For devices that do not ship with hardware HDR capabilities, the API will use a platform-provided algorithm to generate the HDR photo as long as the hardware supports VPS (variable photo sequence).
Microsoft says the AdvancedCapturedPhoto and AdvancedPhoto APIs are new photo capture APIs for Windows 10 that let apps capture HDR photos on devices with the proper hardware. The namespace contains the client APIs that allow a UWP application to access the color, depth or infrared data of computer vision cameras. Microsoft provided details for only a few of the new APIs.įor example, the Providers APIs (first two) allow independent hardware vendors and original equipment manufacturers to expose depth, infrared and color cameras for computer vision into the Universal Windows Platform, and to designate a camera as participating in Windows Hello face Authentication. There are a handful of new APIs in the SDK, including, ,, ,, and. "If you want to try out the newest features and have the latest bug fixes delivered in a Windows Insider Preview release, this is for you - each release is a snapshot of work in progress, so expect functionality or APIs to be impacted and that final functionality may vary." "When running the latest preview SDK and emulator in your local development environment, your apps will be able to access the latest Windows capabilities and APIs available in the preview build," Microsoft explained in a blog post. The updated Windows 10 SDK Preview matches this new build of Windows 10, says Microsoft. The latest build, 10158, dropped earlier this week. Microsoft has been pushing new Builds of Windows 10 to Windows Insiders on a near-weekly basis. In order to ensure the highest degree of app compatibility, Redmond this week updated the Windows 10 SDK Preview with a handful of new media-focused APIs.
Microsoft is only weeks away from releasing the final build of Windows 10 to OEMs, businesses and consumers.