Motion Stills by Google - Turn live photos into cinematic, beautiful GIFs

@andrew_kary Because is uses Apple's Live Photos

@andrew_kary does Android record *live* photos?

@rhodesnathan Soon, I hope.

@triptych @andrew_kary Sure. Samsung has had it an option in their camera app for years. It is done a bit differently though and is called animated photos.

@rhodesnathan @andrew_kary Nexus6p has smart burst mode in camera which creates GIF effects. http://www.computerworld.com/art...

@gabriel__lewis @ow somewhere, in the cosmos, my father is smiling. When he was the head of the photo lab at NASA, he taught the astronauts how to shoot photos in the weightless environment (which has its own challenges). ☺️

@rrhoover so let me get this straight, your job is commenting on cool shit errrday? Dang I'm jealous.

@rrhoover I'm already here everyday, can I get paid? jkkkk :P

@daniel_taibleson 😁😁😁

@rrhoover stabilization of Hyperlapse and animation of Boomerang.

@chrismessina How so? This feature is wholly independent of Photos turning bursts into GIFs. Different input, optionally different output.

@chrismessina how is this a piece of Google+? Live photos already move. Google Photos did pull the automagic giffery along with the rest of Google+ Photos but that's old news.

@mattahorton I think you just answered your question. Google+ had Auto Awesome Movies back in 2013. Not identical, but I bet it's built on a related stack of photo technologies. An update in 2014 allowed you to create animated GIFs and photobooth-style images on demand .

@chrismessina My point was that that exists in Google Photos (note the removed +) already.

@orliesaurus Android doesn't take live photos

@mattahorton yeah why don't the give us live photos + GIFs all at once!!!??

@orliesaurus because live photos are an apple branded thing. If Android got live photos they'd be a completely different spec and wouldn't work on iOS as Apple doesn't disclose how they work.

@mattahorton @orliesaurus Not quite. Google Photos supports live photos, as do a few social media networks. In reality, it's video footage before and after any image. Incredibly simple to pull off.

@mattahorton @orliesaurus haha funny. they are on the samsung s7. with better lighting.

@virgilemison - stablilization software is easy. Apple has had it for years. Instagram has had it for years. This is just another random app Google made that they will probably abandon in a few years. Also, iOS makes just as much if not more money for Google than Android.

@pojda Gboard was also.

@joe_blau @pojda Yeah this sucks. Cater to your own people Alphabet.

@ninjinka @joe_blau @pojda It's called customer acquisition.

@joe_blau @pojda There's a Gboard-like feature on Google Now on Android.

@diegozaks @joe_blau @pojda If you mean bringing them over to Android, it's not customer acquisition because they are offering an iPhone exclusive. Why would they switch?