[Applause] >> SHENAZ: Before Pixel, very
few people outside Google and academic research had ever heard
the term "computational photography", much less applied
it to smartphone cameras.
With Pixel 7 and Google Tensor G2, we continue to lead in
computational photography, with a powerful set of features that
help you take accurate images for every skin tone, fix your
photos, film high-quality videos, and snap great pictures
from up close or far away.
Let's start with inclusivity.
It's absolutely critical that Pixel 7's improved photo quality
extends to everybody.
People with darker skin tones are rendered unnaturally when
photographed by most cameras.
So last year, we introduced Real Tone to make our camera and
image products work more equitably for people of color.
And we continue to partner with image experts, both in the U.S.
and around the world, to help evaluate our Pixel Camera and
make sure skin tones are represented beautifully and
accurately.
Over the past year, they've added more than 10,000 images to
The datasets used to tune Pixel's camera.
Through that work, we've tuned exposure and brightness to
better represent darker skin tones in low-light situations,
ensuring everyone looks great in those beautiful Night Sight
shots on Pixel 7.
We've also partnered with a community of BIPOC and
non-western photographers, editors and visual producers
from Diversify Photo to evaluate how we are delivering
improvements to Real Tone.
And with these updates, we're proud to say Pixel is still the
most inclusive camera.
Pixel 7 also improves the accessibility of Pixel's camera.
Finding that perfect angle for a selfie can be particularly
challenging for blind and low-vision users.
Pixel 7 can solve that, with our new Guided Frame.
Here it is in action.
>> SPEAKER 1: One face.
Move your phone slightly left and down.
Move your phone slightly right and up.
Ready for selfie.
Three, two, one.
Photo taken.
One face.
>> MOLLY BURKE: Oh, my God.
I love this.
>> SPEAKER 1: One face.
Selfie.
Move your phone right and up.
Ready for selfie.
>> MOLLY BURKE: Wait.
I want to get my light.
>> SPEAKER 1: One face.
Photo taken.
Selfie.
One face.
>> MOLLY BURKE: This is so cool.
My name is Molly Burke.
I am a social media content creator and motivational speaker
Who happens to be blind.
So often I find accessibility's focused on making sure disabled
people can do the bare minimum to get by.
It's important that accessibility not just focus on
designing things to make disabled people function, but
also empower them to have fun in life again.
>> LING WONG: I'm Ling Wong.
I'm one of the original creators of Guided Frame.
Guided Frame is a smart selfie feature that helps blind and
low-vision users to take a beautiful selfie.
>> SPEAKER 1: One.
Photo taken.
>> LING WONG: Selfie to me and to many blind users, I think is
a way they express themself.
>> MOLLY BURKE: For so long I couldn't take selfies because I
could never frame it correctly.
I would try to show a friend a New t-shirt that I got, and I'd
be like, "Look at how cute this top is."
And I'd text her a selfie, and she'd be like, yeah, I can't see
it at all.
>> LING WONG: In Google, we strive to make our technology
and product accessible for everyone to use.
So it's super important for us to develop a camera experience
that's inclusive.
>> SPEAKER 1: Three, two, one.
Photo taken.
>> LING WONG: We are constantly checking with our blind and
low-vision users because their feedback helps make our product
much better.
>> MOLLY BURKE: My mom is an incredible photographer, but I
don't want to always have to rely on my mom to take my
photos.
That's one of those basic, everyday things that gives you
that independence that we as disabled people crave.
>> SHENAZ: With the added --
[Applause].
With the added accessibility of Guided Frame,
and the inclusivity and accuracy of Real Tone, we're continuing
our ongoing mission to build a more equitable experience across
our camera.
Now, here's a problem that stretches back to the earliest
days of photography: Blurry photos.
It's very easy to blame the camera for a blurry shot, but
cameras have always struggled to get a clear photo, especially
when your kids won't hold still, or when there's not enough
light in the room at a party.
Pixel 7 and Tensor G2 can fix that.
So it's easier than ever to take crisper, sharper images, no
matter how challenging the scene might be.
For instance, with Tensor G2's new ML de-noiser, Night Sight is
now twice as fast, reducing unwanted motion blur and
producing beautiful low-light images with the same amount of
clarity.
Of course, we all know blurriness doesn't happen just at night.
Even during the day, if your hand or your kid is moving too
much, or your focus isn't perfect, you'll get blurry
images.
Pixel 7 fixes that by automatically fusing images from
the ultrawide and main cameras together to help ensure faces
are clear.
