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Once a picture is taken and compressed into a jpeg (or whatever) why is there a need for any extra support beyond “sending an image”?
Ultra HDR is a new image format available with Android 14 on supported devices & camera. Basically it’s a JPEG image but some additional data added to it when captured on supported devices. With ultra HDR, images can have darker shadows and brighter highlights.
I thought the same thing at first, but it sounds like it is just that you can now view the “Ultra HDR”-ness within the app.
Also,
Google Messages doesn’t strip the gain map metadata from images
Yeah I guess it probably strips unknown data segments from the file for security and privacy, and it would have a whitelist of segment types it will keep
And of course the ability to display them with ultra HDR
What’s an ultra hdr image? Avif? Jxl?
Looks like google doesn’t introduce a new file ending / format. You’ll never know if you’ve got a normal jpg or that hdr thingy. I wonder why they do that intermediate step to avif.
Maybe because they are not yet ready and confident that avif may replace jpg right now.aybe it’s the first step towards avif.
