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Google's Night Sight Feature Arrives For Pixel Phones (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the groundbreaking-developments dept.

Google on Wednesday started to roll out 'Night Sight', a much anticipated-feature to the Pixel smartphones that is designed to help users capture better photos in low-light conditions. From a report: Night Sight made a premature debut in October courtesy of a leaked app, but today marks the start of its official rollout. Beginning this week, Night Sight will come not only to the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, but to the Pixel 2 and original Pixel. And judging by our preliminary testing, it was well worth the wait. Further reading: Google gives the Pixel camera superhuman night vision

26 comments

  1. Honest AC Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I create and use a Slashdot account, can I filter out the ads posted by M'Smash?

    1. Re: Honest AC Question by TimMD909 · · Score: 2

      No. You must suffer like the rest of us.

    2. Re: Honest AC Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, but you can get mod points and use them to mod up trolls

    3. Re:Honest AC Question by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      You can. Simply go to your settings, then "exclusions" and tick the box next to msmash.

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  2. Great! by TimMD909 · · Score: 0

    I've spent years working on a robot that can find a black cat in a pitch black room, and then annoy the piss out of them. Instead of all that work, I can just use my phone now. Progress! (p.s. The project is called CATPOO - cat antagonizing tactical platform of oppression)

    1. Re:Great! by msauve · · Score: 1

      "I've spent years working on a robot that can find a black cat in a pitch black room, and then annoy the piss out of them."

      Sorry to inform, but someone beat you to it. It's called a Roomba.

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  3. Night sight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Night sight? Why don't they just rename it form Google 'Pixel' to Google 'Pervert' or Google 'Stalker'?

    1. Re: Night sight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why doesn't slashdot just rename it from anonymous coward to anonymous moron?

    2. Re: Night sight? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Don't be a moran.

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  4. Re:Great by mikael · · Score: 1

    I once used my smartphone to make a video of a dry thunderstorm while it was directly above my house (the lighting was cloud-to-cloud). With the regular camera video, it would only capture the brightest flashes inside the clouds, but take the mp4 video file onto a PC, run some ImageMagick to boost the contrast and reconstruct the video, and all the other lightning flashes would appear.

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  5. Miracles of nature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Have you ever had to take a dump, and then you sit down and then in the blink of an eye something slides out. It's over before you know it.

    BUT THEN . . . you look into the bowl, and there is this monster eel of a bowel movement curled and snaked around the bowl. It's not hard and constipated but slick and smooth and slippery. It's all of 20 inches long or more. It slithered out of your sphincter so fast you almost think that is was alive. It may or may not have a strong odor but you wouldn't know way because the speed of its swift evacuation still has you standing there with your pants down, and your face slack-jawed in amazement.

    The wonders of nature are many, and this is one unexplored area of science which is still open to pioneers in the field of bowel movement research. This is one area of science where a dedicated amateur can advance the art and contribute to human knowledge and understanding. Won't you join us in this quest?

    1. Re:Miracles of nature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't stop, I'm almost there!

    2. Re:Miracles of nature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your mom.

  6. Just in time to help Taliban by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 0
    The night vision goggles of the American forces was such a huge advantage, almost all the night time sniping and attacks were thwarted. And our forces could move with impunity at night because the enemy can not see them.

    So there was a real danger the war could end and the military industrial racket could lose billions of dollars. Now we can put all those fears to rest, and invest in all the defense companies. These phones will be a big hit in Afghanistan. Now the playing field is leveled and the insurgents and the enemy can drag out the war.

    I can hear champagne corks popping all over wall street and investment houses. Great job guys. Next time do it earlier, dont drag it out till the last moment.

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    1. Re:Just in time to help Taliban by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Brilliant move - now the Taliban will be stopping regularly to take Night Mode pictures, presenting a perfect target for snipers with real night-vision goggles.

      Even better, the pictures will sync up to Google Photos along with their GPS coord metadata, get siphoned via PRISM, and the targets plotted in real-time on a convenient tactical map.

  7. Forget smartphones by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

    I want to see that technology integrated directly into car windshields.

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    1. Re:Forget smartphones by jaa101 · · Score: 1

      The key trick they’re using is exposure stacking, i.e., aligning and adding together a sequence of images. While you could use this to achieve night vision, the price would be lag of a substantial fraction of a second, to collect the required number of images. Not what you want while driving. Worse, I bet the system will fail with fast-changing scenes because it won’t be able to align consecutive images. So there could be a market for a night vision device based on this approach, but it’s going to have to be plastered with warning stickers about not using it for things like driving where reaction time is critical for safety.

  8. Remember the Sony night-shot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So this is not a repeat of this?

    https://fossbytes.com/sony-accidentally-launched-camcorders-see-peoples-clothes/

  9. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME YOU CHIMP - this comes out every time, lol!... apk

  10. It works! by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    I have an Essential. It's amazing how it pulls a decent photo out an almost black scene.