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I can see that its only available for apple devices, is there a technical hurdle in doing this for android?
If I had to guess, the diversity of Android hardware and operating system versions in the wild make delivering a quality experience more difficult compared to the narrower range of Apple devices and their generally higher specification of processors and cameras. And if I were to wildly speculate, Apple phone owners are a more desirable demographic to pursue over the long run.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
I was on vacation recently and used Pix all over---I got many great photos that were clearly better than what I would have gotten with the stock app (the built-in comparison feature is a great idea), even on landscapes where there weren't faces to focus on. Pix also managed to take a fantastic Live Image of my sister and me, which is really special because I don't get to see her very often. Thanks to you all for that…
On W10m live photos are just too large (10-15MB) to be sent to others.
am i the only one who thinks the iphone 6s images look better?
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…
For me the Live Photo version is more sharper than the Pix one and it has better exposure too.
We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png
On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hours to download...
Does it automatically take horizontal video when you are holding your camera vertically? When will we get that technology?
You could always have a square sensor, but then when shooting landscape pictures, you'd be throwing away a lot of the sensor data. In short, people generally want rectangular photos, and coupled with economics this means that sensors are that shape.
On the extreme end, I guess you could have some kind of rotating lens / sensor, which would automatically keep level.
We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
The linked landing page is nearly 40MB. What's the deal? http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hours to download...
It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. And it creates animations so it's useful to include samples of that, right? I like to moan about website sizes as well but here it's sort of justified.
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The Pix version looks like one of those old computer games when they wanted to animate some wind, but cut only afford to animate a handful of sprites on the screen. So everything is stiff as a board except for some flipping scarves/hair/etc...
I think you're referring to color cycling, and it's a much interesting technology than just a handful of sprites: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
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The original creates the perception of realness and dimension through the effect of wiggle stereoscopy.[1] Wiggle stereoscopy: http://i.imgur.com/FhA9aZI.gif In contrast, the Pix version removes that sense of depth, and turns it into what is essentially a cinemagraph.[2] Cinemagraph: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5659130034_7fc3dcfb8c_o.... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggle_stereoscopy [2] https://en.wik…
Cinemagraphs are all the rage now. Maybe it was intentional. Probably compresses much better.
