Elevating Android Videography: The Rise of Eyes Free in Android 15

The technology that smartphones run on is ever changing but recently a feature to allow the phone to perform much better as a video recorder was discovered. Android 15 is being developed and due for release next year (20221), where the cameras on Android phones will finally be on par with the iPhone and make them really good video recorders. In fact, you don’t even have to rely on the camera built into a phone app, you could use another third-party app. Google has a new feature code named 'Eyes Free' that will use the sensors in the phone to compensate for the movement of your hands and allow better video stabilisation instead of the slight shake that smartphones utilise at the moment.

Android 15: A Game-Changer for Videography?

The Dawn of Eyes Free

Recently, in a post, Android Authority’s online code-diver, Mishaal Rahman, revealed that Android 15 could bring a new feature called 'Eyes Free' to the Camera2 API of Android – the API that allows native apps and all third-party apps such as Snapchat and Instagram to fully access the mobile phone’s camera and capture video. But why is this so important?

Leveling the Playing Field

Bringing Eyes Free into the Android world will borrow some of the most advanced video stabilisation features previously reserved for select Android flagships, such as the Google Pixel 8 Pro, new tech revealed at Google I/O could soon create a similar pipeline in video-focused third-party apps, unlocking the full power of the camera and recording options in third-party apps without sacrificing quality. Up to this point, end users pursuing the highest-quality footage possible would have been forced to record video in the native camera app, and then upload to third-party apps, which used to be the only option for a seamless experience. That’s about to change.

Bridging the Gap with iPhones

iPhones have long been the gold standard for smartphone videography, because of their image quality and usability. But Eyes Free for Android signals a closing of the gap as Android phones will exceed 'native' performance on key dimensions of video capture (provided Google goes as far as Apple seems ready to). More importantly, too, Android phone makers will guarantee roughly comparable video capture capability for their users as they have on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, via third-party apps.

The Implications of Android 15's Eyes Free

A New Era for Content Creators

Eyes Free is the next evolution in being able to create content directly on a smartphone – with better video stabilisation, and access to camera extensions like auto-detect bokeh, Face retouch, HDR and Night Mode via third-party apps. This will be great for professionals or amateurs who use their phones for videography, or anyone who engages with an audience through visual content on social media.

The Competitive Landscape

Once Android phones start offering a comparable, if not superior, videography experience to iPhones, all it will take is for a certain subset of potential buyers to care about the difference between videography on iPhones and videography on Android phones. And if Eyes Free, once it becomes available on many or most Android 15 phones, gets used heavily enough, the barriers to buyers switching might just decrease enough that people no longer would be using iOS as a proxy for videography-related smartphone user acquisition. Android phones could start playing more substantively along with iPhones in the videography innovation arena.

Conclusion

Despite being relatively small, the Eyes Free feature in Android 15 is one of the clearest signals so far of the focus that Android has on making video capture on Android phones increasingly important. For many, videomaking via smartphones is becoming the most central component of the digital lives — innovations such as Eyes Free are part of the future of mobile videomaking.

Understanding Phones: A Brief Overview

From being just a phone receiving calls and transmitting data all over the world before, they have become our inseparable buddy now. Regardless of the era of each new generation of phones, they do a lot of interesting tasks, most importantly taking very high quality pictures and making videos. On the other hand, how much we interact with people or other things in the ancient era without phones is different now. We just need our phones to chat, or work remotely with our teams across the globe, and even playing games online with friends and other players from anywhere in this planet all in one place. As new technological innovation comes on the market, we tend to be more dependent on phones. Therefore, they become ever more vital for modern life.

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