I wonder if there is a plan for an Android version. I'd love to play with this.
An Android version is development. We can't comment on release date, but we're working on it.
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am imagining a developer at Microsoft somewhere holding their head in their hands when they saw the Live Photo comparison made by the marketing team. To me, they don't really seem to be aiming for the same thing at all - the Pix version is a highly stylised animation whereas the Live Photo is simply a very short, silent video.
I know the Live Photo example on this Pix page is silent, but it's important for people to realize that Apple Live Photos are not -- they capture several seconds of sound. I "know" this but often forget. When I look through iMessage history at pictures I've sent and received, there are often stray bits of overheard conversation that the sender wouldn't necessarily want or intend to include.
It wasn't silent for me, I could hear the wind.
Re: Microsoft Pix
#83I'm amazed how low-quality this MS landing page is. - The "How it works" tab is just a huge image. - The search box ( top right ) has some problems with the border. Both in Chrome & Safari. - It uses `font-family: 'Segoe UI';`, which makes all elements with that font on my Mac "serif"
The worst part is some certified microsoft vendor probably charged $60,000 for it.
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#84Apple Camera picture and video quality looks more real than Microsoft's. It seems like this app artificially list up the image.
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#85There's an interesting example they use to show the ostensible improvement of Pix over the Apple's Live Photo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... The Pix-enhanced version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Sure, the Live Photo version has distracting movement, but it also has much more natural motion in terms of hair flow. And I feel that the camera instabili…
Easy pick: the Apple version is natural, the Microsoft one is artificial. Maybe some cultural thing and Americans like the unnatural steady shot, I'm from the old continent and am completely distracted by the unnatural look of the Microsoft version. Microsoft research came up with http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype... and it was great. But Microsoft Pix, not for me.
This has nothing to do with Americans and more of a personal preference.
Re: Microsoft Pix
#86We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
Can you make better windows phones please. Please create better apps for your platform before running towards iOS.
Re: Microsoft Pix
#87There's an interesting example they use to show the ostensible improvement of Pix over the Apple's Live Photo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... The Pix-enhanced version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Sure, the Live Photo version has distracting movement, but it also has much more natural motion in terms of hair flow. And I feel that the camera instabili…
Yea, it's interesting tech but it plain doesn't work right. It looks like a "cinemagraph generator" (like it was first popularized with this blog: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ ). Only it does the (IMO rather tacky or at least very stylized) version of it that makes people look "frozen in time" instead of trying to loop natural motion. It looks like a filter/effect rather than, well,... an enhanced video. Not better but different.
IMO this is one of those things Apple tends to "get". Did they have comparable tech to Pix somewhere cooked up in their labs? I dare to bet so. Did they use it as a suggestion for a "default" enhancement mode? Nope. That thing is a gimmick and seems more appropriate for a third party app.
The auto-adjust for faces looks nice but don't most cameras have that for years, now?
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#88Does anyone else think of Harry Potter when looking at the last section, Live Image/Live Photo?
It reminded me of the Google Motion Stills app. I had it for a few weeks but uninstalled it as I didn't use it much.
The latest version of Google Photos (2.0) builds in the Motion Stills functionality:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-photos-free-photo-vid...
Re: Microsoft Pix
#89We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
First of all I want to just say that I think it's great to see MS isn't giving up and keeping to try and reinvent yourself. Sooner or later you are going to get something really big right.
Second of all. I think there is something wrong with the top animation, it's very janky.
Re: Microsoft Pix
#90There's an interesting example they use to show the ostensible improvement of Pix over the Apple's Live Photo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... The Pix-enhanced version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Sure, the Live Photo version has distracting movement, but it also has much more natural motion in terms of hair flow. And I feel that the camera instabili…
Id love to know the image proc algorithms they used here.