Tensor G2 goes even further, using a cutting-edge machine
learning approach to remove even more blur in even more photos,
so your images are incredibly sharp.
Now, most of us have a large collection of old photos, but
you might have taken them on a phone or camera that doesn't
quite match the quality of a Pixel phone.
And that's perfectly fine!
Because Pixel 7 can help fix those photos for you with a
brand new feature called Photo Unblur, which is only available
with Google Photos on Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.
Photo Unblur uses Tensor G2's machine learning capabilities to
remove blur and visual noise from entire images, so now with
just a few taps, you can relive the moment as clearly as you
remember it.
And you can touch up those old photos with Magic Eraser to
quickly and easily remove distractions.
So all your photos are as good as you want them to be, no
matter how old they are.
One of my colleagues has been using Pixel to make photos of
his children, which he has taken over the years, much better.
Let's take a look.
[Cheers and Applause].
>> SHENAZ: Now we are all capturing more and more of our lives through video.
Pixel 7 brings big improvements to the video camera, so you can
create stunning videos you'll want to share.
For example, we're introducing Cinematic Blur to the Pixel
camera.
With Tensor G2, Pixel 7 can generate very high-quality depth
information, at low power and low latency.
Cinematic Blur combines that depth information with high
image quality and high dynamic range.
So for the first time, you can shoot cinema-like videos with a
beautifully shallow depth-of-field.
Tensor G2 powers lots of other video improvements, too, like
new 10-bit HDR, so you can record brighter videos with
wider color ranges and higher contrast.
With 10-bit HDR, your videos look more like real life, and
utilize the full capabilities of Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro's
amazing displays.
We've even partnered with Snap, TikTok and YouTube, so your HDR
videos look vibrant when shared on your favorite apps.
And here's a challenge you've probably run into, getting those
smooth video shots without any fancy equipment.
With our highest quality video stabilization technology, Tensor
G2 brings together hardware and software to help you get
pro-looking videos that capture the moment and not your
movement.
The auto focus is better, too, so your subject stays in focus
while on the move.
Lastly, we're extending our Speech Enhancement and 4K60
frames per second across all Pixel 7 cameras, so you can be
heard clearly without the background noise and record the
moment in brilliant high resolution.
With Cinematic Blur, 10-bit HDR, video stabilization and
improvements to autofocus and speech enhancement, your videos
will look better, sound clearer and feel more professional,
anywhere you choose to post them.
Now let's move on to a common problem for smartphone
photography: Zoom.
And here's Alex to give you an up-close look at our zoom
technology.
[Applause]
[Applause].
>> ALEX: Pro photographers have different zoom lenses to make
small objects feel life-size, or faraway objects feel within
reach.
These are some of the last frontiers of smartphone
photography, where phones haven't been able to truly
replicate the quality of a DSLR.
Historically, packing professional-quality zoom into a
smartphone hasn't been possible.
It was a physics challenge of fitting large optics into just a
few millimeters of space.
Last year, with Pixel 6 Pro, we introduced a folded telephoto
camera that fits right in the Pixel Camera bar.
The result was stunning photos at 4x optical zoom.
But zoomed photos should look great at a range of distances,
not just at the telephoto's optical zoom.
You should be able to get a sharp photo at any
magnification.
With Google Tensor G2, Pixel 7 Pro pushes computational
photography to new heights with Pixel's pro-level zoom.
It cleverly combines state-of-the-art hardware,
software and machine learning to create amazing zoom photos
across any magnification.
This shot came from someone at our Tensor team who's not even a
professional photographer.
Obviously she didn't want to get too close to an apex predator.
And with Pixel 7 Pro, she got this beautiful, pro-level image
from a safe distance.
Pixel 7 Pro has the highest quality zoom on a Pixel ever,
across the entire zoom range.
It's like having the power of a DSLR and all the lenses you'd
ever need, but it's easy enough for everyone to use, and it fits
right in your pocket.
Let's get into how it works.
To start, we know photographers love taking photos at 2x,
because it's the most similar to their natural perspective.
Now, you could add another camera with a 2x telephoto lens,
but that means a bulkier phone.
Pixel 7 Pro can do better, increasing zoom magnification
without the added bulk.
Super Res Zoom has delivered amazing zoom photos since Pixel
3, and this year we've re-engineered it to go even
further, with higher-resolution images.
Our next-generation Super Res Zoom allows us to roughly double
the magnification of our optical lenses.
