Just in case you have forgotten, a couple of days back we reported that Google has actively enabled the “dormant” Pixel Visual Core processor through an OTA update which intends to enhance the quality of already exemplary images shot on the Second generation Pixel devices.
Now, after the buzz we have come to know that after all the Google camera app is not taking any advantage of the processor.
Google has told Ars Technica‘s Ron Amadeo that their Camera app in the Pixel 2 and 2 XL doesn’t use the Pixel Visual Core chip. Well, it means that Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat are the first apps ever to make use of the Visual Core chip on the second-gen Pixel smartphones.
I got a fun correction from Google today: The Google Camera app does not use the Pixel Visual Core. Google's camera app doesn't use Google's camera chip. Facebook and Snapchat are the first ever uses of it.
— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) February 7, 2018
The Google camera app on the Pixel devices instead uses the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) of the Snapdragon 835 SoC and manages to get the best out of the lens with complex algorithms.
Well, either way, the Pixel Visual Core is used to bring HDR+ tech to third-party apps, and, as the Google Camera app in second-gen Pixel smartphones already has that, it kind of makes sense to not use the Visual Core chip. But, you never know if Google decides to resort to Visual Core for faster HDR+ processing in the Google Camera app in the future. However, that seems very unlikely as of now.
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