 For the front facing camera, it uses the parallax information from the front facing camera and IR cameras.The blur effect is applied at the Raw stage before the tone-mapping stage for more realistic SLR-like bokeh effect.In late 2017, with the debut of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, Google introduced AR Stickers, a feature that, using Google's new ARCore platform, allowed the user to superimpose augmented reality animated objects on their photos and videos.