Google’s HDR+ mode has been part of Google Camera for a few years, but the Google Pixel 2 refines that program by expanding processing power. HDR is a photo technique that blends multiple images ...

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are both equipped a custom-designed co-processor that enables advanced image processing and machine learning capabilities. Called "Pixel Visual Core," this is one of the ...

When Google launched its Pixel 2 flagship smartphone last year, it included something of a surprise: A co-processor called Pixel Visual Core, the company’s first homegrown, consumer-facing piece of ...

Google is able to take such fantastic photos on the Pixel 2 because of a fine-tuned mix of physical hardware (camera lens and sensor), software (enabling HDR+), and machine learning. Even in its ...

Google’s very first in-house chipset, Pixel Visual Core, is finally enabled with the February 2018 Android security patch. Pixel Visual Core is designed to compile HDR+ images five times faster than ...

Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until after the Pixel 2’s announcement to talk up the system-on-a-chip ...

Sadly, not all of the Pixel 2’s surprises have been the good sort since Google’s latest flagship launched. Visual Core is one of the more pleasant ones, though — a custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) that’s ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. According to a source of 9to5, the new Pixel phones will feature an updated Visual Core chip, which is ...

Google’s Pixel Visual Core, the hidden image-processing chip inside the Pixel 2 family of phones, is getting activated via a software update today. The Visual Core’s main purpose is to bring the HDR+ ...

Following the release of the second developer preview of Android 8.1 Oreo, owners of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL can finally enable the Pixel Visual Core, a custom system-on-chip Google developed in ...