The company released a trio of free photo apps on Monday. Created as experiments by different Google (GOOG) departments, the simple mobile apps include a photo booth with pose-detecting powers, a way to remix videos like a DJ, and a tool for turning any mundane adventure into a comic book panel.
The company is calling the free downloads Appsperiments, a clunky portmanteau of "apps" and "experiments." The tools offer a peek into the future of smartphone photography, which will increasingly rely on effects created by software.
An early example is the Google Pixel 2 portrait mode, which uses software to fake a shallow depth-of-field effect.
"The next generation of cameras ... will have the capability to blend hardware and computer vision algorithms," said Alex Kauffmann, an interaction researcher at Google Research, in a blog post.
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