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Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by tscLegend » Wed, Sep 14, 2016, 4:54 PM UTC

morganvachon wrote: post #116

danso wrote: post #9

There'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…

> It looks a bit creepy. It's not just a bit creepy, it's firmly planted in the depths of the uncanny valley. The other (still photo) examples make me think they are pulling tricks with exposure and light balance, but the live photo feature is cheesy and gimmicky (and yes, highly unsettling in the example they give). I'm going to try it out on my iPhone 6, but I expect I'll stick with the iPhone camera app for seriou…

They just need to get rid of the creepiness by mirroring the loop, so its not a sudden reset

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by morganvachon » Wed, Sep 14, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

tscLegend wrote: post #201

morganvachon wrote: post #116

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> It looks a bit creepy. It's not just a bit creepy, it's firmly planted in the depths of the uncanny valley. The other (still photo) examples make me think they are pulling tricks with exposure and light balance, but the live photo feature is cheesy and gimmicky (and yes, highly unsettling in the example they give). I'm going to try it out on my iPhone 6, but I expect I'll stick with the iPhone camera app for seriou…

They just need to get rid of the creepiness by mirroring the loop, so its not a sudden reset

That's not what I found creepy. It's the perfectly still faces with the hair blowing and whipping around.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by samirm » Wed, Sep 14, 2016, 8:23 PM UTC

abrookewood wrote: post #131

blazespin wrote: post #128

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Cinemagraphs are all the rage now. Maybe it was intentional. Probably compresses much better.

I'm sure you're right on both accounts, but man, they are really creepy. I keep thinking I'm watching the trailer from a horror movie and something is going to jump out of the frame - or that I'm staring at a mannequin that should be still, but isn't. Very odd.

I don't find them creepy at all. Guess it's just a preference thing.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by soylentcola » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 8:08 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #198

soylentcola wrote: post #183

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As far as I can tell, the Google Camera app still has this option. Not sure about an iOS version but if they made one I wasn't aware of it. It was actually what I thought of when they mentioned similar functionality in the new iOS camera app.

It might have that option, but it is not available anymore (or I can't find it). This was different from the stock Camera app. If it replaced the stock app, then it's not available for devices that use different Camera app (namely Samsung).

Yeah, sorry. I was referring to the stock, standard "Camera" app I've always used. I even used it when I had a MotoX which included the "Moto Camera" app. I always preferred the plain Google one so that's the one I've used for the past several years.

Looking at the Play store on my old Nexus 5 I don't see it so maybe Moto just included both for some reason or maybe I installed it when it was still in the Play store but has since been discontinued in that incarnation.

This is the version that I have (newer one may need 7.0 according to the comments)

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/camera/camera-3-2-0...

Feel free to disregard if you don't trust apkmirror but they pull directly from Google's servers and validate signatures.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by the_watcher » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #156

the_watcher wrote: post #106

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Or, create apps for the platform used by 7x as many people before bothering creating them for the worst of them all.

Having developed for all major three mobile platforms, I would order them as Windows Phone, iOS, Android in what concerns developer tooling, with Windows Phone having the best experience. Sadly Microsoft management has shot themselves on both foots multiple times.

For development, perhaps. I am speaking about actual usage.