GoPro releases new 360º VR app for Android and iOS smartphones
Apr 20, 2016
Gannon Burgett
GoPro has released GoPro VR, a new 360-degree video and virtual reality app designed to usher in the next era of action camera imagery.
GoPro and Google officially launch Omni, their smaller, cheaper 6-camera VR rig
Apr 7, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Last September, Google teamed up with GoPro to launch its 16-camera VR device, Odyssey. At $15,000, it was far from a consumer-grade device and even…
Google is giving away Nik Software’s entire desktop collection away for free
Mar 24, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Nik Software, now owned by Google, has announced today that their entire Nik Collection is available for free, to everyone.
The end of a long-forgotten era: Google is officially killing off Picasa
Feb 12, 2016
Gannon Burgett
It’s official. Today, Google has officially announced their plan to retire Picasa, an online image editing program that was the foundation upon which many of…
YouTube partners with GoPro for VR content, hopes to support HDR video ‘soon’
Jan 9, 2016
Gannon Burgett
It looks like YouTube is getting extremely interested in up-and-coming video formats, including virtual reality (VR) and high dynamic range (HDR).
RAW Editing Comes to Snapseed for Android
Oct 29, 2015
Liron Samuels
The popular photo-editing app, owned by Google, launched version 2.1 and is now capable of editing RAW files. “Traditionally, shooting and editing RAW photos has…
This cheat sheet shows every single profile photo size for every social media platform
Oct 21, 2015
Anna Gunn
Social media platforms seem to change their image sizes pretty much every time you login. And every time that happens, photographers everywhere have to scour…
Google Wants To Begin Integrating Your Food Photography Into Google Maps
Aug 24, 2015
Tiffany Mueller
Last week we reported on new laws in Germany which could make photographing your meal from certain dining establishments a breech of the chef’s copyright….
Google & MIT’s New Algorithm Uses Edge Detection To Remove Reflections From Photos
Aug 5, 2015
Tiffany Mueller
A team of researchers from MIT (Tianfan Xue, Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu and William T. Freeman) are teaming up with Google with to present a…
Google Finally Caving In To Vertical Video
Jul 24, 2015
Udi Tirosh
You know we are not big fans of vertical videos, and up until lately, google were not a big fan of this either, noting camera users…