The 12.2-megapixel rear camera has been improved, and the camera sensor is a “newer generation sensor,” though Reynolds conceded that it “has a lot of the same features.” The Pixel 3 also has a flicker sensor, which is supposed to mitigate the flicker effect you get when you’re shooting a photo or video under certain indoor lighting. A slider tool below the viewfinder lets you adjust how wide you want the shot to go. The front-facing camera now consists of two wide-angle, 12-megapixel camera lenses, better for wide-angle selfies. To be sure, some of the improvements to the Google Pixel 3 camera come from hardware upgrades. (Turns out, we’re not very good at standing still while taking photos.) For example, new features called Top Shot, Photobooth, Super Res Zoom, and Motion Auto Focus all use artificial intelligence and machine learning to either identify or compensate for all our human fallibility. The WIRED Guide to Artificial IntelligenceĮventually, the Pixel team narrowed down the list to include the camera features that were both technically possible and actually useful. How was it going to make this year’s phones exceptional? The cameras on last year’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones were widely acknowledged to be excellent cameras. Google may not sell nearly as many phones as its flagship competitors do, but it knows that if it’s going to compete at all in the high-end smartphone market, it has to have a killer camera. The new phones were expected (and had been leaked weeks beforehand), but since Google makes the vast majority of its revenue from digital advertising, any new hardware launch from the company piques a particular kind of interest. Now, it’s Google’s turn to boast about its AI-enhanced smartphone camera-and show how its software smarts and access to vast networks of data give it a leg up on the competition.Įarlier today Google announced its new Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones. When Apple launched the iPhone XS and XS Max last month, it talked a lot about how the new phone’s AI-specific neural processor enabled better photos, especially Portrait pics. When Samsung revealed the Galaxy Note 9 back in August, it showed off new AI-powered camera features, like flaw detection and a scene optimizer to tune the exposure and color of a shot before you’ve captured it.
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