With the launch of the Pixel 7 smartphones, Google Photos introduced the Photo Unblur tool, which uses a neural network to sharpen images. For now, this feature remains exclusive to the latest Google smartphones. Pixel 8 devices will hit the market in the second half of this year, but already now enthusiasts have found mention of a new video sharpening feature, which is likely to become available to owners of these devices.
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We are talking about a tool called Video Unblur in Google Photos. From the name it is not difficult to guess that it can be used to make blurry videos clearer. This feature has not been officially announced, but enthusiasts have managed to force-activate its user interface, although at this stage the effect of Video Unblur is almost imperceptible. It is expected that by the time the work on this feature is completed, it will be able to significantly improve the quality of previously filmed videos through the use of a special AI algorithm. And while there is currently nothing in the code linking Video Unblur to Pixel 8 smartphones, we can assume that it is in these devices that the new feature will debut.
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In addition to this, the developers plan to add a set of effects to Google Photos that can be applied to videos. They will be collected in a separate UI tab called Overlays. At this stage, references to effects and the possibility of improving the quality of blurry videos have been found in the Google Photos code, but the developers have not officially announced these changes. This means that by the time of the official launch, they can be significantly reworked.
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