Google has started rolling out the February update, which enables the Pixel Visual Core on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. This will allow third party developers of applications that access the camera API to tap into the Visual Core hardware and access the HDR+ image processing feature that has been available in the main camera app since the beginning. Without HDR+ and with HDR+ on the Pixel Visual Core The Pixel Visual Core is a custom image processor on the Pixel 2 devices that does hardware acceleration of the various image processing algorithms, primarily the HDR+ effect, which...
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/pixel_2_visual_core_enabled_for_all_apps_with_february_update-news-29479.php
