Google turns your Live Photos into GIFs

A new Google app for iOS will turn your shaky Live Photos shot into a looping gif with its new app. Motion Stills combines Live Photos with their own video stabilization technology and their auto-creating gif capabilities to bring you images with moving foreground and backgrounds that are frozen. Think cinemagraphs. Without going into the technical explanation of how their technology works, it’s like Google added a virtual tripod to reduce the shakiness and its algorithm separates the moving objects in the foreground from the background to create the movement. Another thing is it chooses an optimal loop point so it cuts off before any awkward moments after you’ve thought you’ve ended a video but it’s still recording. It does this photo magic on your phone so it won’t even need to be online. But, of course, if you want to share these on social media, you’ll need to be connected.

Source: Engadget