So starting at 2x, Super Res Zoom crops Pixel 7 Pro's main
50 megapixel camera, using a high resolution mode to provide
a 12.5 megapixel image.
It has more resolution than before, but the smaller pixels
are also noisier.
To fix those smaller and noisier pixels, it re-mosaics the image
into a traditional bayer format, so our imaging pipeline can
de-noise it, through HDR+ bracketing, which aligns
and merges a burst of frames, giving you high resolution and
low noise.
The result is a full 12.5 megapixel photo at 2x that looks
stunning, and similar to what you would get from a dedicated
2x telephoto camera.
And because both phones share the same large main sensor, you
can get this high-quality 2x shot on both Pixel 7 Pro and
Pixel 7.
Okay.
So what if you want to zoom in just a little more, but not all
the way to the optical zoom?
That's no problem with pro-level zoom.
Keep zooming on your Pixel 7 Pro, and Super Res Zoom takes a
photo from both the telephoto and the main camera.
Then a new ML model on Tensor G2 aligns and fuses these together
to create a composite that's as sharp as possible.
So you get great zoom quality, even between the two cameras.
As you keep pinching to zoom, Pixel 7 Pro's upgraded 5x
telephoto camera kicks in.
And Tensor G2 powers a new ML autofocus algorithm that ensures
your photos are sharp and detailed.
Now here's my favorite bit of tech.
Pinch to zoom in to 10x, and Super Res Zoom performs the same
process it does at 2x, to create a full 12MP photo that's similar
to a dedicated 10x telephoto camera.
So with Super Res Zoom on Pixel 7 Pro, you don't just get one
telephoto camera.
You get a 2x, a 5x and a 10x helping you capture amazing
photos across a variety of magnifications.
No DSLR or external lenses required.
As you zoom in even more, hand motion starts to become an
issue.
At 15x zoom, even small movements translate into jarring
changes in the viewfinder, and this can make composition really
hard.
Pixel 7 Pro's Zoom Stabilization keeps your camera steady when
zooming past 15x.
It identifies the subject in the viewfinder, then stabilizes the
camera on it, even if your hands are drifting or shaking.
That makes it easier to zoom in even further.
At 20x, pro-level zoom uses a new ML model on Tensor G2 that
upscales your photos to provide even more resolution.
So now you'll be able to take amazing, detailed photos all the
way up to 30x, the largest zoom magnification ever on a Pixel.
And it couldn't be easier.
Just pinch in the viewfinder, and your Pixel 7 Pro takes care
of the rest with the highest quality zoom at any range on a
Pixel.
But what if you want to get up close?
Like, really close.
Pixel 7 Pro's new ultrawide lens is 21 percent wider than Pixel
7's, and it now has autofocus, which powers our New Macro
Focus.
So now you can get vivid close-ups of objects as close as
three centimeters away, with Pixel's signature HDR+ quality.
Now, that's close enough to photograph rain drops,
individual flower petals, grains of pollen, and the most minute
details of what makes us, us, in full sharpness and vibrant
color.
It's a great way to make magnificent shots from the
everyday, showing that even the smallest details matter.
With the combination of Macro Focus and our next
generation Super Res Zoom, Pixel 7 Pro delivers gorgeous,
detailed photos at .5x, at 30x, and everywhere in between.
Back over to you, Brian.
[Applause].
>> BRIAN: So that's Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, the only phones
with Google Tensor G2, so they're the best phones for
photography, from sharpening your photos, to getting you in
closer, to letting you shoot cinema-quality video, and
accurately reflecting every shade of skin.
They're the best phones for calling, with Pixel Call Assist.
They're the best phones for voice assistance, with Live
Translate, and Assistant voice typing.
And they're our most secure and private phones yet, with Tensor
G2, Titan M2, the new VPN by Google One, and so many other
protections built in.
Pixel 7 is engineered to understand you and your world,
putting Google's personalized intelligence right in your hand.
Pixel 7 Pro is Google's most powerful phone.
It brings serious performance, and an upgraded telephoto lens,
with the highest quality zoom on a smartphone yet.
Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are the pinnacle of Pixel helpfulness,
and we're making them available to even more users in more
places.
They're available for pre-order starting today, and on-shelf
next week.
We want people to give Pixel 7 a try.
So while phones in this tier typically start at $799, we're
setting the starting price at just $599.
The Pixel 7 Pro starts at $899, much lower than other flagship
devices.
And we have some great offers from Google and our carrier
partners.
Here in the U.S., you can get a Pixel 7 Pro with up to $899 back
with an eligible trade-in.