel 2

by PleaseHelpMe on 3/14/18, 1:42 PM with 10 comments

  • by veritas3241 on 3/14/18, 4:43 PM

    I love learning and reading about the technology behind some of my favorite features. Motion Photos (and Apple's version as well) has been one of the biggest "I didn't know I wanted this" features on modern smartphones for me.

    I've taken a lot of pictures of my dogs over the years but the pure joy I had when one of the first photos I took with my new phone turned into a looping 1 second video was surprising to me. I'm really looking forward to this summer when I get to take too many photos of my new kid.

    Now if only I could directly upload these to Instagram without having to manually loop them...

  • by knodi123 on 3/14/18, 5:58 PM

    One thing I want to ask google is, why can't I browse through my previously-taken motion photos when I'm in a dead cell zone?

    I went to the aquarium this weekend, took a lot of motion photos- but when scrolling through them in the gift shop, the "motion on" button just turned into an eternal loading icon. Even on photos I had taken the previous week.

  • by dharma1 on 3/14/18, 5:26 PM

    Google's computational photo/video expertise is so far ahead of any traditional camera manufacturer..

    I wish they would release a prosumer Android camera with a 1"+ sensor, perhaps m43 mount, 10bit video and large bitrates - with all of their computational photo goodies.

  • by saagarjha on 3/14/18, 9:09 PM

    This looks really similar to Apple's Live Photos with a bit of video stabilization.