Google’s Gemini AI Has New Photo-to-Video Feature

Google has launched a new feature within its Gemini AI assistant that allows users to convert photos into short video clips, expanding access to a tool previously limited to its standalone filmmaking platform, Flow. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-07-11 12:22

Google’s Top Secret Camera Lab Has a Fake Cafe for Testing the Pixel 8 Pro

Google has an elaborate photo set so it can test its Google Pixel camera in situations akin to the real world.

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2024-04-22 19:14

Google Maps Now Has 3D Immersive Views of Famous Landmarks

Google has been developing a 3D Immersive View feature for Google Maps that will provide a bird's-eye view of notable landmarks. The new feature is being rolled out to mobile users, on both Android and iOS platforms, and includes 3D images of nearly 100 famous landmarks around the world. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-07-27 23:07

Video: Google's Super Resolution algorithm explained in three minutes

Space constraints in the thin bodies of modern smartphones mean camera engineers are limited in terms of the size of image sensors they can use in their designs. Manufacturers have therefore been pushing computational imaging methods to improve the quality of their devices' image output. dpreview.com »

2019-05-29 21:04

Lytro is officially shutting down

Photo: Lytro Last week, industry sources told TechCrunch that Google would soon acquire light field camera maker Lytro for somewhere between $25 million and $40 million. And while Google's part in all this hasn't been confirmed, Lytro has now formally announced that it will be shutting down, and an anonymous source has shed more light on how Google is involved. dpreview.com »

2018-03-27 23:00

Google's Camera app has been unofficially ported to other Android phones

A developer going by the handle B-S-G has created an unofficial port of Google's Camera app, allowing a larger number of Android users to utilize the software with much-loved features like HDR+. dpreview.com »

2017-08-14 20:26

Google Adds Auto White Balance Feature To The Photos App Toolbox

Smartphone photography has gotten a little easier for Google fans as the Google Photos app has now introduced an auto white balance feature. The auto white balance can work in conjunction with the full Auto tool which at this point can take control of settings that include the exposure, saturation, and contrast of an image. digitalrev.com »

2017-03-07 03:00

Google brings RAISR smart image upsampling to Android devices

Google first showed off its RAISR technology, which uses machine learning to produce high-quality versions of low-resolution images, in November last year. Now the company has published a blog post to announce that RAISR has been implemented into Google+ for Android. dpreview.com »

2017-01-13 21:39

Google Pixel Has a Lens Flare Problem, Software Fix Coming

Google says its new Pixel smartphone has the best smartphone camera ever made, but it looks like the company still has some issues to work out. Pixel owners are reporting that the camera sometimes captures annoying lens flares in photos. petapixel.com »

2016-10-26 20:34